McMichen, Gillespie, Longo families

Click the pictures to see them bigger. These photos are from the Ancient Faces website, so as always when the photo is from there, if you would like more information, please go to the link and contact the contributor there. I do not have contact with them, nor do I know any more about the families, or research them.


The first picture is found at http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/408519

This is the William Harvey McMichen family, including his mother Jane Armstrong McMichen, wife Sarah Caroline and 10 of their 11 children. According to the contributor to the Ancient Faces site, this should be their home in Georgia.




Here is the Gillespie family, from Ancient Faces website, at http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/408509

For names see the photo itself, or go to the link.




This is the Longo family, from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/408346 The photo is not high quality so don't bother clicking on it.
They are:
Top row, from left to right: Nicola, Donata, Giuseppe, Angela, Giovanni, and Grazia
Second row, from left to right: Assunta, Vito, mother Francesca, father Rocco , and Vincenzo. The little boy with the father is Alfredo
Front: Palma, Cosimo

The children above look kind of like a posed 1-room school group, but so many of them look VERY alike! The boys in overalls must be twins and a brother, and most of the others look so alike as to be siblings to them also.

Some new pictures!

These photos are from a CD collection of photos that I purchased. "There are no commercial rights given or implied with this product. This CD cannot be copied or resold, and must be used solely for personal use."

So don't use the pictures for commercial use, please!

Burns family: Dad, Mom, 13 sons, and one daughter!

Up until my last child, I had one lone girl among the boys, too, though I don' t pretend that we had the proportions of the Burns family.

The photo is from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406809
(See note on -> side of blog about this site. ) There's no more information about the family on the site, but the submitter was a Burns.

Click on the photo to see it larger.

Power Family

This is the M. Gordon & Georgia A. Power family taken in 1906. See http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406227 for source.

Back row: Noah Clifford, Robert (Bob), Dillard (Dill)

Middle row: Martha Gordon Power, and Georgia Alice Trotter Power

Front row: Garnett G., Otha, and Odessa

Weisenberger family

This is mother Anna Marie (or Mary Anna) and her children.



For more details on family history and names, go to the source at http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/375325

Kleinknight children, 1906

These eight beautiful children are :
Back: Mary Ellen, Charles F., Jemima Elizabeth, and Bessie G.

Front: Leah Grace, Chalmer Edward, Clendon, and Lydia C.

They are the children of Andrew & Jemimah (Schoch) Kleinknight.

Photo from http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/406407

Fabulous old-time video clip of family of 18

I just LOVE this! Through Google, I found a business who sells video clips to advertisers etc for big money, but you can see short previews. Here is a 70-second clip of the Peerbolte family.

"In 1929, the Peerbolte family of Illinois claimed the world record for the largest family of 16 children. "

This is just a thumbnail.

Click on the link below to go to the page where you can see the video clip.

http://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/54612/AmericaAmericanAmericansUSUSUnitedStatesSouth

Make sure you see the part where they get out of their "18-seater limousine" which would be a regular-sized car now, only it fits all 18 as no doubt they didn't have the seating regulations we have now. It looks like an optical illusion to see them all file out of it one by one!

Nitsche family with 8 of 15 children; Dainerd family

This is the Nitsche family with their first 8 children. They had 7 more after. For the source, and the names, see http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/4051/Nitschejacobsen.htm

Here's a related family, from the same webpage as above. Perhaps someone will find family members here if they didn't already find them there.

Podmore Family

From the Stables family history website, at: http://www.stableshistory.co.uk/darfield.htm

The picture above shows Charles and Mary Ann Podmore's (née Stables) family and was taken around 1901. The people shown are:
Back Row (Left-to-Right): Elizabeth Podmore, Charles Podmore, Ethel Podmore, James William Podmore, Betsy Miriam Podmore.
Middle Row (Left-to-Right): Lilian Podmore, Mary Ann Podmore (née Stables), John Henry Bernard Podmore, Florence Podmore, Charles Podmore.
Front Row (Left-to-Right): Doris Podmore (on knee), Edith Hilda Podmore (on floor).

Ethel, Elizabeth, James William and Charles Jnr were Mary Ann's step-children from Charles's previous marriage to Sarah Richardson Townend. The others were her own children.

Lobsinger Family

from http://www.tradersbend.com/lnl/Newsletters/LNLV1N3.html

Quote: "Luke William Lobsinger Family: Luke was one of the sons of Joseph L. Lobsinger who wasn't involved in the Lobsinger Foundry in Mildmay, Ontario. He left home in 1913 and moved to Lake Worth, FL., where he raised his family. Luke was an artist, house painter and interior decorator. Some of his murals are preserved today in homes and apartments in Lake Worth. Shown are, from left, Luke, Jr., Luke, Sr., Phillip A., Catherine, Margaret Ann, wife Mary Jane Ross, and John Ross. Barbara Jane had not yet arrived when this picture was taken."

Photos from a visitor

A visitor sent me some photos.

There is no family information whatsoever, and I don't know where the person got the photos.

Clayton family, Widnes, England

This is a photograph of the Clayton family not long after they moved to Widnes from Liverpool, which was then in the county of Lancashire. It was taken in 1910. From http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/405859

Twillia family

Taken in 1904. Pictured are Madonna, Anna, Martha, William, Austin, Irl, Clara, Ina,, and Austin, Jr. From http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/405785

Several families named Wilson

These are all from Ancient Faces.



This is the family of William H. Wilson and Sarah Ellen Wilkerson, taken 1925.
http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/402477





Taken 1890. William H. and Sarah C. (Penisten) Wilson with family; their children, order not known, are Orlah, Sophia, Frank, John, Mattie, Talmadge, Otto, and Charles. http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/366530







Taken 1887. Family of James Wilson and wife Margaret Carson Wilson. The family started in Hancock Co., West Virginia and moved to Northwest Missouri (Cameron, Missouri in DeKalb Co.) http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/352165






Taken 1915. In age order, these are: Nancy, 15, Josie, 14, Elza, 9, Elmer, 7, Elva, 5, Elsie, 2, all Wilson. Quite the name choices!

I like how they all have little posies. Oh, except for the oldest boy--it looks like he might have thrown his down! http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/354050

Tedder family

This picture is from the Ancient Faces web site, at http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/405499 The contributor to that site writes that it was taken in 1924, and lists the people as:

James Henry Tedder & Lela Irene Elmore Tedder and their children, in Beaver Co, OK
Back, left to right: baby Glenn, James Henry, Lela, Irene, Grady & Granville (boys close in age maybe reversed order here)
Front: Howard, Melvin & Herbert (last two close in age maybe reversed order here)

Gilliam Family, great story

This photo is from Ancient Faces web site. It was taken May 1942.
The person who contributed the photo writes:
"This is one of the last get togethers of the Arville and Mary Gilliam Family in Kentucky. Arville, laid-off school teacher, has taken a war industry job in Dayton, Ohio and has been commuting with his family on desolate Brushy Creek. In March 1943, mom and five children packed everything we owned and rode the train to Cincinnatti and on to our new home in Dayton Ohio - where we lived above and behind an abandoned barber shop..."

The children are named Jean, Richard, Thomas, Dorsey, and Patsy.

Deel family

Here is grandma Clarissa ("Clarie") Deel, 6 children, and their families. The five women surrounding their mother in the middle row are daughters Olive, Sarah, Cora or Myra, Inise, and Grace. Third from left in the back row is son Orville. For more names, see the source at http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/405487 The photo is from family research and photo-sharing site Ancient Faces.

Wingate siblings

This photo from Ancient Faces is labelled "Wingate Siblings," though it does look like Dad there in the middle.

From http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/photo/405412