Bigger Families; Faces From the Past

The Cratchits' Christmas Pudding - By Edmund Brock ” But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs Cratchit left the room alone — too nervous to bear witnesses — to take the pudding up, and bring it in. Suppose it should not be done enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the back-yard, and stolen it, while they were merry with the goose: a supposition at which the two young Cratchits became livid! All sorts of horrors were supposed. Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, with a laundress’s next door to that! That was the pudding. In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered: flushed, but smiling proudly: with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into th...

This photo is from  https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/foodanddrink/rory-oconnell-and-darina-allen-pay-tribute-to-christmas-past-464438.html The article is in particular about the two children on the lower right who now work together at Ballymaloe cooking school, and their Christmas memories in their large family.

Amazing and heart-rending multimedia story of Hedwig and Kurt found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/left_behind_in_nazi_vienna .  Another article with more letters, more photos, and more of the story is here: https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/boy-alone .   Grandmother is front centre, her 6 children, some spouses, and 2 grandchildren around her.  Click to see it full size. source:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/left_behind_in_nazi_vienna

This is from Our Canada Magazine, Dec-Jan 2018 issue, in their feature about immigrants. While the photo is of the family when they first traveled with three children, they later had seven more children, all named in the article.   To read the article/story, please enlarge the photos by either clicking on each one or if that doesn't work (depending on your browser/settings) right-click and choose "open in new tab," then go to the picture. Then clicking should enlarge it.

News photo of African American women and children receiving aid from the Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission photographed at home in their kitchen, 1934. Courtesy  Enoch Pratt Free Library, Enoch Barker Collection, Digital Maryland, mdaa152 .   Source:  https://baltimoreheritage.github.io/civil-rights-heritage/overview/1930-1965/  and originally from  http://collections.digitalmaryland.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/mdaa/id/195/rec/1030

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I don't research this family.  If you have any questions, please go to the source link and ask there .  source:  http://www.reedfam.net/OSPictures.html  Marshall and Vesta Reed Family, circa early 1940's.  Children pictured are: Rex, Howard, Irene, Jim, Eleanor, Charles & Maxine. Marshall and Vesta raised over 30 children, including 7 by birth, one adopted, and presumably the rest may have been foster children.

This is from Our Canada Magazine, June-July Issue, 2017, in their feature about immigrants. To read the article/diary, please enlarge the photos by either clicking on each one or if that doesn't work (depending on your browser/settings) right-click and choose "open in new tab," then go to the picture. Then clicking should enlarge it.

Rosa and Giovanni (John) Casorso family with 8 of their 9 children. Source: book: The Casorso Story, A Century of Social History in the Okanagan Valley , by Victor Casorso Rosa and Giovanni (John) Casorso family with 7 of their 9 children. Source: book:  The Casorso Story, A Century of Social History in the Okanagan Valley , by Victor Casorso Also seen in lower quality at:  https://hubpages.com/education/Immigrant-mother-saved-by-the-bell The above link has a very interesting story of Rosa travelling from Italy to B.C. in 1884 with three young children, camping much of the time along the way, following a bell!

I don't research this family.  If you have any questions, please go to the source link   Source:  https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/your-news/martin-county/reader-submitted/2018/05/16/large-families-martin-county-tuckers-historical-vignettes/617504002/ Taken about 1942.  For more about this family, see the article at the link above.

from a US Census news release, as seen at https://dublinlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/u-s-census-launches-1940-census-web-page/ and other places.

Source:  https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/social-effects-of-the-war/ Japanese Americans awaiting “relocation,” Dorothea Lange, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, May 8, 1942 : Hayward, California. Members of the Mochida family awaiting evacuation bus. Identification tags are used to aid in keeping the family unit intact during all phases of evacuation. Mochida operated a nursery and five greenhouses on a two-acre site in Eden Township. He raised snapdragons and sweet peas. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

Source:  https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/mrs-dorothy-langohr-introduces-her-newest-son-three-day-old-news-photo/515013500 Dorothy Langohr introduces her newest son, three-day-old Douglas, to his brothers, all eight of them, in their Detroit home. The lineup (from left): Dean, 11; Donald, 10; Richard, 9; Ronald, 8; Robert, 7; Lawrence, 6; Thomas, 4; and Raymond, 2.

Source:  https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/world/europe/duchess-deborah-cavendish-dies.html

Source:    Family in Front of Farmhouse in Mountain View, California.  Members of the Shibuya family are pictured at their home before evacuation. The father and the mother were born in Japan and came to this country in 1904. At that time the father had $60 in cash and a basket of clothes. He later built a prosperous business of raising select varieties of chrysanthemums which he shipped to Eastern markets under his own trade name. Six children in the family were born in the United States. National Archives Identifier:  536037  

11 of the 12 children of Candace Amelia Durman and George Washington Fry.  Frank Frye ran away from home as a boy and had not been found at the time this photograph was taken. The picture is annotated that Frank fits in the empty space between Wayland and Noah; however, Frank's birthdate was Mar. 3, 1897. Two daughters died before this picture was taken, Opal Fry born Oct. 22, 1904, died Oct. 22, 1904 and Pearl Wave Fry-Wise born June 9, 1884 died Aug. 23, 1923. From  https://www.ancientfaces.com/photo/frye-family/369855 .  See there for names and any more details.  I don't know anything else about this family.

Please go to the links to see the photos full size and full-focus.   Weston and Mary LaMunyon family Six sisters in the W . C. Graves family Unknown family and farmstead (8 children)

These are photos from a book I got today from a trip into the biggest town in the area.  B & B Used Books has a bin by the door for free books, and in it was this one, The Brewster Story: From Pack Train to Tour Bus, by E.J. Hart.  It's the story of the family who started the business of tours in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.  As usual click on them to see them full size.

Electioneering in Georgia -- a candidate pleading for a mountaineer's vote SOURCE

I don't research these families or know anything about them.   For any available information, follow the SOURCE links given.  Thank you. Busa family.        SOURCE    from  http://whitakergenealogy.us/iltrails/ Catherine Heaton Caldwell (center) and children about 1893 Joseph Hill and Ann Addy with their large family.    SOURCE SOURCE   Blaymire family: Back row: George, William (Jnr), William (Snr), Joseph. Front row: Anne, Phyllis, Miss Hay, Mary. Photo from Anne Thompson Golden Wedding of Sarah and Gustaf Bary, 1913        SOURCE Standing:  Gustav,   Edward, John,   Charles, Alice (Gilmour), William,   Albert, James. Sitting: Sarah (Slow), Mary (Dowling), Gustaf,   Sarah, Anne (Brydon), Magdalena (Higgins) Photo from Elva Lynch

This is my mom's family, about 1949. Mom is the little girl in the front. Her name is Margaret. Behind her are the three boys next oldest, Clarence, Rodney, and Wayne. In the back from left to right are Doreen, Laura (the oldest) Al (Alfred), and Eileen, and then is their mother, Minnie, holding baby Geraldine (Gerry), and then father George. My grandmother Minnie had MS, and passed away when my mother was 13 and Gerry was 9. A few short months later Gerry also died, from a heart problem never properly diagnosed. So my mom lost both her mother and her closest sister in the space of a few months. This is the only photo that I know of with the whole family together.

SOURCE: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/csas.03150/

Source:  http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/ancestors/locke-john.htm From the above link (along with more detailed history) we learn that John Locke of Aylesbury was born in 1823.  He married Caroline Gibbs (b 1825) in 1849. Pictured are they and 12 of their 14 children. Eliza John (died as a child) Henry George Caroline Arthur Martha Sarah Letitia (Lily) John Robert Frances Alice (died as a baby) Walter

Family of Albert P. and Bessie Woolman, source link Left to right, back row : Parents Bessie Mable (Monroe)Woolman and Albert P. Woolman, then Evelyn, Harold S., Vera, and Hershel A. Woolman   Front row: Helen, Thelma, and Mary Woolman. Family of Jess Woolman & Pearl (Cooley)Woolman,  source Front row left to right: Leona May, Pearl, Jess, Amanda Ophelia. Back row: Melvin Eli, Alvin Edward, Viola Lucille, Alfred Aaron, & Everett Ervin. source Clifford and  Bessie(Woolman) Wells & family Back Row--Calvin, Allen, Mina, Harley, and Milton Front Row--Bessie, Sharon, Sylvia, and Clifford Wells.

I LOVE stairstep family photos. The Stevens  Family c. 1909  source link From right to left:  Frank L. Stevens,  Julia Belle Stevens, Hugh, Ralph, Cecil, Kenneth and  Oren. Photo is courtesy of Mimi  Steven                                               Stevens' Family, c.1927    source link Back row:  Kenneth, Hugh, and Ralph. Middle row:  Ida (w/o Kenneth), Gladys, Mable (w/o Hugh), Dessie (w/o Ralph) Front row: Lyrell (w/o Cecil), Frank Stevens, Julia Belle Stevens, Cecil. Photo courtesy of Mimi Stevens

No apologies, as bloggers go through seasons and this has been a long one as I concentrated on another blog, but I still love these photos and plan to start posting here again. I don't know how often it will be as I have to get photos organized in order to do it! I will start by linking through some photos from other sites that I have found. Harada Family, source link source link source link Alexander Alberg with (clockwise from top) Walter, Arthur, Ellen, Lillian, Mable and Esther Skoglund, around 1898 in Lake Florida source link source link Joseph J. and Lucy Osterbauer family.  Back: Irene (Osterbauer) Arcand (right), Robert Osterbauer, Morris Osterbauer, Margaret (Osterbauer) Olson, and James Osterbauer. Front: Joseph John Osterbauer, Joseph D. Osterbauer, Lucy Osterbauer, and Ben Osterbauer. source link 15 of the 18 children born to Agnes and Edward Eager ( 8 of the 9 boys and 7 of the 9 girls).  The other 3 children died very y...