Bigger Families; Faces From the Past

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...