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Finally after many months of 'going to' I actually did take some of the family photographs (mainly from the ASHFORTH line) back to my mother for identification. Over the next few weeks I will scan the originals and add them to my gallery.

My mother identified this photograph of my great grand aunt Alice ASHFORTH, daughter of William Henry ASHFORTH 1851-1899 and Ellen ASHFORTH (née Ellen TOMLINSON) 1847-.

My records show Alice ASHFORTH was born in the year 1891 at Cuthbert Bank Road, Sheffield, Yorkshire. She was baptised on the 7th of October, 1891, by D. Hughes at St John the Baptist Church, Owlerton, Sheffield. Her parents are named as Ellen and William. William's profession being that of a 'File Cutter'.

This photograph from my mother's collection is of Noelene Eleanor, Donald Raynor, Trevor Martin and Harry Ivan (Tim) WILLIAMSON. These are the four children from Henry James WILLIAMSON's marriage to Clara ASHFORTH 1895-1932. Clara died at Wellington, New Zealand on the 28th April 1932.

I originally posted this photograph with an article regarding the death in Sheffield of Douglas Raynor (Dion) WILLIAMSON. The original caption read "Noeleen, Dion, Trevor and Ivan Williamson". Click here to view the article. I was under the impression Dion was the second child from the left but in actual fact it is Donald.

This photograph of Florence ASHFORTH (née Florence FLOWERS) and Aunt Marjorie, Marjorie GREEN (née Marjorie ELLIS) was probably taken in the early 1960s. I'm not sure of the location though it certainly is not 4 Hawksley Road, Sheffield 6, where at this time Florence lived. The photograph may well have been taken at Aunt Marjorie's house on the Wisewood Estate, Sheffield.

This photograph of my great grandparents Mary Maria CARTER (née Mary Maria MAPLETHORPE) and Joseph CARTER was probably taken circa 1960 outside the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch which stands on the junction of Trent Port Road with High Street, Marton, Lincolnshire.

Mary Maria married twice, her first marriage to Samuel DIXON took place at the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch on the 15th of September, 1897. Samuel DIXON died from Tuberculosis on the 20th of November 1906 at Kexby, Lincolnshire, at the relatively young age of 37 years.

While I was busy replying to the contributor of my previous post I was contacted by a grandson of Harriet ALLEN, another sister of my great grandmother Ziller JACKLIN (née Ziller ALLEN). He has provided me with a great deal of information regarding the descendants of Harriet ALLEN together with permission to publish this photograph of Harriet taken about 1918.

I have added the information to my GEDCOM which greatly extends my family tree along yet another branch.

My gg grandmother Ellen ASHFORTH (née Ellen TOMLINSON) is at this moment the family history proverbial 'brickwall'. A quick scan of the 1841, 1851 and 1861 British censuses for Sheffield reveal little more than I already know. According to my mother her grandmother Ellen lived into her nineties and so probably died in the early 1940's. My mother knew her as Leah, yet in various documents she is also known as Ellenor and Helena.

Before I obtained her marriage certificate I carried out some rudimentary research documented in this article, this seemed to indicate her father's name would be William TOMLINSON. When I received her marriage certificate I was surprised, as expressed in this article, to see that her father's name was Samuel TOMLINSON.