My paternal Grandmother and my Aunt

This is just one of the many wonderful old family photos that travelled by sea from England two or three months ago. When my brother died last Christmas, my amazing group of friends went through all the belongings in the house (most of which had belonged to my parents) and carefully put aside every single important, sentimental thing. I now have a whole pile of my father's precious old photo albums (and the various awards that he won for his photography - I love that it was his passion, too) and quite a few of these old family photos, which I'd never seen before. This is the very first one I've scanned. I e-mailed it to my three "kids" yesterday and then decided that they might not be too thrilled to have their Inboxes stuffed with large-sized scans, so I guess I will post an occasional one for them here on Flickr. You never know, maybe some relative somewhere in the world will come across them and find them interesting and helpful.

This photo is of my paternal Grandmother, Alice Gladwell Bassindale and her oldest child, Alice Mary Bassindale (I knew her as Auntie Molly). The only time I remember seeing my (elderly) paternal grandparents was when my Mother, Brother and I stayed with them for a few months when I was about 12 years old, while my Father was searching further afield for a new job.

My paternal Grandma, Alice Gladwell Bassindale (born 1876). Between October 1900 and December 1900 in Middlesex, she married Albert Elijah Bassindale (Timber Merchant), my paternal Grandfather, at Grays Thurrock, Essex. Here, she is with her oldest child, daughter Alice Mary Bassindale (known as Mollie, my Auntie Mollie 1904-1967). Her other children were Tom Carden (my father 1907-1976), Vera Gladwell (1911-?), and Nora Margaret (1915-?).

Information taken from 1891, 1901 and 1911 Census:

3 April 1881 49 Victoria Road, St. Giles, Northampton, Northamptonshire
Census 5 April 1891 Walsall Road, Willenhall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
Census 31 March 1901 8 Rock Terrace, All Saints with St. Peter, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Census 2 April 1911 49 Queen Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire