These are the oldest photos we have. The first picture - I have no idea who the two women on the left are. The woman standing on the right, in profile, is Julia Walsh, the mother of Edward Walsh who was Catharine's (Kitty) dad.Now, if you look closely at this top picture (click on it so you can get a better look), you'll see two girls in the background; they're Julia's daughters. (It wasn't until I scanned the photo that I saw them!) The girl with the big bow on her head in the doorway is Marion (and today, in fact, St. Patricks Day, is the one-hundred and seventh anniversary of the day of her birth. She used to send birthday cards and she always signed her name in green ink.) The other girl, poking her head out from behind the first woman, is Ethel. She became a nurse and never married.
The second photo, as I said - I'm clueless as to the identity of the first two women. I have a feeling they are related in some way - mother and sister of Julia maybe, but I have absolutely no proof. We know the two girls and Julia, of course. The boys, it's a bit sketchy. Since I know that Ethel was born in 1897 and Marion in 1901, I would guess them to be around 13 and 9 respectively, dating the photo at about 1910. Okay, so follow me here...Great-grandpa Edward was born in 1900, so I think he's the older boy sitting down. They had two other brothers, Joseph and Francis, born in '03 and '06. So the smaller boy has to be Francis, about four years old and who knows where Joseph is?
And by the way, according to the 1910 census reports, at this point they're living in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania before they moved to Camden, New Jersey.
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How fitting to post Aunt Marion's "coming out" photo on March 17th. As you mentioned, she strongly identified with her Irish heritage and, as I recall, ALWAYS carried a pen with green ink. She also worked at Curtis Publishing Co., in Camden, N.J.,and for Christmas ALWAYS gave me a book. These are two facts I never appreciated at the time.
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