Photo of English woman in gown of wonderfully draped fabric. 1800's. Studio photo by S. Grey, 144 Western Road Brighton.
A mystery family member! Have you seen this woman in your family photo album?
This photo was a treasured keepsake of my great-grandmother, Louisa Ann PALMER VALLIS, originally from Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire England. Other English ancestral surnames include: PICKERING,
TAYLOR, HEDGES and CUTTER. Our VALLIS family line is also from England. John, husband of Louisa, was born in Middlesex/Poplar-Millwall.
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Old photos of different types of transportation - trains, planes, automobiles, and more - as well as the people who piloted them.
Of air, water, and land, only flying through the air had eluded humans for millennia. Wheels on carts as well as river boats are known to have been used since 3500 B.C. But since that time - especiall...
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*** 18th & 19th century Middlesex and Buckinghamshire England family roots. Surnames include, VALLIS, TAYLOR, PALMER, CUTLER, PICKERING, HEDGES and SCRIVEN. Known 1800's Middlesex roots are specific to Poplar/Millwall. Buckinghamshire connections include the areas of Winslow, Swanbourne, Stewkley, Wing and Leighton Buzzard.
*** U.S. family roots include ROSS and ROMAINE families from New York who went westward to settle in Kansas and Missouri.
***German Russian family roots include BOHL, KAHLER, HUCK, SPREIER, SCHULDEIS, SCHULTHEIS, FEUERSTEIN,GAS, JAEGER, EIKMEIER surnames. Our family immigrated from Russia; some family members came to the U.S., settling in the midwest. Other family members immigrated to Argentina.