A photo of Thomas and Mary Ashenden with their car. Found at a Texas antique store with other photos of the Ashenden family of Massachusetts. Written on the back "Uncle Tom Newby + Aunt Mary + their car". This photo was probably taken in England
Mary Ann (Newby) Ashenden was born in 1840 in Thanet, Kent County England, and died at age 72 years old in July 1913 in Medway. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Ann (Newby) Ashenden.
Thomas Comfort Ashenden was born on October 6, 1838 in Kent County England. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Comfort Ashenden.
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
From Karl Benz in 1885 to Elon Musk's Tesla, cars have always been a passion for some. See the evolution of car technology and the types of cars that caught our fancy in the past.
In the 1880's, in an effort to invent an automobile that could be used every day - rather than just a fire pumper or a locomotive for special use - inventors tried steam, gasoline, or electricity as a...
England has such a rich history that has spread across various countries and across the globe: This collection of historical photos highlights the English people, and shows the locations from which many of our families came.
England, one part of the United Kingdom, was formed as a unified kingdom in about the 900s CE.
The kingdom went on to become a dominant European power after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The English ...
I love antique photographs. In addition to sharing old photos of my family, I am also going through my collection of "antique store people". They've been sitting in a storage tub in my back room much too long and maybe some of their families will be able to find them here.
If I'm able to identify the people in the photo, I upload it not only to AncientFaces, but also to Ancestry, FamilySearch, and Find-A-Grave. If the person in the picture is a military veteran, the photo also goes on Fold3. I figure that the more places I upload these pictures, the greater the chance that a relative will be able to find them.