Some Answers

It's a dark, rainy October night on the east coast of Canada - "starless and bible-black" - with a warm south wind through my open windows, and I would like to carry on with Dylan Thomas and more videos of Welsh choirs, but that would get less and less interesting very quickly for anyone following this, except for me.

Right.

Let me begin to get some things posted here that have been related to me recently by assorted relatives around the globe in answer to some questions that have come up in regard to the Postcard Project.

First of all, and most fortuitously, it turns out that we have another picture of Isabella Bathsheba and Gangan after all.  In the photo above, Isabella is sitting in the charabanc with Alice Greed on the left side and May Adams, Uncle Len's first wife on the right (the one he scandalously divorced, apparently, and the nieces and nephews were told that she had died quite young, of TB).  This picture may well have been taken before the divorce.  All we can know at this point is that it would have been in or before 1926, because Isabella died in January 1927, and the leaves are still on the trees in the photograph.  Uncle Len left for Australia in 1921, so it was probably before that, unless May remained a part of the family despite scandal.

Next.  The pictures of Gramfie's cousin George and the one of the 8 children lined up vonTrapp-style are still a bit of a mystery, insofar as I do not know how they fit in on the Greed side.  But, I have done a little research and it looks as though I should be able to work it out when I sit down and put it all in order, make some deductions, and check everyone against the records.

           

The picture of "cousin Jim" is Thomas Adams' son - Tom being the surviving child of the George and Elizabeth union (that still unresolved mystery), before George married Isabella.

No one knows or can guess at the picture "Taken at the Assembly Rooms Yeovil in the small balcony".  Was it merely a photo-postcard to remember the occasion of a night out, or was one of the Princes Orchestra members a friend or relative?  We know the date was 1926, that's all.

I have stories to write out as well, things that I've been told that provide some substance to the names and the few pictures we have left of people, and I will get to those in due course.  Interestingly, one of Gramfie Greed's cousins was a photographer, so there is a chance that somewhere in the world, there is a descendant with a whole treasure chest of family pictures, or at least, negatives.

My great-grandfather on my father's side was also a photographer, and a member of the Medici Society, so perhaps there is a small chance of finding someone with all his pictures as well.

Rwyf wrth fy modd gorau Cymraeg.   I can't resist - one more video: the Reverend Eli Jenkins prayer, from Under Milkwood,  set to music.