My Family Album
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Penney Thompson introduces some of her relations
Send us your images for a chance to win £75 to spend on photo restoration. Here Penney Thompson from Wantage in Oxfordshire introduces some of her relations, including two missionary clergymen and a rector
A missionary in India, 1919
My paternal grandfather Harry Loasby was a missionary. You can see him here with my grandmother Brenda and their four children.
Abraham, c1900
My paternal great grandfather Abraham Abbey Yorke was the owner of Camden House Brewery in London.
The Gardiners, 1925
Bertie) My maternal grandfather Herbert ( his Gardiner was a rector. Here he is with wife Ivy and six of their eight children.
Floral portrait
Like her sister Brenda, Daisy (above) went to India and married a missionary clergyman at the beginning of the 20th century.
Family footballer
medal Bertie played for Ipswich Town. This commemorates the 1898/1899 season.
Family christening
In this wonderful photo from 1908 Bertie is standing behind my maternal great grandmother Jane Phelps Gardiner.
Joseph and Jane
My great grandfather Joseph Phelps Gardiner went to Canada as a missionary.
My two grandfathers
When my parents got married at St
Peter’s Church in Brampton, Suffolk, (left) performed the ceremony Bertie while Harry (right) delivered the sermon.
An august occasion
Joseph and Jane’s daughter Augusta married Charles Lowson in 1899.