A search, on Google, for “Stanley Appleyard” uncovered the following Stanley Appleyard Christmas card on Ebay. I recognised the image from one of Stanley’s photo albums previously scanned. Currently the card can still be seen on Ebay (along with the price paid for it). The following show the scanned Christmas card, the photo image on the card has been replaced with the matching clearer image from the photo album:
John L Appleyard presumed to be son of Joseph Appleyard late of Austhorpe hall (1851). Address of John is Birk Lodge, Conisbrough.
Finding this card on Ebay raised the significance of the album photo showing Stanley and his brother Frank. Frank had already been identified from study of the photo albums. Who was the central female in the picture? Stanley created a Christmas card using the image and sent the card to family implies the female must be one of Stanley’s sisters. The candidates are Margaret and Marion. Margaret was born June 1889 and would have been sixteen in the photo – Marion was born June 1891 and would have been aged fourteen. I think it is Marion in the photo.
There is still work to do confirm this – there are clues in the photos of Austhorpe Hall and Bridlington (links below). In addition there are other photos showing Marian and Margaret and other women. Identifying these women is an ongoing challenge:
The sample photo above, dated the following year 1906, shows the problems. All, other than possibly the central figure appear in the Austhorpe Hall and Bridlington previously posted. There is work to do tracking down who they all are and then updating the posts to reflect that. This is still very much work in progress. See links below for other images.
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