This post will feature some photos I've just received, and they are pretty old!
The {I want to say costumes!!} styles of dress are unlike any other pictures I have! Makes me feel so fuddy-duddy.
Wouldn't make this lady (right) feel underdressed, though!
Whilst off on a tangent, how about looking at this Mr. Sennett?
Okay, back to Lizzie...
Elizabeth Ann Sennett
(born 1888 - died 1971) is my Grandmother's Mother. More modern photos of us can be seen in this post here.
It's worth showing this image again, as it's lovely:
Another shot from the same visit to the studio. A Beauty!
Now here's an image that we know dates from January 1921. I wonder why it was taken then??
She's a little plumper in the face, d'you think she's younger than in the previous image?
More fur on display in an older shot here of Lizzie - (a good likeness, apparently).
As a balance to the furry images with all those legs (!) here's a few anti-fur trade cartoons.
Try also one on this page here and here!
Found one more photo of Lizzie - here.
Here, below, is Lizzie's mother - Francis Fitzpatrick, nee Ranson. (She's on the left with her two younger {I'm presuming} sisters, completely unknown up till now!). Detective hat on! The middle sister has a wedding ring, and will probably no longer be a Ranson. The sister on the right doesn't seem to have a ring, so she still will be a Ranson. She would look quite different as a widow, I guess? All in black for the rest of your life, wasn't it - in those days?
They could, of course, also be sisters-in-law.
They were born at Seaham Harbour {Frances was born 1854}, which makes searching their records tricky for techie details we don't need or want to understand. I'll get there, it just may take a while. If anyone out there knows further details on the wider Ranson family, I'd love more clues as it's a bit of a dark cave just now. So you can imagine it was lovely to put a face to the name Frances & find she has 2 sisters!
I know Lizzie kept in touch with her Family - Grandad remembers "When Lizzie had a few pence spare she would be hopping on a bus and away to Sunderland or Saltburn"
Now for some images of both sets of Mary's grandparents (Lizzie's parents & in-laws).
Thomas & Francis Fitzpatrick are below left here. He was a Stonemason, born in Ireland. They married in 1882 when they were aged 30 & 28 (fairly old for those days?) and settled in Tudhoe.
Lizzie looks a little older here? Unlike the others, lovely shots of healthy greens & sweet peas (?) in of garden behind them - they haven't tripped off to the studio! Our Lizzie was one of eight children, so far as we know.
Lizzie married James Sennett in 1913.
James' parents, William & Jane Sennett are on the right side here. They came from the Bishop Auckland area of Durham. There is a little confusion over William's wife's name. Gran remembered a half-brother James, and felt that William was widowed at a young age & then remarried. The 1901 Census records his wife as Anne.
By the way, the rustic bench seen in the studio shot of Frances above, can also be seen in the {wedding/engagement??} images of young Lizzie & James (in this post here). Perhaps they were taken at the same time?
Lizzie & James had three children, Jack & Austin, and Mary (my Grandmother - the youngest, born in 1923 when Lizzie would've been ~35).
Next we see some images of Elizabeth when she was a little older.
In this photo, we see Lizzie Sennett with her oldest child Austin (boy scout hat!) and her youngest child, Mary. Perhaps Jack is the photographer, and that's why there are so few of him?
A lovely photo of James & Lizzie Sennett, in their garden.
In this photo, we see lots of Sennetts;
{Top row, l-r} Tot Sennett, Lizzie, Austin, James Sennett.
{lower row} Mary, Molly's son Billie Clareheugh, holding young Tina, Eric.
Here's a holiday snap from Southport of Lizzie Sennett on the right, with (left to right) Tina, Marian, Josie and Mary. Lizzie is particularly remembered for being an lovely Grandma.
There was a little confusion about exactly when Lizzie died, so Mum asked the Durham Crematorium to check their records, which they kindly did. She died on the 11th April, 1971 and was cremated on the 14th. If you look back to the 4 Generations shot at the beginning of this post - we know that this was taken on the 18th March, 1971 (Mary & Eric's 25th Wedding Anniversary party.) She managed to live long enough to meet her first Great-Grandchild!To return to Lizzie's mother, Frances (Ranson) Fitzpatrick - well it seems that she died in the 3rd quarter of the year 1929, at the age of 75. Her record on FreeBMD lists her as Frances A. Fitzpatrick.
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