East Cleveland Image Archive

Georgina Thurlow, Mrs. Wilson’s grandmother, would only have been about two or three years old when this photograph was taken at Boulby Barns.  Sally (Sarah Hannah), one of  her sisters was eight years older.

Thanks to Mrs. J. Wilson for the photograph and information.

Boulby Barns Farm is on the old road, near the top of the bank, between Skinningrove and Staithes. The Thurlow family gathered for a special occasion in about 1907.   Even the little girls are wearing wonderful hats. 

Mrs. Wilson’s grandmother, Georgina Thurlow is third from the left on the back row.  Two of her sisters, Lucy and Sarah are standing in the doorway.  The other four sisters and their mother are sitting on the chairs, (from left), …2.Mary Ann with Marjorie, 3.Bessie with Lucy, ……5.Isabel Thurlow (their mother), 6.Barbara, and Ada with Billy at the end.  As Owen says, Amy (a grandchild) is the young girl standing between Barbara and Ada.  

Can anyone tell us what the occasion was, or name any other members of the family?

Thanks to Owen Rooks for the following information:

I believe that the girl (wearing the rather fetching large white hat) standing 2nd from right on the front row is Amy Thurlow. Amy became a close friend of my mother in about 1920 when for a time they were neighbours at Boulby- my mother (before she married) may have worked at Boulby Barns. Many years later, Amy shared a home in Park Terrace, Loftus with Florence (Flo) Fletcher and they both shared a life long friendship with my mother who died in 1973. In the late 1940’s, Amy and Flo ran a corner shop in Tees Street, East Loftus.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

This photograph of the seven sisters was taken at Boulby Barns in about 1905.  That was the year in which both Mary Ann and Bessie got married.

Ada, Sarah Hannah (Sally) and Barbara are standing at the back.  Mary Ann, Bessie and Lucy are sitting on the chairs.  Georgina, the youngest, is sitting on the ground in front.

Thanks to Mrs. J. Wilson for the photograph and information.

I had made a mistake with the names.  Gordon Main has been in touch to tell us that ”if you look carefully I notice that they are all wearing the same dresses as in the large family photo so I suspect it was taken on the same day.  Mary Ann  is in the dark dress on the front row in both cases.  In the family picture she is nursing my Aunt Marjorie as a large baby . As it is June/July (see the roses) this makes Marjorie about 1 year old which dates the picture to summer 1907.”  Many thanks to him for this information, as I can now name the sisters in the large family group.

A lovely studio portrait of the two ladies, but I don’t know anything else about them.

The lady standing on the left could be Isabel Thurlow of Boulby Barns Farm.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

This family group was taken in about 1910 at Boulby Barns Farm.  John and Isabel Thurlow are seated, second right and second left, surrounded by their two sons and seven daughters.  Georgina is third from the left, at the back, and the child seated in front is Amy, one of their granddaughters.  Can someone tell us any more about the family and why they have all got together for the photograph?

I now know that the daughters were Mary Ann, Bessie, Lucy Sarah, Barbara, Ada and Georgina. 

Thanks to Anne Codling, great granddaughter of Ada, for her comment – the two sons would be Henry and Christopher.  John and Isabel had a third son, Edwin, who had died in 1881.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)