Telling stories from photographs

Old images give up their secrets For anyone fortunate enough to have photographs of family members going back multiple generations, identifying people can be almost impossible. Fortunately some images have names on them and others are recognisable from later pictures....

Todd family photos

The photographs on this page were mostly taken around Edinburgh, Scotland, either in the late 1800s or the early 1900s. The original collection in which they were found includes images of both James Silver and Janet Todd along with other family members. Many of the...

Janet Todd (1864-1939)

Janet Todd (1864-1939) married James Silver and they had six children (see below), only four of whom survived to adulthood. After courting in Scotland, they moved to Australia where they married in Brisbane before settling in southwest Queensland at Kooroongarra....