As I begin to mature, squinting over the top of my reading glasses at ever encroaching senescence, I become forgetful. As far as I can see, I never posted a family image recently acquired. To rectify that, and by way of annotation, I quote an unabridged extract from Aunt Hetty’s tapes of 1960:
“I’ve got a photograph of mother and father on their honeymoon – you should see it dear. I’ll save it for you to see; it’s beautiful. Mother in one of those dresses with a bustle. She has curls, long curls, and of course she’s standing up – and father’s sitting down, you know, with a bowler hat on. O it’s beautiful.”
The subjects are great-aunt Lucy Kahn and her new husband, David Matthews, both originally from Liverpool and later living on the Wallasey peninsular. Lucy of course is grandfather Gaston Victor’s younger sister. The photo was taken in 1882, soon after their wedding, when Lucy would have been 21 and David would have been about 24. Their first daughter, Aunt Hetty (or Esther as she was given at birth) was born the next year. David had a successful shop fitting and joinery business in the Liscard area of Merseyside.
Thanks again to Kirsty for providing the information.
Kahn Family Genealogy 
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