I have a photo i believe taken 1880-1900 of 33 young boys and one man. At the bottom left of the photo it says Geo W Holden(presumabley the photographer) Bottom right are the words PENNYORE HOUSE SWANSEA,and on the topof the card there is a ribbon which says Pen Aury Calon Wir. Can anyone give me a hint as to what this all means Thanks Alannis 54
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Hi I also have a photo as you described but with 31 mainly young boys with a couple of young girls and a woman (teacher/nurse) - i also am unable to identify the people in the picture.
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Hi there,
Surely its a school photo. Pen Aury Calon Wir translates as 'A golden head and true heart' so perhaps the school motto. I presume one of your relatives was a pupil?
Amelia
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Hi thanks for the reply,the photo was found in my mother in laws belongings when she died.As far as we know she had no connection to Wales,i am researching my husbands grandfather but he was from Bridgnorth and became a trawlerman in Hull.I would like to find out the significance of the photo Regards Alannis
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Hi thanks for the reply.The photo was found in my mother in laws belongings when she died we have no idea where it came from as her father was from Bridgend and became a trawlerman in Hull I would love to solve the mystery! Regards Alannis
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Hi - it's probably pure coincidence but my family are from Hull as well - as was the you lad who I believe is in the photo. Do you know if it was a charitable school at all as I cannot see that my ancestors would have had enough money to send to a private school?
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Thankyou for your reply,i found this photo when clearing my mother-in-laws house after she died and as yet don't know the significance to the family tree. Now i do have a date,many thanks alannis54
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Hi, just to add to the Pennoyre House Swansea / HULL connection. I also have in my possession a similar photograph as described. Picture shows 35 boys plus stern looking man in a bowler hat. My Great Grandfather George Ernest GRANTHAM is seated in the middle row. Pic circa 1890s. I'm reliably informed that he spent time in an Orphanage - begs the question is Pennoyre House an Orphanage or a 'home' within an Orphanage? To add to the emerging HULL connection theme, whilst George Ernest GRANTHAM was to the best of my knowledge not from HULL but Lincolnshire? He later married settled and died in HULL where the majority of the family remain to this day. The HULL mystery / connection appears to continue? If I can be of any further assistance, more then happy to help, or if anyone can add further light more then happy to hear from you.
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Hi, I, too, have a Geo.W.Holden photograph of 30 boys and I think one young teacher with Pen Aury Calon Wir at the top and Pennoyre House, Swansea at the bottom right. The photograph was in Grace BRAY's photo album where she has written, 'My brother Charlie at Hull School' and Hull is where she and the family lived, although Grace came to Australia to marry Charles ROBERTSON. The boy in the photo is Charles Grimston BRAY. His sisters Grace and Edith were teachers before they married and he also had two other sisters, Annie Gertrude and Ethel Eugenie. His father Charles BRAY was a Head & Collector of Gas A/ts and also a Merchant's Clerk, a Clerk of the Deacons Court of Holderness Road English Presbyterian Church, and he died at 33 years of appendecitis with a probate of £200. Charles Grimston himself died in China in 1923. Perhaps that background of one of the boys attending that school gives some clues about the school.
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