English Family Photographic Album: Marmaduke and Walter Mathews (1866)


Figure 1.-- Marmaduke ('Mardi' as he was known to the family) was born in 1864 and Walter was born in 1865, they are the eldest children of Marmaduke (a solicitor) and Martha Mathews of Greenwich, London. The boys are dressed in matching velvet jackets with small white collars and a kind of tassle neckwear. Image courtesy of the MD collection.

Marmaduke ('Mardi' as he was known to the family) was born in 1864 and Walter was born in 1865, they are the eldest children of Marmaduke (a solicitor) and Martha Mathews of Greenwich, London. The boys are dressed in matching velvet jackets with small white collars and a kind of tassle neckwear. They wear skirts or dresses, it is difficult to tell which. While the boys wear matching outfits, curiously the stripped band on the skirts is slightly different. The boys also wear pantalettes. In this photo they appear to have some kind of band keeping their hair up. At the time of the 1881 census both boys were at school but living at home.









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