Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Family pictures from the west of England







I typed 'Baynham' in the web browser as I am want to do from time to time and picked up a website for some family pictures of Baynhams who are probably distantly related to me. I particularly like the old dude with the dog. That is James Baynham. There is no mention of the name of the dog. The picture is interesting to me because the man looks very young in his face but he has this bushy white (or blonde) neck beard. The picture of the Army group in the middle is a photograph of the members of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (from the 40's I think) and John Baynham is fourth from the left on the second row. The soldier dressed in the garb from WWI is Henry Baynham.

I know that my particular branch of the Baynham family had been sent to America long before these members of the family were born, but it is nice to find some relations, even if they are somewhat distant.

I wonder sometimes if there are physical resemblances between my family and these distant relatives. I don't know if there are. I often think that my grandfather looked more like most of these distant relations. I don't know how you would figure that. I suppose you could have a computer evaluate the various features in these photographs and match them to photographs of my family.

I know I have a card in my office attached to a picture of Kate for an old soccer goalie from the Luton Hatters from the 50's named Ron Baynham. I have been told that he looks something like me. I guess that is in the eye of the beholder.

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