CAN readers come up with clues to this mystery photograph sent to Looking Back by Shirley Nawrocki in Idaho, USA?
Taken by old-time Blackburn photograper A. Jennings and Co., who was in business in the town during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it comes from the effects of her great-grandparents, Robert Alfred Mander and Elizabeth Ann Robinson, who was born at Chipping in 1869.
Her great-grandparents were members of the Church of Latter Day Saints, with Elizabeth having been baptised in the River Ribble in 1890 at Preston where the first conversions by Mormon missionaries from America took place 53 years earlier.
Travelling to the United States in 1892, two years later she married Robert, who was born at St Louis, Missouri, at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Shirley says the couple lived for a while in England in the late 19th century. This or Elizabeth's origins at nearby Chipping could explain why a photograph taken in Blackburn was one of their possessions.
But can readers tell her more?
If so write to her at 2121 South McDermott Road, Nampa, Idaho 83687, USA.
Drop Shirley line...Click here...
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