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FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MS SARAH BOYD

Catalogue reference: 1226

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This record is about the FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MS SARAH BOYD dating from 1908 - 1953.

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Reference
1226
Title
FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MS SARAH BOYD
Date
1908 - 1953
Held by
Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)
Language
English
Creator(s)
<persname>Boyd, Sarah, fl 1981, of Whitefield, Manchester</persname>
Physical description
43 PHOTOGRAPHS
Administrative / biographical background

The donor was born in Cumberland, where most of these photographs were taken parents, James and Sarah Jane Edgar, kept a pub, the Elephant Inn in Southwaite, Cumberland. She married John Boyd in 1902. He was a chauffeur-cum-gardener-cum handyman on the Cowan estate of Dalston, Cumberland. After the death of Mrs. Cowan, the Boyd family moved to Lancashire on a recommendation where John Boyd took a gardening job. Soon afterwards, however, he left this and the family moved down to Salford to work and live in at a doctor's surgery.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/4c999a67-ff33-41b5-add1-61494851d0dd/

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FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO MS SARAH BOYD