help with mysterious photo please

[Lady Liberty]

Hello everyone- :) my it's been a very long time since I posted here!
I put my research on hold due to a few family bereavments and others things, so im really rusty at the moment :o

I Hope i find everybody well.

Ive got a mysterious photo from a friend and they would like to know a little about the lady on it interms of her approx age, how old the photo is etc- unfortunately there is no info on the photo what so ever :o

It was donated to a local church in Horden Co Durham
but no one has a clue who the lady is!

Thank's Libby

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd315/gp-coastie/Image000-1.jpg

[Just Barbara]

Hiya Libby, would it be possible to make the photo a bit bigger?

[FenTiger]

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l121/FenTiger_01/Image000-1.jpg

Resized xx

[brenmac]

i think she is about 35 1920,s? brenda xxx

[Lady Liberty]

Thank's for enlarging the Photo Julie- :)

Ive no idea Bren lol

Ive just been informed that the person on the Photo was one of the founders of spiritualism- how true that is I don't know!

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

I agree with bren about the lady's age, but I would have put the photo at late Victorian, or very very early 1900's.

[Christine in Herts]

If you google for Spiritualism, the dates don't work very well. Perhaps she was a founder of the Spiritualist church in that area?

Christine

[Lady Liberty]

Thanks guy's- i know it's very difficult with having little info!

[brenmac]

if you know where she lived then google her area and then churches brenda xxx

[Just Barbara]

Hi, sorry I've taken so long to get back, the picture isn't the best to date, but I think it's from the late 1880's, but that is I stress " a think" but her hair and the style of her dress do look right for the period, I would have said she was about 30.

[Lady Liberty]

Again, thanks for your opinions :)

Somebody has suggested she may be one of the "Fox sisters" who were involved with the birth of the spiritulist movement- I googled "fox sisters and found the following info and photo's - does anybody see a resemblance to these sisters and the photo above? In my opinion the sisters were born too early to be the lady in above picture?



Fox's Sisters (http://www.crewespiritualistcentre.org.uk/Fox's%20Sisters.html)

[borobabs]

Oh looking at there noses there does seem to be a resemblance to them , but saying that it would be the lower 2 not the top picture ;;

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

The dates for the Fox sisters make them too old if the photo was taken late 1880's or later.