Ok, the story goes like this:
There are these two photos, and I think the two women are the same, but I can't be sure as there is quite a lot of time inbetween. The first photo we have located on a website of an American guy who believes that this is his Polish greatgrandmother. The second we have located when we went to alledged family in Poland that looked amazingly like my husband's family (!), but they don't know who the man is on the picture. The thing is that the eldest son looked amzingly like him (he has died in the meantime, but I have seen fotos and they seem to be right), so they think it is their greatgrandfather who was a merchant seaman and at some point around 1905 (that's when the couple's only son was born) suddenly disappeared. We are not quite sure whether the man was lost at sea or just left his wife. We are starting to think that the same man suddenly resurfaced in Great-Britain, in the middle of WWI (Christmas 1915), coming from Canada and never going to war. He married another woman whose husband was in France fighting when 'she was delivered from a female child' of which this Pole was the father (literally rom the divorce file).
So: here are the pîctures (if I have no trouble posting them ;)). Are those two women the same? Has anyone an idea of the priod of this Uhlan-uniform (cavalry)? It should be Prussian, but with a wavy Polish collar. I know the picture is not very good, but that was the state of it when we saw it in the Polish house...
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com...0014photo.html
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...24aa32b76f76a3
And I did have trouble posting them! :lol:
There are these two photos, and I think the two women are the same, but I can't be sure as there is quite a lot of time inbetween. The first photo we have located on a website of an American guy who believes that this is his Polish greatgrandmother. The second we have located when we went to alledged family in Poland that looked amazingly like my husband's family (!), but they don't know who the man is on the picture. The thing is that the eldest son looked amzingly like him (he has died in the meantime, but I have seen fotos and they seem to be right), so they think it is their greatgrandfather who was a merchant seaman and at some point around 1905 (that's when the couple's only son was born) suddenly disappeared. We are not quite sure whether the man was lost at sea or just left his wife. We are starting to think that the same man suddenly resurfaced in Great-Britain, in the middle of WWI (Christmas 1915), coming from Canada and never going to war. He married another woman whose husband was in France fighting when 'she was delivered from a female child' of which this Pole was the father (literally rom the divorce file).
So: here are the pîctures (if I have no trouble posting them ;)). Are those two women the same? Has anyone an idea of the priod of this Uhlan-uniform (cavalry)? It should be Prussian, but with a wavy Polish collar. I know the picture is not very good, but that was the state of it when we saw it in the Polish house...
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com...0014photo.html
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...24aa32b76f76a3
And I did have trouble posting them! :lol:
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