flowergirls

Lovely, three happy looking kids with two nice smiles and nice dresses on the three of them The veils are very simple with the flower headdresses.

Are the older girls wearing silk stockings?

blackpoolbeach I think you're right there, those look like silk stockings to me. I also note on closer scrutiny that the two older girls have similar brooches or pins in their dresses. Probably a gift for playing their part. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/69751036@N08] Kevin, as regards the mat/rug/carpet the Poole photographs have many examples of these being laid out to save the footwear and dresses of the participants. Note the young ladies lovely shoes? They were probably being save from the dirt of the lawn and footpath.

That doesn't look like the front door at Power Hall, which can be seen in other nli photos here and here.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/69751036@N08] Hi Kevin! Yes, as Swordscookie swordscookie says, probably to protect their shoes. And mats or rugs are a hallmark of Poole Photographic Studio outdoor photos. This one is very snazzy...

In there somewhere, I guess: maps.google.ie/maps?q=powerstown+kilkenny&hl=en&l...

There's Grattan-Bellews in the 1911 census. Are these people marrying their cousins? www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_... Or does the title only reflect one party to this matrimonial alliance?

From this article in the Kilkenny People, I think this is Bettina Idrone Dorothy Loftus marrying Thomas Henry (Hal) Grattan-Bellew, a great great grandson of Henry Grattan, the great irish patriot.

Niall McAuley Beat me to it!

London Times, June 14th 1933

Bettina Idrone Dorothy Loftus was the daughter of Major John Edward Blake Loftus.2 She married Thomas Henry Grattan-Bellew, son of Sir Henry Christopher Grattan-Bellew, 3rd Bt. and Lady Sophia Maria Elizabeth Forbes, on 1 June 1933.1 She died on 10 March 1995.1 From 1 June 1933, her married name became Grattan-Bellew.

Great sharing my friends! How wonderful that this documentation reaches the global digital consciousness :) Enjoy your weekend now!

Cute girl second from left doesn't look to plussed about things.

?any info where on LI.

NYTimes reported in 1913:

"HEMPSTEAD, L.I., May 22. -- The townsfolk here are waiting with much curiosity for the suffrage pageant which Gen. Rosalie Jones has arranged for next Saturday afternoon. On that day those interested in the suffrage cause, will march from Mineola to this place. At the trolley junction the parade will be reviewed by Assemblyman O'Keefe and officials of Nassau County."

Flower girls in the springtime would make sense, too. Two days later, also in the New York Times:

"Hempstead, N.Y., May 24. -- Three miles of public highway between Mineola and Hempstead were crowded this afternoon with a long line of automobiles from all parts of Nassau County as they followed the suffrage pageant, in which 500 women and a few men marched as enthusiastic upholders of the cause."

We've come a long way, baby. I don't understand why it took so long for the lunk heads in Washington to realize that women are HUMAN BEINGS. Women worked hard for a nickel an hour or less. They carried and delivered the babies who became famous men. Just how STUPID were we?