We need your help! He had served some twelve years as a police constable and resigned to take up a job in Woolwich as a Tram Driver. A studio photograph below was taken at this time showing my great grandparents Robert and Sarah with their daughter Margaret my grandmother and son, also named Robert.
My grandmother was about 14 years old and her brother some six years younger. Margaret from the photo left, notice the detail of the dress! In Sarah died at the age of My grandmother at this time had been apprenticed to a tailor. The family were living at 20 Rippolson Road, Plumstead. A short time later my great grandfather remarried. There were no children by the second marriage, although the couple adopted a nephew related to the wife. This is a photograph of my grandmother, Margaret Anderson Ingram taken in a Woolwich Studio when she was about I believe her mother died soon after this photograph was taken.
This photograph was provided by a third cousin who lives in Scotland, Alistair Ian Ingram. This is a photo of my grandmother Margaret Anderson Ingram taken circa in the grounds of Windwhistle House, Grayshott when she was employed by Dr Lynton and his wife Charlotte.
My grandmother stayed with her older half sister who was employed as a housekeeper to a wealthy Doctor and his family. The same family employed my grandmother as they valued her sewing skills.
A few years later she married Alfred White. There were four children by this marriage. There is an old photograph taken in see below showing her with the children. Alfred was killed in action the same year. His name appears on a monument at Grayshott. She stayed with her father and stepmother briefly, then rented rooms nearby.
