The Family History of Rosalind Hannah Youngs

Who is this lady, and who is the child? I believe the adult may be Hannah Curtis née Stollery, who lived in
The Lodge, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich in the 1870s, with one of her children.

Picture by Seymour J. Durrant,
7, Nicholas Street, Ipswich
who appears to have been in business
only in the late 1870s.

Inscribed
'With my Best Love to you all'

Benjamin Curtis is believed to have been Master of a 3-masted private yacht owned by the Fonnereau family of Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich.

Henry William Curtis says Benjamin was Captain of a schooner named "Daisy Sunderland", used for transporting currency. This may have been prior to his employment by the Fonnereaus.

Benjamin does not appear in the censuses of 1841, 1851 and 1861. A Benjamin Curtis is recorded as crew on 2 ships in Australian waters in the mid-1850s and also as a passenger on one. If this was the Benjamin Curtis in question he may have influenced the decision of Hannah Stollery's brothers Michael and Ephraim to emigrate to Australia in the 1870s.

This photograph is believed to have been taken in Epping, Essex, in about 1915, or possibly in Brentwood a little earlier. Can you identify the time, the place or the children?

This young woman appears to be standing in the doorway of the cottage known as 'Windy Ridge', at Shingle Street. Do you know who she is?