Written with blue ballpoint pen on paper sellotaped to bottom of picture - Grandad Thomas & Granny Catherine King with the first 4 members of their family – Margaret, baby Jack, Thomas (behind, between parents) & my Father Francis (holding straw boater hat!)

Thomas & Catherine King with their 4 eldest children, c.1895 1 photocopy

Left to Right - Margaret, Mr Thomas King, Jack (front), ‘Tom’ Thomas (Jnr), Mrs Catherine King, ‘Frank’ Francis.

Photo believed taken in Gore (South Island) before family moved to Paekakariki about 1898-99.

The 4 youngest children were – Myrtle, Ethel, Irene & James (who had a twin sister who died at birth).

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Written on back with red ink pen – 2/28 Post Office & Station in distance Gore

Gore Post Office with Railway Station in distance, February 1928 1 B&W photo print

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