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Welsh Boys' Families



Figure 1.--We note an unidentified Port Barry family. They seem a substantial middle-class family. The portrait is undated, but looks like it was takern in the 1890s. There are five children from infancy to about 15 years old. The two boys wear matchuing Norfolk suits with Eton collars. The two girls wear matching dresses even though they are different ages..

We do not yet have much information about Welsh families. We vhave found quite a few English family imahes, but not bery many Welsh family images. This is a matter of numbers. Wales had a snuch smaller poulation than England and less prosperous. Both population and economic prosperity are factors in the photographic record. Our Welsh archive is thus still very limited and these photograpohs are our primary source of information about Welsh families. As far as we can tell, fashion we see in these Welsh family images are the same as in England. The only exception we have noted are the clothes worn my mostly older women in the villages were folk styles were still worn to some extent in the late-19th century. We note an unidentified Port Barry family. They seem a substantial middle-class family. The portrait is undated, but looks like it was takern in the 1890s. There are five children from infancy to about 15 years old. The two boys wear matching Norfolk suits with Eton collars. The two girls wear matching dresses even though they are different ages. We notice Welsh families in the 20th century that also look ondestinguishable fron English families at the time. The angklization ofWelsh society continued in the 20th centutry. English was becoming increasingly dominant and we see little or no difference in how the Welsh dresses and lived. We also note the James family which emigrated to Australia in 1927. They seems a modest income family. Today when one crosses the Welsh-English border, the only real difference is the lengthn of the place names.

The 19th Century

We do not yet have much information about Welsh families. We vhave found quite a few English family imahes, but not bery many Welsh family images. This is a matter of numbers. Wales had a snuch smaller poulation than England and less prosperous. Both population and economic prosperity are factors in the photographic record. Our Welsh archive is thus still very limited and these photograpohs are our primary source of information about Welsh families. As far as we can tell, fashion we see in these Welsh family images are the same as in England. The only exception we have noted are the clothes worn my mostly older women in the villages were folk styles were still worn to some extent in the late-19th century. We note an unidentified Port Barry family. They seem a substantial middle-class family. The portrait is undated, but looks like it was takern in the 1890s. There are five children from infancy to about 15 years old. The two boys wear matching Norfolk suits with Eton collars. The two girls wear matching dresses even though they are different ages.

The 20th Century

While we have very few 19th century Welsh images, we have found some 20th century images. We notice Welsh families in the 20th centurym but they look indestinguishable fron English families at the time. With few exceptions, unless the studio or other locality information is on the photograph, it is impossible to tell that the image is Welsh. The Anglization of Welsh society began farveralier and has been more comolete than that of Scotland. And this was very pronounced by the 20th centutry. English was becoming increasingly dominant and we see little or no difference in how the Welsh dressed and lived. We notice a Thyl family at mid century. And there is no way of dustunuishing them from an English family. Tge boys wear the standard short pants suits and knee sicks. We also note the James family which emigrated to Australia in 1927. They seems a modest income family. Today when one crosses the Welsh-English border, the only real difference is the length of the place names. I have traveled widely in Wales andexcept for the palce names, noticed no real differences.






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