£110
Pair of late Victorian overpainted photographic portraits on opaline glass, gentleman and lady, within oval gilt mounts and quality Gothic gilded frames, set within glazed cases. The images 28x22cm approx. (2) (B.P. 21% + VAT)
Robert Mills and his wife nee Clayton. Robert was born in 1840 in High St Cheltenham. His father Joseph was a hay dealer and also a gardener. Robert became a corn merchant. Sarah was born 1843 and lived, first of all, at the Crown Inn, Park St, Cheltenham and then at the Shakespeare Inn, High St, Cheltenham. (Now Shamrock) she was the daughter of John and Sarah Clayton and John was the inn-keeper of the Shakespeare Inn from 1859-1870. Robert and Sarah married in 1871 and made their home at 268 High Street, a few doors away from the Inn. they had three children, Herbert Wyndham Mills, Mabel Mills and Gladys Mills. Sarah, sadly died in 1887, aged 43 and robert died in 1889 aged 49. I believe Herbert was away at boarding school and the two girls went to live with their aunt and uncle Grotge and Harriet Only. She was their mother's sister. they also had a cousin Sibyl. Mabel did not marry but Gladys married late, to a widower Frederick Seward Heath, in 1921 and they lived at the Sheep House, Tuffley. No known children. the son Herbert married Mariah James and had one sin, Lloyd. He, in turn had one son Robert, who became a doctor but died young, with no issue.
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27.6% inc VAT*
