It is difficult to know what to say about the forebears and ancestors and aunts and cousins and married-ins and so on. Good sorts generally.

A child of 1867

Taken 1883 (or thereabouts) in Australia.

My maternal grandmother's mother, b. 5/11/1867 at Hokitika, New Zealand. One of a generation of women whose sons died in WWI.

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My great grandfather. Husband to Rose.

Or taken by the talons

My grandmother (before she was, obviously) with a friendly kookaburra at Mangrove Mountain

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Taken by the hand

This is the title of a book by O.Douglas (sister to John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir). It is as gentle a tale as you are likely to find anywhere. The dedication reads: To Clement Bryce Gunn -- For nearly fifty years Doctor of Medicine in the town of Peebles. "Those who must journey/ Henceforward alone/ Have need of stout company/ Now Great Heart is gone." The book was first published in January 1935