guessing the great-grandmothers

Every picture tells a story, season 2, picture 10.

This photo from Silesia is a bit of a guessing game, but I think we have Gellrich family on the left, and Geppert family on the right, with their shared grandchild and two uncertain great-grandmothers? In which case we're looking at the 1940s.

(This is a high res scan in case anybody wants to zoom in and try to ID people.)

Which would mean that, identifying the grown-ups by their birth names as usual, we would have from left to right, Paul Gellrich sen., Hedwig Scholz, then the old lady could be the mother of either, i.e. Mathilde Metzner or Anna Kleße respectively (although I tend to prefer the latter interpretation, as I think she looks a bit more like Hedwig Scholz). The Gellrichs lived at Groß-Olbersdorf, Kreis Frankenstein, and we last saw them at the wedding of their daughter Maria.

On the right we have Martha Stephan and Wilhelm Geppert, the baker based at Dörndorf, Kreis Frankenstein. Of the Geppert family, three great-grandparents hailing from Reichenstein and Kamitz are known to have died earlier, with the only potential survivor being his mother, who was called Ottilie and was born either Scheidthauer or Büttner (conflicting info in different documents relating to her son.) Of the great-grandparents' generation we have no specific dates, places or other photos to compare this to, so very big question marks over these two.

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Season 2 so far:

1. could be a cousin
2. two weddings in Silesia
3. off to Canada
4. off to Australia
5. a very romantic poet
6. fireman August
7. 50 hundredweight of coffee
8. mysterious Minden people
9. horses for Hedwig
10. guessing the great-grandmothers

The new twitter thread for the new season is here.

The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. It only loads 30 tweets at first, so you have to click "show more" a couple of times to get all 40 entries. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.

I'm also adding all photos from this series to my family history album on flickr.