Image Ref : VAR06 0089.tif

'Australian Pridhams'

This is one of nine images from a photograph album that was handed in to the Oxfam shop in Totnes. An article in the Totnes Times (date unknown) tried unsuccessfully to trace the identities of those shown. However, very brief information on a few of them, together with research online, has enabled us to identify most of them and provided strong clues to the others. The change of name from ‘Prideaux’ (image VAR06 0090) to ‘Pridham’ arose when Susanna Rachel Prideaux married Charles Pridham. The three key images in the identification process were VAR06 0090, VAR06 0091 and VAR06 0096. The clue to this image was its original title and labelling: ‘Australian Pridhams – Cousins and Aunt’. Theodore Pridham was one of the six sons of Charles Pridham (‘Grandfather Pridham’ in VAR06 0091 and VAR06 0096). Theodore married Alice Collard in Bristol on 1 October 1878 and emigrated to Australia shortly afterwards, where two sons and three daughters were born. The latter were Alice Margaret, Catherine Augusta and Dorothy Prideaux Pridham. Note the strong family resemblances in this image. It seems possible that this shows Alice with two of the daughters; maybe a third daughter took the photograph. None of the three daughters married and they were buried in the same cemetery, Rookwood, in New South Wales.