Image Ref : VAR06 0094.tif

From the Pridham album (anonymous)

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. This photograph, taken in New Zealand, may be of one of the daughters of Ernest Pridham. Mary Augusta Rachel Pridham is recorded at Taranaki, New Zealand, in the 1911 electoral roll there, along with her parents. The dark wavy hair shown in image VAR06 0093 is noticeable in this image. The photographers, Wrigglesworth and Binns, were one of the foremost photographers in New Zealand around that time. As the mount of the photograph indicates, the firm had offices in Wellington on the North Island, as well as Christchurch and Dunedin on the South Island.