Image Ref : VAR06 0095.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. There are no clues as to the identity of this sitter, although it is possibly a sister of Lucy Prideaux (shown in image VAR06 0090), or even Lucy herself, on the basis of resemblances across the portraits. Lucy’s sisters were Sarah Ann (1807–1882), Augusta (1812–1900) and Susanna Rachel (1813–1900).