Mollie never met her great grandma, but she wrote about her family. She stayed with her grandma, whose mother may be pictured above. This would be Great Granny Melling nee Wright. The picture was probably taken in the greenhouse in Knowsley Road. Possibly on the same occasion as the photograph of my grandfather was taken. Grandpa, Tom Critchley, appears to be a teenager in the photograph of him in the greenhouse. That would mean the photograph was taken in 1905 or thereabouts. It has been taken from the opposite side of the greenhouse as the light source is from a different direction and the higher shelf of plant pots is to Great Granny Melling's right.
Mollie's Critchley great grandmother, Margaret Critchley, later Webb, died in 1901 according to records.
There is a picture of her below. I have identified the subject of the picture below as "Granny Webb" Having studied pictures of the Critchley children I can see a resemblance to particularly George in this picture of "Granny Webb."
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| This picture is likely to be Margaret Critchley, who remarried after her husband James Critchley died and was known to Mollie's mother Mary as "Granny Webb." |
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