A very large photo from an antique store run by a friend in Tucson. The front is marked "Agnen's Studio, Creston, Iowa."

A piece of cardboard was on the back, which I removed and discarded because it was decaying. In pencil on the back of the photograph was:

Mrs Duffey
307 N. Maple
Mold Smoke
95C

Back of photograph.

Could I identify the family? There are sic women, all with lace collars, and two men. I would guess the photos were taken in the late 1890s to early 1900s.

Creston, Iowa is in Union County. I searched the 1900 census for Union County for "Duff*" using the asterick symbol to catch Duffy and Duffey. Seventeen people turned up with surnames spelled Duffield, Duff, and McDuffie. No Duffeys. 

I then searched the 1880 census- no matches. Next I searched the 1910 census. There were seven Duffys. The oldest was Harriet Duffy, a widow living by herself, the mother of three children. Linked records suggested she was born in 1858, the daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Rednall) Bantock, was married first to Thomas Duffy, and second to James Mounts.

I then went to Ancestry Public Trees and found that she is listed on 44 family trees. The first one had two photographs- one of which was the same as this one. The second had two of the women (the two on the back row, left side of the picture) posing together. It turned out that the photograph was the Bantock family.

Back row, left to right: Angelina (Bantock) Bull, Harriet (Bantock)(Duffy) Mounts. Thursa Bantock, Frances Eliza Bantock, and Louisa Viola Bantock

Front row, left to right: Horace Redic Bantock, Rosabella (Bantock) Bull, and Alvert Lockwood Bantock.

 

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