“Patrick Bradshaw and Wife” that’s what’s written on the back of this photograph in pencil. Someone in Chateaugay found it and gave it to my sister Angie. I am 95% sure that this is my Great Grandparents Patrick and Johanna (Sweeney) Bradshaw. We can’t be 100% sure, since church records indicate that there was another Patrick Bradshaw in town for a while.
He has my dad’s eyes, and she has his mouth, so I choose to believe these are my great grandparents. In any case, they’re certainly family.
The logo of A.E. Holmes is on the back of the photo. Holmes’s photography studio was located in Chateaugay, so we know this is a local picture.
I would guess that they’re in their early forties which would date the photo to the mid 1880’s.
If I were somehow able to meet these two, I would have many questions, and many things to say, the first of which would be:
“Geez, Pat, button your damn vest.”
