communing cousins

I remember the delight of Christmas Day when many of the Judd family cousins visited their grandparents at Piggabeen, at about the time the exhaustion of the day set in for their parents. We sat on both sides of the hallway, eating home-grown watermelon in large chunks.

After a long gap of several decades while busy establishing their own family branches and professions, the cousins have started a tradition of meeting at Easter every three years or so. And now there are two or three new generations of cousins, some meeting each other for the first time. But it's also an opportunity to go back in time and look for resemblances amongst the twigs. 

Here are the antecedents for those twigs.

Marie, John, Esma, Amy, Joe, Oswald, Jim, Olga and Pauline circa 1952

Esma, Olga, Marie,
Jim, Joe, Pauline

Esma, Pauline, Jim (in car), Olga, Marie

Marriage of Amy Esma Parkins and Oswald Joseph Judd 13 June 1928

Amy Esma Parkins 1906 - 1994 Doris Parkins 

Parkins family wedding, Amy Parkins seated on the floor

Parkins family, Amy Parkins seated on right

Amy Parkins, seated, frowning at the camera, circa 1907 
(On reverse: aged 12 months)

Elizabeth Prisk 1861 - 1940 Samuel James Parkins 1856-1922 

Joseph Judd 1861 - 1946 Ida May Judd 1874 - 1949

Oswald Joseph Judd 1903 - 1979

Alwyn Judd, Oswald Joseph Judd 1903 - 1979

Ida May Adams 1874-1949

Joseph Judd 1861 - 1946