The senior of these two fine gentlemen is John Colgate who was born in 1856, the son of Henry Colgate and Charlotte Jeal; Henry and Charlotte had moved from Kent to Surrey where the family continued to live. John Colgate was a farm labourer and he married Sarah Day whose life I have also followed. John and Sarah had four children, three daughters and a son, Ernest who is the fine young fellow in this picture. Ernest, born in 1881 and the third of the children, also worked on the land in various jobs, including being a ploughman. John lived to the good age of seventy, his wife Sarah, despite a very hard early life, lived to be eighty-eight. Ernest married Augusta Brown, and he was my husband’s grandfather. These two men in the photo are strikingly similar in looks; if you placed my husband beside them you would have no doubt that they are the same family.
Father and son
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Lois Elsden 
Dapper looking dudes!
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Very dapper! I wouldn’t exactly describe my husband as dapper, but certainly our son who does have the family look is dapper the the nth degree!
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nice to see the Augusta name floating around. It’s my mum’s – although she is really Augustina
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It is a pretty name, Augustina is even prettier!
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one polish one german
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not sure the hard AW or SHT in the middle is pretty to english ears
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