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TESSA'S
PHOTO ALBUM

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Jean-Pierre
Leyder
Photograph of my Great Grandfather
09.06.1828-20.09.1898		 Elisabeth
Beiches
Photograph of my Great Grandmother
25.02.1836-23.03.1916
My Great-Grandparents
Jean-Pierre Leyder and his wife, Elisabeth Leyder-Beiches.   They had ten children but it is sobering to know that they lost one son at birth, a daughter at 2 months, and three other daughters at 11, 12 and 13 years of age.   Another son died at 18 of pneumonia .   Elisabeth also outlived her 3rd son , François, (my Grandfather), who died aged 40.

My Grandparents
 François Leyder and his first wife, Anna Leyder-Reis.  My father was the eldest of their five children.   Sadly, Anna died when my father was just seven years old.
 François
Leyder
Photograph of my Grandfather
01.11.1863-09.04.1904		 Anna
Reis
Photograph of my Grandmother
08.08.1866-01.07.1896		  
AND
 François Leyder's second wife, Eliza Trausch.   She was Marte Janssen-Leyder's mother.
 Eliza
Trausch
Photograph of my aunt's mother

Charles Leyder
a young Marcel
Elizabeth Field
Photograph of my Father as a boy with my Great Uncle and his Wife
Marcel was adopted by his Uncle and Aunt.
My Great Uncle and his English Wife
Charles Nicolas Leyder and his wife, Elisabeth Leyder-Field, took in my father, Marcel Leyder, when his mother, Anna Reis, died when he was 7 years old.   He is probably ten or eleven in this photograph.

My Parents
These photographs were taken around the date of their marriage in 1920. 		Marcel
Leyder
Photograph of my Father aged 31
25.05.1889-01.07.1982 		Germaine
Lebel
Photograph of my Mother aged 22 or 23
25.11.1897-17.07.1990

Marcel
Leyder
Photograph of my Father
25.05.1889-01.07.1982 		Germaine
Lebel
Photograph of my Mother
25.11.1897-17.07.1990
My Parents in Later Life
 The picture of my father dates to 1974 - when he was 85 years old.   My mother's picture was taken much earlier, probably in the mid 1950s.

My Sister Pauline
She loved animals and, at one time, bred, showed and judged Afghan Hounds.   She rescued an old horse and took in countless injured birds, baby rabbits and a three-legged field vole.  But, above all, she cared for our mother with supreme love and kindness and never complained of her own ill health.   It was a terrible blow to the whole family when she collapsed suddenly and died aged 57.   She will always be missed. 		Pauline
Leyder
Photograph of my Sister, Pauline
26.06.1931-03.02.1989


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