My wife wore her great grandmother's veil from 1918. Years later, we learned it had previously belonged to my wife's great great great grandmother, who wore it in 1866!

Great question! I don't know. If so, they would have gone to one of my aunts. However... 1/2

I've started to question that, for sure. Just because it was in a book doesn't mean it was correct!

If the photo was taken when the photographer had taken up his profession, sometime later than 1885, the girl would have been born in the mid-1870s or later - meaning she married and had her first child before she was 10 years old. 😬 7/7

If the photographer in the caption is the same as the one in the Wiki, I have a timeline problem. The girl in the middle of the photo is said to have been born in 1865 and was 10 when the photo was taken. But the photographer in the Wiki article would have been 12 years old when it was taken. 6/x

Also googling "ФОТОГРАФЪ ХАДАКЪ", I came across this entry on the Russian-language Wikipedia 5/x

ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%...