1901 Harry Wise
Studio portrait scanned from a glass negative by Henry Dunning of Usk, Monmouthshire. It's likely that this Usk portrait, labelled as Harry Wise, is Thomas Henry Wise. In 1901 he lived with his parents at 43 Baron Street, Usk as a 19-year-old Printer Compositor.
His father is Willam (Grocers Carter/Carman) and mother is Jane Wise (dressmaker), sister Mabel and a boarder Charles Jones (labourer), complete the household.
Harry wears a high starched collar with a patterned tie and a flower in his buttonhole signifying a wedding. A handkerchief is tucked, somewhat untidily, into his top pocket and he has recently had a haircut. He wears spectacles. There is a marriage record for him to Ada Wait in 1908 so perhaps this was the occasion. He would have been 27 and Ada Waitwas 32. She was a parlourmaid from Wiltshire working at Castle House just a few roads away.
Curiously the 1911 census shows the Wise family (and Charles Jones) all still together at the same address and Harry is listed as single with no sign of Ada. With no death record found for her found, there must have been another reason they are not together.
His sister Mabel is by then a teacher and they are all shown as English speakers. Harry Wise died in 1943 aged 61.
1900s19011916Baron StreetBridge StreetDate certainDunningGBHarry WiseHenry DunningMonmouthshirePortraitUskWalesWisefloweflowerglass negativeglasseshalf lengthinsidemanone personphotographplain backgroundpocket handkerchiefspectaclessuitsurnamesurname Dunningsurname Wisetieweddingyoung man
