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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 260142, member: 33&quot;]Looks like he is dressed in white tie, so pretty formal. Who knows what the occasion might be -- </p><p><br /></p><p>Unless you wrote the second line on the back, somebody wrote it after 1946 when Michael was born. Not sure if that helps!</p><p><br /></p><p>You wrote,<i> &quot;How do you go from a painter, to a butcher/butler, to working on the railroad?&quot;</i></p><p>Note his ages for these jobs... he was a painter when he was 15 years old, not an adult yet. Perhaps working part-time or with somebody else. He was a butcher when he was 25, a young man who hadn&#039;t yet found what he would be doing most of his life. By age 35 he had started working on the railroad. To me it&#039;s interesting that he was a railroad policeman in one census and a railroad porter in the next. But I don&#039;t know much about what those jobs entailed then. Maybe neither of them required specialized education?</p><p><br /></p><p>About the time frame, I don&#039;t know much about men&#039;s shirt collars and jackets but guessing that his age is in his late 40s-early 50s in this photo? So just as a wild guess I&#039;ll say 1890s for the date. Similar to what Bev guessed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding his son Sidney, do you have any access to the United States census records? I forget which country you live in. If you do have access, check the 1900 and 1910 censuses for Sidney. Perhaps he did come over with a relative. If you don&#039;t have access somebody here could check for him for you. I can&#039;t do it right now but might be able to later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure why he didn&#039;t live with his father, since the girls did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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