The Wixon family in 1908, Mr Arthur Wixon and his wife Mrs Alice Wixon are shown below in a damaged photo. The oldest daughter’s in the photo was also called Alice.
Large families were common and the Wixon’s would go on to have 15. Sadly two died before they were eight. Kate Wixon died aged 4 of diphtheria in 1912 and Robert Wixon died also aged four in 1904. The second youngest of the 15 wasn’t born until 1921! Another sad tale from a very large family and of death and record-breaking can be found in the 1909 story of the record-breaking unicyclist
The location for the photoshoot was a four-roomed “courthouse” in Coventry 1908
Wixon family 1908 Mr Arthur Wixon, Mrs Alice Wixon, Alice Wixon daughter.
The restoration was made slightly simpler by another reference photo of Mr Alice Wixon.
The new face image was scaled, flipped and converted to black and white before setting the blend mode to darken and masked out. The mask was painted on to reveal the useful details to fill in the missing face. Great care was made in keeping the grain, focus and aged look to blend in all together.
The plant pot was recreated to left. This was done by finding a reference image of a Hydrangea leaf and making a custom brush from it. This was then used with the brush tools, including scatter, scaling and angle jitter to achieve random patterns of leaves that could be used to make a new plant. The pot was reconstructed with what little detail there was within the image. Everything was blended in.
Arthur Wixon and Alice Wixon and their family 1908 restored.
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HI I am a wixon we have a new face book page called Wixon Geneology and connections come visit us we also have a robert wixon in our familly born about 1873
Thank you for stopping by! Ill take a look at the page.
Hi my name is Gail Susan Wixon born 6.6.1958. I am a daughter to my dad Norman Eric Wixon born 5.6.1924. Dad is a son to Lena and George Wixon of Paddington, Brisbane. Mum’s name was Audrey Edith (nee Barnes) of Bardon, Brisbane. They were married on 3rd June, 1950.
I am a twin to Jenny Leigh Wixon.
Her married name is Harvison.
I have never married nor any children. I am 59yrs old. Two other sisters Wendy Lorelle Wixon and Brenda Robyn Wixon. Sadly Wen died on 4th September 2009 from Breast Cancer.
Dad died on 30th May, 2005. Mum died 7th April, 2010. Hope this is helpful to the Wixon family tree. Regards Gail Wixon
A lovely but sad image. You’ve done a very good job in repairing and restoring a badly damaged image and replacing lost content, in particular recreating the potted Hydrangea. Was there a particular reason for omitting the (was it sepia) tint?
Hi There
Yes the sepia is not something the original had. In fact it would have been added. Sepia is either a result of adding at the development process or age related. Smoke, gas lighting, candle lighting smoke, dirt, tobacco, sunlight, living in generally less sterile environments than we do today. What you cant see from this image is that i gave it a warm tone white and blue tone black to add some punch. It doesn’t show so well on the low resolution image. Thank you for your comments.