I have been extremely lucky with photographs again and wanted to share them, so have posted them onto the Yahoo KNIBB pages today. This time, instead of being of KNIBBS people, they are photographs that were taken by a KNIBBS. They turned up in a photograph album containing photographs from a cruise in the S.Y. THETIS via Gibraltar, Italy, Greece, Corfu, Turkey, Lisbon, Aden, Zanzibar and various places in Africa. I was delighted when the owner contacted me and offered me copies. The album has over 220 photographs and from what the owner can tell, they date from between 1880-1890. Amongst the photographs there are two that are signed "J KNIBBS - PHOTO" in the bottom right hand corner. They are both from South Africa and one is entitled Faro(?) Harbour - East London. The other is "Morning Market" and depicts a fantastic market scene of that period. Both original photos are 220-165mm. Apparently it was common practice in those days for passengers on cruise ships to purchase photographs at each place they visited - presumably because cameras were still high-tech and not that easy to carry around. I am not 100% sure who J KNIBBS was but have seen reference to him as a photographer once before. I suspect it was either James or John Knibbs, who were both sons of John Edward Knibbs who arrived in Cape Tape aboard the Shah Jehan in July 1859 with his new wife Fanny. John Edward was from Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England, and came from a family of Saddle and Harness makers. He settled in King William's Town and supplied saddles and harnesses to the Cape police and military. He also made and sold suitcases. His son James Knibbs was know to have worked for him in the business. John Edward married his young wife Fanny Collins who was just 18 years of age on 6 March 1859 and they arrived in Cape Town on 12th July that same year. In 1901, John appears at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in the UK with his wife Fanny and two younger daughters Hilda and Amy. Amy was born in Cheltenham, but Hilda, the younger of the two was born in South Africa. We believe from this information that John Edward was a fairly wealthy man who travelled back and forth to his home country of England with his family on several occasions. All that remains is to discover which of the brothers, James or John, was the Photographer! For more information on this family, please take a look at http://knibbs.family.users.btopenworld.com/fam129.html Don