Boucher family

Photo album I

The Boucher family photographs are reproduced with the kind permission of Brighton and Hove Museum

This collection of family portraits was donated to Brighton Museum in 1993 and was the property of Miss Janie Boucher, who died in 1992 at the age of 92. Miss Janie Boucher's grandfather, Albert Boucher, was a well known Victorian photographer who came to Brighton in 1870. He had two photographic studios, at 23 Ship Street and 15 Kings Road.

Albert Boucher was born in France in 1841 and died in 1875. He married Elizabeth Dando, who was born in Somerset in 1841. Albert and Elizabeth had one son, Adolphe, who was born in Somerset in 1869. He became a photographer like his father and had a studio in Twickenham, near London.

Francoise Boucher (nee Jecle), wife of Adolphe, was born in France of Italian parents. They had three children: Albert Boucher, born in 1897, who died in the First World War at the age of twenty; Janie Boucher, born 1900, died 1992; and Agnes Mary, born 1904.

After Albert Boucher's death, Elizabeth married another French photographer, Bernard de la Grave, who took over the running of Albert's studio. They had three children: Eneis; Edith; and Ernest.

Mary Dando and Susan Marner (nee Dando, born 1849), Elizabeth's mother and sister, lived with the Boucher family.