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Messages - sonofthom

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The Lighter Side / Re: I am related to The King.
« on: Sunday 03 March 24 23:16 GMT (UK)  »
Not sure what to make of this as I also got an email from Family search today saying that Elvis is my 13th cousin (without the once removed bit) so I must be related to you also Biggles50! Connection is through my Hunter ancestors on my mother's side.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 16:23 GMT (UK)  »
My wife's family lived in Newington a few generations back, but this was in the south of Edinburgh. It must be quite a common place name.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Sunday 25 February 24 23:15 GMT (UK)  »
Oddly many members of my wife's family claim that their ancestor was Mary Seton, one of the four Mary's of Mary Queen of Scots fame.However the reality is that she died as a nun in France never having married. Our research has traced my wife's Seton line back to Fife with no connections to the nobility. Also Queen Mary wasn't exactly the most popular of monarchs so why even claim such a connection?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Death in Closeburn, Dumfries-shire 1952
« on: Thursday 18 January 24 17:17 GMT (UK)  »
The Dunscore reference is to Dalgarnock. Not a lot there now but several of my ancestors are buried in the small graveyard at Dalgarno(ck) churchyard.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Dating photo - Scotland - Isabella and Amelia Stobie
« on: Tuesday 15 August 23 14:41 BST (UK)  »
They were also at the Princes Street address from 1902 to 1906.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Dating photo - Scotland - Isabella and Amelia Stobie
« on: Tuesday 15 August 23 14:30 BST (UK)  »
Harper & Smellie were at 163 Leith Walk from 1899 to 1904 and then at 131-135 Leith Walk from 1905 to 1908.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date of photo and age of unidentifed lady with baby?
« on: Thursday 03 August 23 18:35 BST (UK)  »
The earliest known record of Fairbairn & Phimister at the Glasgow address is 1906 and the latest 1914 ( but possibly a bit later); see -
http://thelows.madasafish.com/alpha/EFs.htm#btm

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The Common Room / Re: Single letter surnames
« on: Thursday 18 May 23 22:27 BST (UK)  »
A variation on this theme is single letter forenames. The first names of the great blues singer and guitarist J B Lenoir were these letters. they were not initials - this was his full name.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Help identify Photographic studio please
« on: Thursday 20 April 23 22:34 BST (UK)  »
https://virtual-library.culturalservices.net/webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/highlanders_in_the_studio.htm

See third photo down.

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