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Dr Dude and Peter - thank you so much for your contributions - these too are incredible and I'm now spoilt for choice! My family will be so delighted with all of these enhancements which now  reveal my nan rather than the damaged original.

Thank you all again. 
Cheers  Mcvitie

Afternoon to you all

My nanny Ida Maclean from Benbecula died a day after my father was born in 1931, age 28, and we have never been able to locate a photo of his mum until now! A cousin has located what we genuinely believe is a photo of nan, after much family searching.  The photo isn't in great shape but is there any chance the creases could be erased somehow so that we can then frame her? Any help with this would be immensely appreciated. The original scan was 990kb so I used "paint" to resize down to below 500mb.
Thank you.  McVitie.

Hi Anne Marie

My apologies for not having replied sooner, only have just received a notification that you had posted recently.

A bit more detail re John and Janet's family:
Married - 1830 (the only source I have for this is a helpful chap called Blair MacAulay who has done a fair bit of research of NU families). It tends to fit with the birth of their first child (although that's not a given I know
Children:
Ann b 1832-?
Charles 1834-74
Donald 1836-37
Donald Allan 1838-after 1851
Alex 1840-43
Catherine 1843-44
Alex (my gt grandfather) 1845-1901
Lachlan 1844-1906
Christina 1851 - after 1871
Angus 1854-57

John Maclean's death cert states he died on 16/02/1855 in Houghary NU. The family are also mentioned in Bill Lawson's Croft Histories, vol 1 on pages 118 and 131 which also refers to Janet's birth place as Small Isles.

I hope this helps - I'll keep looking for any other material I have in my box files.

Cheers
McVitie

Terry

many thanks for your kind efforts too - these are all so much more vivwarmer than the original.
Cheers!
Mcvitie