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Armed Forces / Re: Identify uniform
« on: Friday 22 December 17 17:23 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks- I didn't recognise it as a buckle.  I thought it was just 3 white buttons on a belt.  Clearly (or not so clearly) my eyesight isn't what it was!

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify uniform
« on: Friday 22 December 17 15:49 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you John915
It's quite possible the colours are wrong.  As I said, I imagine my uncle coloured this photograph and this could well have been after my grandfather's death in 1946, so he wouldn't necessarily have known the correct colours.
I have looked up the photographers (Hamptons) and from the design of the photo mounting it is likely the picture was taken about 1900.

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify uniform
« on: Friday 22 December 17 15:04 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Jebber for that information.  I'm not sure if its the same Donald Muir in the Scottish Rifles because grandfather was married in 1901 and was described on the marriage cert as a journeyman boilermaker. 
Its a bit indistinct but the belt doesn't seem to have a buckle - just three white buttons.  That is one reason why I thought it maybe was just a photographer's prop.

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Armed Forces / Identify uniform
« on: Thursday 21 December 17 23:32 GMT (UK)  »
I believe this is a picture of my grandfather, Donald Muir from Glasgow.  He was born in 1875 and I think the photo was taken about 1895 by Hampton photographers in Glasgow.  Although the uniform looks military (Royal Artillery was suggested to me), I don't think Donald was ever in the military.  As far as I know he worked in the Glasgow shipyards all his life and he is there in the 1891 and 1901 censuses.  Perhaps it is a bandsman's uniform or did photographic studios have clothes (and uniforms) for customers to dress up in?   I assume the original was in black and white but that it was coloured later (I remember my uncle, his son, used to do that).
Any help appreciated

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Dublin / Re: william kertland
« on: Wednesday 11 October 17 21:04 BST (UK)  »
Do you have any information on Ann (or Ellen) Kertland (b abt 1811 in Dublin) who married Daniel MacNamara (probably in Dublin) and later moved to England

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Wexford / Re: Frayne's of County Wexford
« on: Sunday 25 June 17 21:23 BST (UK)  »
I presume you know there was a Walter Saunders Frayne from Bormont (near Enniscorthy, Wexford) interred in St Matthew's churchyard, Irishtown Dublin in 1835 (He was aged 23)

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Herefordshire / Re: WARGENT surname...need help
« on: Tuesday 20 October 09 15:47 BST (UK)  »
I think the William Wargent who married Martha Saunders was born in May 1728, eldest son of John Wargent of Hereford who married Ann Pool of Ledbury in 1727.

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