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Re: Mysterious pendant-Masonic connection?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 06 November 15 18:48 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks aghadhowey and philipsearching!

I see from Google that this is not unique!

I must say that when I received the 'painting' and the pendant as a result of the death of a cousin of my mother I was very spooked- holding the same pendant as that worn by my dead great grandmother in her portrait! Jane McMichan was of Irish extraction (supposedly an ancestor, James McMichan, had nursed Rabbie Burns until his death and is buried next to Burns) but Jane married a James Murray of Hawick who was a Master Baker and Confectioner in Edinburgh where my grandfather was born. They finally ended up in Kelso, Roxburghshire where they both died. My grandfather was a Mason and I had assumed that his father James would also be one, given his status as a Master Baker and Confectioner.