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Ayrshire / Re: Photographs by John Humphrey of King Street, Kilmarnock 1860-1889
« on: Monday 08 May 17 05:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi John, Here's the link to the blog on the Humphrey photos :
the-lothians.blogspot.com/2017/05/tintype-memories-of-visit-to-kilmarnock.html

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Ayrshire / Re: Photographs by John Humphrey of King Street, Kilmarnock 1860-1889
« on: Sunday 16 April 17 06:08 BST (UK)  »
Will do John. The interesting thing is that the tintypes appear to be taken at the same time as the CDV, the latter being a standard studio portrait with backdrop. So i'm strongly assuming they went to Kilmarnock. One last thing, the tintype mounts are in two colours and three variants in style. I'll leave you in peace now till i'm ready to post my blog. I'm finding this so interesting.
regards,
Donald

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Ayrshire / Re: Photographs by John Humphrey of King Street, Kilmarnock 1860-1889
« on: Saturday 15 April 17 20:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi John,
So pleased to hear from you. I know this will further confuse matters but my CDV and Tintypes are definitely dated to around 1882-1884 as a younger family member appears in them who was born in 1859 so there's absolutely no assumptions there. I'm writing a blog (the-lothians.blogspot.com/) about these photos (the connection between the CDV portrait and the individual tintypes, the history of "tintypes', and a little bio of those who were 'tintyped'. I'll post the link to this blog when I upload this but will probably be into next month. One of the "sitters" was my above Gt GT Uncle hence I have these photo but still don't know why a merry band of friends went from Dalserf / Stonehouse to Kilmarnock to have their photos taken, obviously for some sort of special occasion. Some of them have flowers in their lapel buttonholes.
Regards,
Donald Cochrane
Dunedin
New Zealand

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Ayrshire / Re: Photographs by John Humphrey of King Street, Kilmarnock 1860-1889
« on: Saturday 15 April 17 09:36 BST (UK)  »
I have five "tintype" photographs taken by "John Humphry, Kilmarnock" as well as a carte-de-visite with these same five men included in a group photo by "John Humphrey, Kilmarnock". Not sure if the printer made a mistake or that was the old phonetic spelling of his surname. But I cannot find any CDV's with "Humphry". But definitely same photographer.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Dalserf churchyard
« on: Tuesday 04 September 12 10:27 BST (UK)  »
Hullo, Would it be possible to have a copy of the headstone in Dalserf Churchyard that has the name Watson please? I know I have Watson relatives buried here but not sure about the other headstones that include the Watson name. I've just started a Watson family history so this is great. Thank you so much.

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