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Found this picture postcard in family papers.Have no clue as to where taken and what uniform but noted kilts and red cross .The chap in breeches looks like grt uncle J.M.Percy Ross  b 1876 Braelangwell,Ross-shire but this chap looks older - maybe his cap gives that impression.His brother Errington b 1871 was a Lovat Scout and raised an Inverness Militia according to Percy.Sorry to be so vague. They were all gone before I arrived !

My late mother-in-law was one of 16 children .Her parents Alexander and Cath McIntosh and most of their family went to Canada in the 1920s but Lil and her sister Kate/Catherine  stayed behind as they were to be married .

Mary Ann LILLIAS McIntosh did marry from 8 Grant Street, Nairn.I am trying to find her sister Catherine McIntosh b 1888 and believe it may have been from Kate's address Lil was married. Kate was a large lady married to a gentleman of smaller stature but nobody remembers the surname.He may have been called Walter but that is just a hopeful memory .

Family members remember they did live in Nairn and I thought  6 Commercial Street was mentioned. Without her married surname I am stumped for any records.

Their sister Jessie and her husband Jim Acton from Quebec visited Lil and her husband Jim MacLeod in Inverness in 1973 .

Any help appreciated.

Frances.

My  Scottish grand uncle Alexander Panton Smith Ross was a telegrah clerk in UK and the family stone records that he died on 6 Jun 1894  in this strange sounding place -in Johnnesburg apparently.
He was just 27 and it would be interesting to know more but does anyone know where Supect Plaats is or was ?

Fransmoi.

From an online book I have found that a possible ancestor Margaret Montgomery was married to the local minister in Lairg. He was Thomas Mackay said to be her cousin. Margaret died 1773.
His father John Mackay whom he seems to have suceeded as minister in Lairg died in 1803 aged 86.
Any one have info on this lady ? Her father and brother were named John.

I have reached the 'brick wall 'with my grt grandmother's father Thomas Turnbull (1779 ca.- 1839)   Who were his parents ?

From the gravestone in the Chapel Yard,Invernes he was a wool merchant and tanner and died aged 60 years in 1839.
His brother John Turnbull died the year before aged 51 so born 1787 ca.

Thomas' widow Margaret Woodman from Strichen bore a daughter Elizabeth Turnbull 5 months after his death. Elizabeth Sophia Turnbull was to marry my grt grandfather  George Ross, Brealangwell, Black Isle in 1863.

Thomas' will says he was a flesher and wool merchant and their address is always given as simply "The Shore" and on their marriage banns he is " from Inverness"

My dad said they were tanners on the West bank of the river Ness by Friars'Shott which would be feasible as skins had to be cleaned in water. Perhaps this was where the business was done.

In the1841 census she is living at 30 Shore Street with children John & Elizabeth and is of Independant means.
 
As late as Tuesday, April 14, 1857 the Inverness Advertiser announced a sale -
Turnbull's wool & skin works, Shore, public sale of wool .
This is 18 years after Thomas' demise.

Could it be that there were other family members who helped the widow keep the firm going since her sons Thomas died aged 7 months and John aged 7 years. Or did she employ her neighbours Duncan Fraser and John who were both fleshers ?

Any suggestions as to how I might find Thomas' parents apart from the Scottish naming pattern which suggests his dad was a John Turnbull.

Thanks folks,
Fransmoi