Acknowledgements - Ancestors

Descendants and their Ancestors Thank you to the following for telling me about their ancestors
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Andy Aitken (Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland)	whose father's cousin was the Edinburgh photographer, George Morrison, son of George G Morrison
Elizabeth Allison, (Clermiston, Edinburgh)	daughter of John Bowden, Leith Camera Club President 1967-68
Douglas Annan (Glasgow, Scotland)	descendant of Thomas Annan
Katie Elliott Armitage	relative of John Ross
Muriel Atkinson (Canada),	great-granddaughter of David Syme Hay
George Thomas Ayton Toronto, Ontario, Canada)	g.g.g.grandson of James Aiton (b.1749), grandfather of Edinburgh photographer Alex Ayton.
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Ed Bain	for sending details of his father, EPS Member since the 1930s, Langley P Bain, and of the EPS premises at 16 Royal Terrace.
Heather Bain	g/g/g/g/granddaughter of Jessie Aitken who was the subject of a carte de visite possibly taken by the Edinburgh/Hawick/Glasgow photographer John Aitken
Jean Bambrick	Jean believes that John C Bambrick was a brother of my late husband's father, William Bambrick.
Miriam Barry (Norfolk)	great-niece of William Barry
Lionel O Barthold (USA),	grandson of Sidney Charles Salmon
Maria I Bauman	whose husband's grandfather was the professional photographer, Louis Saul Langfier
Janet Beale (Sydney Australia)	3rd great grand-niece of Justine Henrietta Frederique Macrae, the wife of Horatio Ross.
Richard Beattie (Harare, Zimbabwe)	great great grandson of the Dunfermline, Linlithgow and Edinburgh photographer, James Paton.
Elaine Beaumont (Edinburgh)	great niece of Ronald Train.
Geraldine Benzmann	grand-daughter of the Edinburgh photographer, Claude Low
Douglas Blades	Thank you to Douglas Blades for allowing me to reproduce his photo showing the prefabs in Oxgangs avenue with high-rise flats in the background. Thank you also to Peter Hoffmann for sending me a copy of this photo, which was passed to him by Douglas to be added to Peter's 'Stair 6, Oxgangs' blog site.
Trina Bouvet (Grenoble, Cedex, France)	grand-daughter of Edinburgh and Portobello photographer, Philip Ernest Low.
Debbie Bowdler (New Zealand)	descendant of William Barry and WJC Barry.
Neil Bowdler (New Zealand)	descendant of William Barry and WJC Barry.
Doreen D Brady (Leonardo, New Jersey, USA)	granddaughter of Louis Saul Langfier.
Geraldine Heather Benzmann	great-granddaughter of Claude Low
Glenda Broadbent	whose husband's grandfather was Douglas G. Glen - son of H Graham Glen.
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Cathy Chick (Devon, England)	Great granddaughter of the Selkirk photographer and postcard publisher, AR Edwards, and granddaughter of his son, Robert Edwards.
Chris Capes (Canada)	whose grandfather was the Edinburgh and Glasgow photographer in the 1890s and early 1900s, James Naysmith Paton
Mrs MH Catford (Edinburgh)	daughter in law of Edwin Osmond Catford who took many interesting photographs of trams and buses in the streets of Edinburgh in the early 1900s.
J Michael Coltart	grand-son of the Edinburgh photographer, James Robert Coltart
Alison Coote (Surrey, England)	grand-daughter of the Edinburgh photographer, William J Hay
John Counsell (Devon)	whose gg grandfather was the brother of the early professional photographer John Counsell.
David Croal (Gibson's Landing, British Columbia, Canada)	a relative of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Templeton Croal
Ruth Croft (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)	a descendant of one of the Edinburgh photographers named John Lessels.
Frances Corbin (Herefordshire, England)	great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Duncan Wharton (Jun) who was a step-daughter of photographer, John Donaldson Edward
Frances Culham (Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England)	whose g.g.grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer, Thomas Buist
Sheldon Cunningham (Plano, Texas, USA)	whose second great granduncle was the pioneer Edinburgh photographer, James Good Tunny
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Mike Delaney (Edinburgh)	great-great-grandson of the Edinburgh street photographer, James Delaney
Faye Debenham (Vancouver)	descendant of Edwin Debenham
Maggi Dignall	Whose husband's great grandfather was the brother of the Portobello photographer, William Kyles
Guy Diston (New Zealand)	great-grandson of the Fife professional photographer and Edinburgh Photographic Society exhibitor, Adam Diston.
David Donaldson (Leeds, West Yorkshire, England)	great-grandson of the Edinburgh Teacher of Music and Photographer Wilhelm Christian Laubach.
Geoff Dawson Kent, England	Great great grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, James C H Balmain.
Sally Douglas (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)	John Douglas, photographer and portrait painter, was a brother of Sally's great grand-father Gabriel Douglas Watchmaker & Jeweller, b. 1822 Muirkirk, Ayrshire.
Drummond Young family (Edinburgh)	Lord Drummond Young, great-grandson of William Drummond Young and grandson of Edward Drummond Young
Maggie Dunlop (Selkirk, Scottish Borders))	Maggie Dunlop, whose great-grandfather's nephew was the Edinburgh photographer, William Swanston.
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Pennie Elfick Langport, Somerset, England	Daughter of John Moffat, and great grand-daughter of the Edinburgh professional photographer and President of Edinburgh Photographic Society, 1892-93, John Moffat
Marilyn Evan Norwich, Norfolk, England	whose great uncle was the Edinburgh photographer, Alec Roberts, who produced many postcard portraits.
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Valerie Fanning (North of Scotland)	a granddaughter of Archibald MacLucas, the "Grand Old Man" of Edinburgh Photogrpahic Society
Heather Fife	whose great great aunt married Alexander Gray Anderson
Norman Fisher Saratoga, New South Wales, Australia	whose father was the Edinburgh professional photographer, Jack Fisher.
John Francis (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)	grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Drummond, John Francis would like to learn more about the studio or family of John Drummond. If you have any information, can you please email me so that I can pass it on to him? Thank you. John Francis has already provided me with some family details and a photograph that I have included on this site.
Peter Francis (Lingfield, Surrey, England)	great-great-grandson of Thomas Rodger, and great-grandson of Thomas R Rodger for some fascinating insights into the Rodger family history.
G Much of the information above is based on notes provided by John Francis of Calgary, Canada, grandson of John Drummond.
Sanna Gaffney (Boone, North Carolina, USA))	whose mother Marjorie Fairbairn (b.1891) was granddaughter of John Kinninmound Fairbairn, a cousin of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Henry Fairbairn.
Valerie Gardner (Enfield, Middlesex, England)	g-g-g-g-grand-daughter of Alexander McGlashan, and g-g-g-grand-daughter of his son John.
Andy Gibson	g.g.g.grandson of the Glasgow photographer, John Douglas Portrait Painter + Photographer, b. 1813 Dollar, Clackmannon
Roni Gillingham	Related (but not sure exactly how) to the early photographer, James Drummond.
Douglas Glass (Craigleith, Edinburgh)	Douglas Glass is currently (2005) Treasurer of the Old Edinburgh Club. His great-grandfather was Richard Stuart Brown. The brother of his grandfather was Robert (Bobbie) Brown.
William Marshall Glen	great-grandson of Henry Graham Glen
Alex Gorrie (Linlithgow)	grandson of George R Mackay
Alex Goy (Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland)	descendant of the Ardrossan photographer, Walter Scott, born about 1866.
Jenny Goy (Peaslake Surrey, England)	descendant of Walter Scott, Ardrossan photographer, born about 1866.
John Graham (Loughborough, England)	member of the Laubach family.
Liz Graves (New Hampshire, USA)	great-granddaughter of the 1880s/1890s Edinburgh Photographic Society lecturer, Frederick Dundas Todd.
Melody Gray (New Zealand)	grand-daughter of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Claude Low, who had a studio at 72 Princes Street in 1906.
Jan de Groot (Amsterdam)	for a photograph of her g-g-g-grandmother taken by Rodger
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John J Hadden (Edinburgh)	great-great-grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Charles Wallace, and great-grandson of the Dalkeith photographer, Thomas Wallace.
Colleen Harnett (Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada)	great-great-great-granddaughter of the painter Hugh Paton who had a gallery in Princes Street and published books of engravings.
Graeme Harvey	great-great-great-grandson of the photographer Adolphus Ross Calder who was son in law of the Edinburgh photographer John Lessels
Marjory Hatch (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)	great -granddaughter of the Edinburgh photographer, John Donaldson Edward
Margaret Hay (Scottish Borders)	great -granddaughter of the Edinburgh amateur photographer, James Hay
Graham Hay (Far East, then New Zealand)	great-grandson of WJ Hay
Jaime Hayes Switzerland	whose 2 x great grandmother was May Susan Rose, sister of Jane Fordyce Rose who married E W Dallas.
Zak Henderson (Ontario)	descendant of James Henderson, PSS Exhibitor in the 1850s
Bryan Higgins	whose g.g.g.grandmother was the sister of the Edinburgh photographer John Lessels
Mac Horsburgh (Canada)	g.g.grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Horsburgh b.1835.
Nicola Horsburgh (Derby, Derbyshire, England)	g.g.granddaughter of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Horsburgh b.1835.
Frank Howie (Morningside, Edinburgh)	grandson of photographer, Howie, of Newmills / Torryburn, Fife,
Robyn Lloyd Hughes	whose great grandfather' was the photographic artist, James Hodges, who had a studio at Lothian Road, Edinburgh in 1860
Sue Hughes (South Yarra, Victoria, Australia)	whose great grandfather's cousin was Andrew Young who was employed by John Patrick in 1868.
John Humphrey (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)	Great- grandson of the Kilmarnock photographer, John Humphrey, whose wife's sister married the photographer Alexander Sutherland Mackay, possibly the brother of the Edinburgh photographer, James Millar Mackay
Alister Huth (Box Hill, Victoria, Australia)	Ggg-grandson of Alexander Seton McGlashon, and G-grandson of Margaret Seton McGlashon, the 7th of 8 children in the family of the Edinburgh photographer Alexander McGlashon.
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Veronika Ihlenfeldt (Victoria, Australia)	- for information on John Center and the Senter family, including details of one of John Center's photograph albums. - Veronika Ihlenfeldt's great great grandmother was Christina Senter, sister of the photographer and bagpipe maker John Center.
Evelyn Inglis	great great great granddaughter of James Gall, the elder in "the Pastor's visit" by Adamson and Hill, and great grand niece of D.O Hill
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James Jackson (Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada)	great-great-grandson of Alexander Jackson who joined the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1857.
Alex James (South of England)	grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Thomas Poulton Lugton.
John Jameson (Cheltenham)	gt.gt.grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Jameson.
Ken Johnston (Australia)	gt.gt.grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Charles Wallace.
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Karen (Kentucky)	for sending me an attractive cabinet print of her grandfather as a young child in Scottish dress.
Karen Kerr-Trudeau (Canada)	whose great-uncle was the father in law of George Henderson Laing. George Henderson Laing was son of the Edinburgh photographer, (same name) who worked for the Edinburgh photographer, Ovinius Davis.
Kathleen (Arbroath, Scotland)	2nd cousin, 4 times removed, of the early photographer and Photographic Society of Scotland Exhibitor, Alexander Crowe.
Malcolm Kindness	grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Fraser Lessels
Judy King (née Paton)	great-granddaughter of the Edinburgh photographer, Hugh Paton
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Blanche Laing (Edinburgh),	daughter of George Henderson Laing, who worked for many years for George Haliburton Balmain in Edinburgh and North Berwick.
Stuart Laing (Central Bedfordshire, England)	a distant relative of Claude Low
William Laing (Perth, Scotland)	son of photographer, George Henderson Laing, who was apprenticed under Ovinius Davis then Drummond Shiels then established his own business as a photographer in Broxburn, West Lothian in the 1920s.
Pat Lawback	whose husband is Victor, musician and musical teacher. Victor's grandfather was Heinrich Victor Lohr Laubach, inventor & musical instrument maker & repairer. His great grandfather was Wilhelm Christian Laubach, teacher of music and photographer. Thanks for info on several members of the Laubach family.
Maureen Lawn (Ayrshire, Scotland)	a member of the family of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Templeton Croal.
Dean Lennie (London)	grandson of William Lennie and my great-grand of Jim Lennie who came from Edinburgh/Dundee. Was this the same family as had the Lennie optician business in Princes Street?
Ann Lewis (Manchester)	great grand-daughter of the early professional photographer, William Walker.
Nina Lowden (Australia	great grand-daughter of the early professional photographer, Robert Turnbull, and g.g.g.grand-daughter of the professional photographer Charles Turnbull.
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Ian McC	g.g.g.g.g.nephew of the early PSS Member, photographer and architect, David Bryce.
Ian Macdonnell (Melbourne, Australia)	g.g.grandson of the Bombay Daguerreotypist, W H Stanley Crawford (1820-1883).
Donna McGlashon (Melbourne, Australia)	ggggg granddaughter of James McGlashon who was father of the photographer, Alexander McGlashon
Stewart McKendrick (Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Scotland)	grandson of A McKendrick who gave a Wednesday evening lecture to Edinburgh Photographic Society on X-Rays in 1915.
John McKechnie	whose great grand uncle was the Edinburgh photographer, James Gibb.
Catherine MacLucas (Caithness, Scotland)	a granddaughter of Archibald MacLucas, the "Grand Old Man" of Edinburgh Photographic Society
Penny MacLucas	granddaughter of Archibald MacLucas, the "Grand Old Man" of Edinburgh Photogrpahic Society
Donald A McLean (Norfolk)	husband of granddaughter of John Duncan Smith
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Barbara M (Blackburn, Victoria, Australia)	whose maternal grandmother was great niece of the Edinburgh photographer, William Barry.
David Man (Columbia University, New York, USA)	great grandson of Alphonse Louis Reis (1860 -1940) who, like his brother Charles Lionel Reis produced postcards of Edinburgh.
Helena Marker	daughter of CL Patrick, a descendant of the Patrick family of photographers.
Tony Martin-Jones (Canberra, ACT, Australia)	a distant relation of E R Yerbury b.1843, for details of the Yerbury family tree, including Eleanor D Yerbury.
Marjory Mechie	descendant of the Knott family that included James Brown Knott.
Alistair Meek Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England	whose great great grandfather, David Ballingall, married the daughter of the shoemaker James Diston. James was the brother of the Fife photographer, Adam Diston.
Sharon Melville (Australia)	The engraver, Francis Croll, is Sharon's 3rd great granduncle on her mothers side.
Helen W Mercer	William Mercer was a first cousin, 3 x removed to Helen's husband Ian Mercer.
Tammy Mitchell	A descendant of the Mitchell family that included the Edinburgh photographer, Grierson Mitchell.
John Moffat (Derby, Derbyshire England)	son of Edward Moffat, the last of the Moffat family of photographers with a studio in Princes Street until the early 1960s.
Nancy Jean Moisan (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)	Nancy Jean Moisan (formerly Nancy Jean Kyles) is great-granddaughter of the Portobello professional professional photographer, William Kyles
Mrs H Moncur (Edinburgh),	daughter of EPS Member Douglas J Fraser
Richard Morris	The Edinburgh photographer Thomas Begbie was the brother of the (great?) grandfather of Richard's son-in-law.
Linda Muller (Sweden)	whose grandfather was John Drummond Young, the brother of Edward Drummond Young.
Bill Murcutt	descendant of one of the three brothers of Alex Crow(e), one of the exhibitors in PSS Exhibition, December 1861 in Edinburgh
Andrew Murray	whose g-g-grandfather was William Munro, father of the photographers David Munro and John Robert Murray.
Derek Murray Grantham, Lincolnshire, England	whose mother's aunt, Helen nee Forbes, was married to the late C19 Edinburgh photographer, Robert Kemp Thomson.
Rona Murray	daughter of the EPS lecturer in 1965, Malcolm Murray.
Stephen Wallace Murray (Frankfurt, Germany)	Great-great-grandson of the Edinburgh photographer Charles Wallace, and great-grandson of the Dalkeith professional photographer Thomas Wallace.
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Clare Nancekivell (née Matravers) (New Zealand)	whose great grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer, Sydney C Salmon
Kaye Nicholls (New Zealand)	whose great great grandfather was the Edinburgh painter and photographer, William Barry.
Kathryne Newberry (Traverse City, Missouri, USA)	whose great great great grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer, Thomas Glen
Sherrilynn Nicol-Taylor (Salina, Utah, USA)	whose great great grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer and subsequently photographic editor in the USA, Dr John Nicol
Jean Nowlan (née Horsburgh) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	granddaughter of the Edinburgh photographer, John Horsburgh.
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Lesley O'Neil (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)	a descendant of the E M M Thomson. Was this the same lady as won Honourable Mention in the Edinburgh Photographic Society Exhibition in 1917?
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Chris(tina) Paton	grand-daughter of the Greenock photographer John Naysmith Paton, and great-grand daughter of the Greenock photographer, James Paton.
CL Patrick (Edinburgh)	a descendant of the Patrick family of photographers.
Dave Pattison (Edinburgh)	grandson of the Manageress of Jerome's Studio, Edinburgh and other branches.
Peppy Peters (France)	daughter of the Theatre photographer, Houston Rogers (d.1970), who gave a lecture to Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1958.
Doreen Powell (Kirkcaldy, Scotland) (previously Leeds, England)	a descendant - possibly great granddaughter - of W Mercer.
Mary Powell (Dorset, England)	whose uncle was Edward Drummond Young and grandfather was William Drummond Young.
Penny Powell (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)	granddaughter of Wilfred Allan Laubach, one of the Laubach family of musicians and photographers.
Vanessa Pringle (Perth, Western Australia)	g.g.granddaughter of the early Edinburgh photographer, Thomas Pringle
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Bruce Ralston (New Zealand)	whose great-grandmother married James Mazzini Tunny, one of the sons of James Good Tunny
Alison Ramos	great-granddaughter of Horatio Senftenberg Ross, the eldest son of the early Scottish photographer Horatio Ross
Nick Reeves	great-great-grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, John Lamb
Jim Reid	great-grandson of the first Wishaw photographer named Charles Reid
Debra Richards (Bedford, Ohio, USA)	granddaughter of John Steel and Jane Wardrope, and possibly related to the Edinburgh professional photographer, Adam Wardrope Steele.
Aileen Oman Riddet (Warwickshire England)	great-great granddaughter of George and Mary Ann Oman, and great grand-daughter of George's daughter Mary Ann.
Robin Riley (Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England)	granddaughter of Bella Youngclause, niece of John Nicholson who was father in law of the Edinburgh professional photographer, William Fairbairn.
Lesley A Robertson (Netherlands)	great-granddaughter of [which?] Low
Helen Robertson	daughter of James Mason who bought the Aberdour and Edinburgh studios from Charles Low
Frank Rushbrook (Edinburgh)	son of the Edinburgh photographer, A H Rushbrook
Ian Rushbrook (Edinburgh)	grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, A H Rushbrook
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Ron Saunders (Penn, Buckinghamshire, England)	grandson of John Bremner (1887-1945), photographer who worked for J Campbell Harper, Leith Walk, Leith, for most of his working life.
Thomas E (Ted) Scott Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Great grandson of Thomas Scott, of the Edinburgh photographic partnership M&T Scott
Lynda Sheppard	great grand-daughter of the architect and Photographic Society of Scotland Member, David Rhind
Maureen Sheppart (née McNally) Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada	daughter of William McNally, photographer at Jerome's studio, Edinburgh, in the 1950s and 1960s.
Barbara Simpson	daughter of Norward Inglis
David Simpson	son- in- law of Norward Inglis
Adrian Siswick (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England)	great-grandson of the Hawick, then Bradford, photographer T A Evans.
Kevin Smith (London)	whose great grandfather was George Croal, elder brother of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Templeton Croal
Ian J Durward Smith (Chicago, Illinois, USA)	grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, Robert James Durward.
Sharon Lorraine Smith Christchurch, New Zealand	- great great granddaughter of Peter Claude Low. - great niece of Claude Low (One of the above was an Edinburgh photographer) - neice of Edward Peter Low (another Edinburgh photographer)
I Spence (Edinburgh)	descendant, relationship not known, of Alexander Asher
David Spence	great-great-grandson of John I Spence, who together with his brother Charles Spence 'emigrated' from Unst, Shetland to Edinburgh, and became photographers around 1860. John Spence, photographer, had a studio at Musselburgh from 1880 until at least 1914.
Liz Stephens	New Zealand, who was married to Michael Counsell Stephens, great great grandson of the early Edinburgh and Brighton photographer John Counsell.
Jack Stooks	7 times great grandson of the Photographic Society of Scotland member and early photographer, sportsman and politician, Horatio Ross
Robert W Storm lower New England, USA	great-great-grandson of Robert Macpherson
Ian & Carole Stuart (Ontario)	Ian is probably the great grandson of John Stuart professional photographer in Keith, Banffshire from the 1870s, possibly the same photographer as J Stuart who joined the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1860.
Martin Sweet (Edinburgh)	A descendant of Charles Sweet, one of the judges in the Edinburgh Photographic Society's Open Exhibition in November 1902.
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P Thompson (Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland)	great grandson of Charles Moffat
Rod Dundas Todd	grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, Frederick Dundas Todd
Ray Townsend	grandson of Adolph Langfier
Mike Tracy (Illinois, USA),	whose great uncle was the professional photographer in Fife and Edinburgh, Thomas Buist
Elizabeth Trubuhovich (Auckland, New Zealand)	Also husband Ron, sister Alison and niece Christine. Elizabeth Trubuhovich's great-grandfather was he Edinburgh and Londonderry photographer Alexander Ayton
Bill Turner (Portobello History Society, Edinburgh)	grandson of Ebenezer Turner and nephew of the Edinburgh amateur photographer in the 1890s, Arthur J Turner.
Catherine M Tyrie Sarnia, Ontario, Canada	whose g.g.grandfather was Thomas White Morison, brother of John Clunie Morison who was the father of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Richard Stuart Brown.
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Margaret Urquhart (Edinburgh)	whose great-grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer, John Horsburgh b.1835. Margaret has provided me with research into the Horsburgh family carried out by her sister who died in September 2005.
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Anne Valyo (originally from Edinburgh)	a direct descendant of John McKean. She left a message in the EdinPhoto guest book on March 22, 2008, looking for other descendants
Beryl Roques Vosburgh (Islington, London)	whose great uncle was Walter Raleigh Britton Beryl Roques was a Member of the RPS Historical Group and ran a shop selling old photos in Islington for many years.
Ross Valentine (Southampton, Hampshire, England)	great great grandson of James Valentine, being Arnot Stirling's grandson and GD Valentine's great grandson.
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Karin Waddell	a relative of the Aberdeen and Edinburgh photographer and painter, John Lamb.
Malcolm H Walker- Kinnear (Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland)	descendant of the Knott family. James Brown Knott. was an Edinburgh professional photographer,
Valerie Walton (Boreham Wood, London, England)	great grand-daughter of the early Edinburgh professional photographer, Wilhelm Laubach.
Julie Warne	great grand-daughter of the early professional photographer, William Walker.
Jean Watts	descendant of the family of the Edinburgh photographers, Michael Muir Scott and Thomas Scott.
Randolph Webster (Newport on Tay, Fife, Scotland)	whose paternal grandfather was the Edinburgh professional photographer, RS Webster.
Myer Wexelstein (Edinburgh)	probably the son of James Wexelstein
Alastair White (Forfar, Scotland)	descendant of the family whose firm published post cards by RA Rayner, Edinburgh.
Chris Williams (Norfolk, England)	great grandson of the early Edinburgh photographer, James Good Tunny.
Allan Wilson	whose great grandfather's brother was the early Edinburgh photographer Thomas Vernon Begbie
Richard H Wilson	Great-grandson of J B Cartlidge
Karen Wood (Busselton, Western Australia, Australia)	great-granddaughter of the early Edinburgh photographer, Robert Turnbull
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Peter Yerbury (Edinburgh)	great-grandson of Edward Reuben Yerbury and son of David Stenlake Yerbury
Trevor Yerbury (Edinburgh)	great-grandson of Edward Reuben Yerbury and son of David Stenlake Yerbury
Russell Young (Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland)	for details and photograph of his great-grandfather, the Edinburgh a Hawick photographer, George Oman