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Descendants and their Ancestors Thank you to t he following for telling me about their ancestors |
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Andy Aitken
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whose father's cousin was the Edinburgh photographer, George Morrison , son of George G Morrison |
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Elizabeth Allison , (Clermiston, Edinburgh) |
daughter of John Bowden, Leith Camera Club President 1967-68 |
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descendant of Thomas Annan |
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relative of John Ross |
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great-granddaughter of David Syme Hay |
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George
Thomas Ayton
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g.g.g.grandson of James Aiton (b.1749) , grandfather of Edinburgh photographer Alex Ayton . |
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for sending details of his father, EPS Member since the 1930s, Langley P Bain , and of the EPS premises at 16 Royal Terrace . |
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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 |
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Jean believes that John C Bambrick was a brother of my late husband's father, William Bambrick . |
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great-niece of William Barry |
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grandson of Sidney Charles Salmon |
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Maria I Bauman |
whose husband's grandfather was the professional photographer, Louis Saul Langfier |
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Janet
Beale
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3rd great grand-niece of Justine Henrietta Frederique Macrae, the wife of Horatio Ross . |
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Richard Beattie
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great great grandson of the Dunfermline, Linlithgow and Edinburgh photographer, James Paton . |
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Elaine Beaumont
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great niece of Ronald Train . |
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Geraldine Benzmann |
grand-daughter of the Edinburgh photographer, Claude Low |
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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. |
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Trina Bouvet
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grand-daughter of Edinburgh and Portobello photographer, Philip Ernest Low . |
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Debbie
Bowdler
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descendant of William Barry and WJC Barry . |
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Neil Bowdler
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descendant of William Barry and WJC Barry . |
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Doreen D Brady
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granddaughter of Louis Saul Langfier . |
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Geraldine Heather Benzmann |
great-granddaughter of Claude Low |
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Glenda Broadbent |
whose husband's grandfather was Douglas G. Glen - son of H Graham Glen . |
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Cathy Chick
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Great granddaughter of the Selkirk photographer and postcard publisher, AR Edwards , and granddaughter of his son, Robert Edwards. |
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Chris
Capes
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whose grandfather was the Edinburgh and Glasgow photographer in the 1890s and early 1900s, James Naysmith Paton |
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Mrs MH Catford
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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. |
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J Michael Coltart |
grand-son of the Edinburgh photographer, James Robert Coltart |
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Alison Coote
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grand-daughter of the Edinburgh photographer, William J Hay |
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John
Counsell
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whose gg grandfather was the brother of the early professional photographer John Counsell . |
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David Croal
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a relative of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Templeton Croal |
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Ruth Croft (Birmingham, West Midlands, England) |
a descendant of one of the Edinburgh photographers named John Lessels . |
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Frances Corbin
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great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Duncan Wharton (Jun) who was a step-daughter of photographer, John Donaldson Edward |
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Frances Culham
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whose g.g.grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer, Thomas Buist |
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Sheldon Cunningham
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whose second great granduncle was the pioneer Edinburgh photographer, James Good Tunny |
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Mike
Delaney
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great-great-grandson of the Edinburgh street photographer, James Delaney |
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Faye
Debenham
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descendant of Edwin Debenham |
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Whose husband's great grandfather was the brother of the Portobello photographer, William Kyles |
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Guy Diston
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great-grandson of the Fife professional photographer and Edinburgh Photographic Society exhibitor, Adam Diston . |
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David Donaldson
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great-grandson of the Edinburgh Teacher of Music and Photographer Wilhelm Christian Laubach . |
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Geoff Dawson
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Great great grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, James C H Balmain . |
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Sally Douglas
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John Douglas , photographer and portrait painter, was a brother of Sally's great grand-father Gabriel Douglas Watchmaker & Jeweller, b. 1822 Muirkirk, Ayrshire. |
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Drummond
Young family
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Lord Drummond Young, great-grandson of William Drummond Young and grandson of Edward Drummond Young |
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Maggie Dunlop (Selkirk, Scottish Borders)) |
Maggie Dunlop, whose great-grandfather's nephew was the Edinburgh photographer, William Swanston . |
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Pennie Elfick
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Daughter of John Moffat, and great grand-daughter of the Edinburgh professional photographer and President of Edinburgh Photographic Society, 1892-93, John Moffat |
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Marilyn Evan
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whose great uncle was the Edinburgh photographer, Alec Roberts , who produced many postcard portraits. |
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Valerie
Fanning
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a granddaughter of Archibald MacLucas , the "Grand Old Man" of Edinburgh Photogrpahic Society |
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Heather Fife |
whose great great aunt married Alexander Gray Anderson |
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Norman Fisher
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whose father was the Edinburgh professional photographer, Jack Fisher . |
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John Francis
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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. |
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Peter Francis
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great-great-grandson of Thomas Rodger , and great-grandson of Thomas R Rodger for some fascinating insights into the Rodger family history. |
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G Much of the information above is based on notes provided by John Francis of Calgary, Canada, grandson of John Drummond . |
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whose mother Marjorie Fairbairn (b.1891) was granddaughter of John Kinninmound Fairbairn, a cousin of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Henry Fairbairn . |
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g-g-g-g-grand-daughter of Alexander McGlashan , and g-g-g-grand-daughter of his son John. |
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Andy Gibson |
g.g.g.grandson of the Glasgow photographer, John Douglas Portrait Painter + Photographer , b. 1813 Dollar, Clackmannon |
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Roni Gillingham |
Related (but not sure exactly how) to the early photographer, James Drummond . |
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Douglas Glass is currently (2005) Treasurer of the Old Edin burgh Club. His great-grandfather was Richard Stuart Brown . The brother of his grandfather was Robert (Bobbie) Brown. |
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great-grandson of Henry Graham Glen |
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grandson of George R Mackay |
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descendant of the Ardrossan photographer, Walter Scott, born about 1866. |
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Jenny Goy
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descendant of Walter Scott, Ardrossan photographer, born about 1866. |
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member of the Laubach family. |
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great-granddaughter of the 1880s/1890s Edinburgh Photographic Society lecturer, Frederick Dundas Todd . |
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grand-daughter of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Claude Low , who had a studio at 72 Princes Street in 1906. |
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for a photograph of her g-g-g-grandmother taken by Rodger |
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Joh
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Hadden
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great-great-grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Charles Wallace , and great-grandson of the Dalkeith photographer, Thomas Wallace. |
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Colleen Harnett
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great-great-great-granddaughter of the painter Hugh Paton who had a gallery in Princes Street and published books of engravings. |
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Graeme Harvey |
great-great-great-grandson of the photographer Adolphus Ross Calder who was son in law of the Edinburgh photographer John Lessels |
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Marjory Hatch
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great -granddaughter of the Edinburgh photographer, John Donaldson Edward |
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Margaret Hay
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great -granddaughter of the Edinburgh amateur photographer, James Hay |
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Graham Hay
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great-grandson of WJ Hay |
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Jaime Hayes
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whose 2 x great grandmother was May Susan Rose, sister of Jane Fordyce Rose who married E W Dallas . |
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Zak
Henderson
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descendant of James Henderson , PSS Exhibitor in the 1850s |
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Bryan Higgins |
whose g.g.g.grandmother was the sister of the Edinburgh photographer John Lessels |
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Mac Horsburgh
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g.g.grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Horsburgh b.1835. |
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Nicola Horsburgh
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g.g.granddaughter of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Horsburgh b.1835. |
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Frank Howie
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grandson of photographer, Howie , of Newmills / Torryburn, Fife, |
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Robyn Lloyd Hughes
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whose great grandfather' was the photographic artist, James Hodges , who had a studio at Lothian Road, Edinburgh in 1860 |
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Sue Hughes
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whose great grandfather's cousin was Andrew Young who was employed by John Patrick in 1868. |
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John Humphrey
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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 |
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Alister
Huth
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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
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- 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 . |
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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
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great-great-grandson of Alexander Jackson who joined the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1857. |
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Alex James
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grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Thomas Poulton Lugton . |
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John Jameson
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gt.gt.grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Jameson . |
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Ken Johnston
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gt.gt.grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, Charles Wallace . |
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Karen
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for sending me an attractive cabinet print of her grandfather as a young child in Scottish dress. |
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Karen
Kerr-Trudeau
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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 . |
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2nd cousin, 4 times removed, of the early photographer and Photographic Society of Scotland Exhibitor, Alexander Crowe. |
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grandson of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Fraser Lessels |
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great-granddaughter of the Edinburgh photographer, Hugh Paton |
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Blanche
Laing
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daughter of George Henderson Laing, who worked for many years for George Haliburton Balmain in Edinburgh and North Berwick. |
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(Central Bedfordshire, England) |
a distant relative of Claude Low |
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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. |
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whose husband is
Victor, musician and musical teacher. Victor's
grandfather was Heinrich Victor Lohr Laubach, inventor &
musical instrument maker & repairer.
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Maureen Lawn
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a member of the family of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Templeton Croal. |
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Dean Lennie
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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? |
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Ann Lewis
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great grand-daughter of the early professional photographer, William Walker . |
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Nina Lowden
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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. |
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Ian Macdonnell
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g.g.grandson of the Bombay Daguerreotypist,
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Donna McGlashon
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ggggg granddaughter of James McGlashon who was father of the photographer, Alexander McGlashon |
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Stewart McKendrick (Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Scotland) |
grandson of A McKendrick who gave a Wednesday evening lecture to Edinburgh Photographic Society on X-Rays in 1915. |
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John McKechnie |
whose great grand uncle was the Edinburgh photographer, James Gibb . |
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Catherine
MacLucas
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a granddaughter of Archibald MacLucas , the "Grand Old Man" of Edinburgh Photographic Society |
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Penny MacLucas |
granddaughter of Archibald MacLucas , the "Grand Old Man" of Edinburgh Photogrpahic Society |
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husband of granddaughter of John Duncan Smith |
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whose maternal grandmother was great niece of the Edinburgh photographer, William Barry . |
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great grandson of Alphonse Louis Reis (1860 -1940) who, like his brother Charles Lionel Reis produced postcards of Edinburgh. |
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daughter of CL Patrick , a descendant of the Patrick family of photographers. |
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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. |
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Marjory Mechie |
descendant of the Knott family that included James Brown Knott . |
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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. |
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Sharon Melville
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The engraver, Francis Croll, is Sharon's 3rd great granduncle on her mothers side. |
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Helen W Mercer |
William Mercer was a first cousin, 3 x removed to Helen's husband Ian Mercer. |
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Tammy Mitchell |
A descendant of the Mitchell family that included the Edinburgh photographer, Grierson Mitchell . |
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John Moffat
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son of Edward Moffat, the last of the Moffat family of photographers with a studio in Princes Street until the early 1960s. |
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Nancy Jean Moisan
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Nancy Jean Moisan (formerly Nancy Jean Kyles) is great-granddaughter of the Portobello professional professional photographer, William Kyles |
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Mrs
H Moncur
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daughter of EPS Member Douglas J Fraser |
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The Edinburgh photographer Thomas Begbie was the brother of the (great?) grandfather of Richard's son-in-law. |
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Linda Muller
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whose grandfather was John Drummond Young, the brother of Edward Drummond Young . |
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descendant of one of the three brothers of Alex Crow(e), one of the exhibitors in PSS Exhibition, December 1861 in Edinburgh |
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whose g-g-grandfather was William Munro, father of the photographers David Munro and John Robert Murray . |
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Derek Murray
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whose mother's aunt, Helen nee Forbes, was married to the late C19 Edinburgh photographer, Robert Kemp Thomson. |
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daughter of the EPS lecturer in 1965, Malcolm Murray . |
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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
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whose great grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer, Sydney C Salmon |
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Kaye Nicholls
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whose great great grandfather was the Edinburgh painter and photographer, William Barry . |
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Kathryne Newberry
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whose great great great grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer, Thomas Glen |
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Sherrilynn
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whose great great grandfather was the Edinburgh photographer and subsequently photographic editor in the USA, Dr John Nicol |
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Jean Nowlan
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granddaughter of the Edinburgh photographer, John Horsburgh . |
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Lesley O'Neil
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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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grand-daughter of the Greenock photographer John Naysmith Paton , and great-grand daughter of the Greenock photographer, James Paton. |
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CL Patrick
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a descendant of the Patrick family of photographers. |
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Dave Pattison
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grandson of the Manageress of Jerome's Studio , Edinburgh and other branches. |
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Peppy Peters
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daughter of the Theatre photographer, Houston Rogers (d.1970) , who gave a lecture to Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1958. |
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Doreen
Powell
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a descendant - possibly great granddaughter - of W Mercer . |
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Mary Powell
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whose uncle was Edward Drummond Young and grandfather was William Drummond Young . |
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Penny Powel
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granddaughter of Wilfred Allan Laubach, one of the Laubach family of musicians and photographers. |
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Vanessa Pringle
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g.g.granddaughter of the early Edinburgh photographer, Thomas Pringle |
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whose great-grandmother married James Mazzini Tunny, one of the sons of James Good Tunny |
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great-granddaughter of Horatio Senftenberg Ross, the eldest son of the early Scottish photographer Horatio Ross |
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Nick Reeves |
great-great-grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, John Lamb |
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great-grandson of the first Wishaw photographer named Charles Reid |
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Debra Richards
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granddaughter of John Steel and Jane Wardrope, and possibly related to the Edinburgh professional photographer, Adam Wardrope Steele. |
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Aileen Oman Riddet
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great-great granddaughter of George and Mary Ann Oman, and great grand-daughter of George's daughter Mary Ann. |
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Robin Riley
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granddaughter of Bella Youngclause, niece of John Nicholson who was father in law of the Edinburgh professional photographer, William Fairbairn. |
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Lesley A Robertson
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great-granddaughter of [which?] Low |
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daughter of James Mason who bought the Aberdour and Edinburgh studios from Charles Low |
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Frank Rushbrook
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son of the Edinburgh photographer, A H Rushbrook |
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Ian Rushbrook
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grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, A H Rushbrook |
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Ron Saunders
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grandson of John Bremner (1887-1945), photographer who worked for J Campbell Harper , Leith Walk, Leith, for most of his working life. |
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Thomas E (Ted) Scott
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Great grandson of Thomas Scott, of the Edinburgh photographic partnership M&T Scott |
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great grand-daughter of the architect and Photographic Society of Scotland Member, David Rhind |
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Maureen Sheppart
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada |
daughter of William McNally, photographer at Jerome's studio, Edinburgh, in the 1950s and 1960s. |
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Barbara Simpson |
daughter of Norward Inglis |
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son- in- law of Norward Inglis |
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great-grandson of the Hawick, then Bradford, photographer T A Evans . |
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Kevin Smith
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whose great grandfather was George Croal, elder brother of the Edinburgh professional photographer, John Templeton Croal |
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Ian J Durward Smith
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grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, Robert James Durward . |
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Sharon Lorraine Smith
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- great great granddaughter of Peter Claude
Low.
(One of the above was an Edinburgh photographer)
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neice of Edward Peter Low
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I Spence
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descendant, relationship not known, of Alexander Asher |
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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 . |
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Liz Stephens |
New Zealand, who was married to Michael Counsell Stephens, great great grandson of the early Edinburgh and Brighton photographer John Counsell. |
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Jack Stooks |
7 times great grand son of the Photographic Society of Scotland member and early photographer, sportsman and politician, Horatio Ross |
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Robert W Storm
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great-great-grandson of Robert Macpherson |
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Ian & Carole Stuart
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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. |
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Martin Sweet
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A descendant of Charles Sweet, one of the judges in the Edinburgh Photographic Society's Open Exhibition in November 1902. |
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Thompson
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great grandson of Charles Moffat |
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Rod Dundas Todd |
grandson of the Edinburgh photographer, Frederick Dundas Todd |
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Ray Townsend |
grandson of Adolph Langfier |
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Mike Tracy
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whose great uncle was the professional photographer in Fife and Edinburgh, Thomas Buist |
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Elizabeth Trubuhovich
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Also husband Ron , sister Alison and niece Christine. Elizabeth Trubuhovich's great-grandfather was he Edinburgh and Londonderry photographer Alexander Ayton |
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Bill Turner
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grandson of Ebenezer Turner and nephew of the Edinburgh amateur photographer in the 1890s, Arthur J Turner . |
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Catherine M Tyrie
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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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M
argaret
Urquhart
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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
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a direct descendant of John McKean. She left a message in the EdinPhoto guest book on March 22, 2008, looking for other descendants |
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Beryl
Roques Vosburgh
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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. |
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Ross Valentine
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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 . |
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Malcolm H Walker- Kinnear ( Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland) |
descendant of the Knott family. James Brown Knott . was an Edinburgh professional photographer, |
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Valerie Walton
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great grand-daughter of the early Edinburgh professional photographer, Wilhelm Laubach . |
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Julie Warne |
great grand-daughter of the early professional photographer, William Walker . |
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Jean Watts |
descendant of the family of the Edinburgh photographers, Michael Muir Scott and Thomas Scott . |
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Randolph
Webster
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whose paternal grandfather was the Edinburgh professional photographer, RS Webster . |
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Myer
Wexelstein
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probably the son of James Wexelstein |
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Alastair
White
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descendant of the family whose firm published post cards by RA Rayner, Edinburgh . |
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Chris Williams
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great grandson of the early Edinburgh photographer, James Good Tunny . |
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whose great grandfather's brother was the early Edinburgh photographer Thomas Vernon Begbie |
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Great-grandson of J B Cartlidge |
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Karen
Wood
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great-granddaughter of the early Edinburgh photographer, Robert Turnbull |
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Peter Yerbury
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great-grandson of Edward Reuben Yerbury and son of David Stenlake Yerbury |
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Trevor Yerbury
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great-grandson of Edward Reuben Yerbury and son of David Stenlake Yerbury |
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Russell Young
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for details and photograph of his great-grandfather, the Edinburgh a Hawick photographer, George Oman |
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