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From: "Barron, Margaret" <>
Subject: Mystery Photo
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:36:42 -0500


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The photo above (click on link) was passed down through the generations of the Grandmother's family. My grandmother told me before she passed away that her grandfather, James Tait Shiells told the family "never to forget who these people are (the people in the photo) and to always remember them"....she doesn't remember him ever saying who the couple were (I'm assuming they're a couple). The photo is a 'james Inglis cabinet photo' taken in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and there's no date on the photo, but James Inglis was a photographer in Montreal between 1866-mid 1880's.
I was looking closer at the photo and I noticed that the man is wearing an odd-looking suit with some kind of black material around his neck that lookks as if it's attached to the suit or could be a cape of some kind. I also noticed that this material appears to be attached to some 'strings' that are draped across his chest. He's holding a rolled-up paper of some kind, although this may just be a prop and the woman is holding a bible. These ancesters of my great-great grandfather (my grandmother's grandfather) all emigrated from the Borders area in Scotland, mostly from Roxburgh. Does anyone know who these people might be or at least what kind of suit/uniform the man is wearing?
The couple most likely has ties to one or several of these families:
Shiells, Tait, Hislop/Hyslop, Muir, Candlish/McCandlish, Boa, Turnbull.

Thanks!
Maggie Barron
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


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