Fresh Blood

We've had a good result today, Janet Jongebloed has these pix of Jeannie Mainnie with her neice, Susan Watson - Mrs MacCallum - and some of her family, which I used before. There are two women whose names Janet couldn't quite make out from the back of the photo and a man who isn't named. I sent the pix to Sonya, Ina McCallum's granddaughter, via Donna, who is her best friend - just like their great grandmas were.

 

Sonya said she had the same picture in front of her and was just going to scan it! Between us -and with the help of Sonya's mother Sandra, we have worked out the sisters with white collars are Peg Cowper - Allison Cowper's great auntie - and, from the caption on the back, her sister Mary who was home from Australia with her daughter, the blonde girl with the doll. Update - not Australia, but South Africa

I didn't know who the man was but Sonya knew him fine. she said, "He is Annie and Susan's dad - Alexander Duncan Watson b12 Oct 1864 - d 26 Sept 1949 (my mum used to call him 'Daydee') He lived at 8 Pilot Sq."  Susie McCallum is wearing the jumber and Ena has the pigtails. The girl with the whiite blouse and dark bow is described as 'a stranger' obviously somebody not related or worth telling Auntie Annie about. We don't know who sent the photo to America, but she calls JM 'Granny' - not 'Mother' as in a previous picture and reminds Auntie Annie that Granny is wearing the frock she (Annie) had sent her.

 

If they all look relatively recent, here's one that doesn't! Susan again, but with Susie as a baby, Rosie and Alex and her hat, which deserves a mention, taken around 1910, Sonya thinks.

Here's another old fashioned, formal looking one of both our family's Main cousins - Maggie, Elsie, Ina and Alex Main. 

Now a completely different set of children - on the beach. Sonya's grandma, Ina is the tall one on the right, Sonya thinks it must have been around 1924, juding by the age of Ina.Does anybody recognise any of them? 

And now something to gladden a lot of hearts, I am sure. Sandra Lyon babysitting on the beach. She looks lovely. The bald baby, with unbabylike bags under his eyes - oh, maybe they are dimples - can often be seen on the beach today, still looking much the same, if taller, and better able to walk unaided. This picture brings our two branches of the same family back together again.

Thanks Sonya for your quick scanning work and all your dates.