Old Family Photographs

My fourth? cousin - second cousin twice removed? Janet Jongebloed in America has kindly scanned some old family photographs and made the images available. Janet is the daughter of Bruce, Jean Thomson's eldest son.

Here are some that may be of interest.

 The Sisters looking very summery, with their husbands, but whose wedding was it?

 Carol's birthday

A run in a bus - I don't recognise the man on the left, or the couple in front of the door of the bus.

"Fittie Picnic" is written on the back of this one, but maybe that's a joke, because it is such a big family - going somewhere? or saying "Cheerio" to Auntie Annie? I think these are David, Donald and Diane Torr at the front with that lovely girl in the bonnet and her brother standing in front of Robert and William Lamb.

Auntie Elsie looks like our Jean Gray - on Jean's Facebook page, Caroline has writtten that Jean looks like Auntie Elsie and Mother taken at Butlins.

Uncle Bert, father of Beattie, Thelma, Jeannie and Tommy Esson, with his spaniels. This pic might have been taken by P&J or something - it has Aberdeen printed on the back.

Is this Thelma with her father's dogs? Note the photographer's use of tarpaulin to tidy the background.

 Granda and Grandma outside No1 - you can just see number 42 at the door, which must have been the number counted from Pocra Quay.

Grandma, Tibbie and their mother in Finzean - this is probably my favourite.

The pic says Elsie is turning round and Thelma is crying, Auntie Annie would have recognised her sisters - and mother in the middle? (Grandma and Auntie Maggie) I wonder where this was taken, any ideas? 

Similar, but the mamas have swapped places. Who is the lady with the baby behind Grandma - is it a McKessock?and the two ladies at the back? I think this is in Finzean. Who is the little dark haired girl in front? and the boys? she reminds me of somebody we all know and love, who has grown up now.

A picnic on a hill with a lighthouse in the background. Is that Annie Watson and one of her sisters on the right - could that be Grandma with a scratch over her face, behind Annie. I think the girl in front of Annie loks like Jean Baxter, but obviously couldn't be her, by age - would it be a Baxter, or Lizzie? Is the first on on the left Auntie Maggie, this person is in other photos, but Maggie looks like Beatrice in the pix. Auntie Annie and Uncle Bert are in the middle, on the far side of the tablecloth.

 Update - since I've gone through so many pix I can recognise some more faces now and Sonya knows all the Watsons and McCallums, going by the age of Ina McCallum, b 1913, it might be around 1922.   So we now have - l to r - girl w. black socks - Ina McCallum, Auntie Maggie w. Jeannie Esson, Susan (Watson) McCallum w. Ena, Jean (Main) Walker w. Tommy Esson?, boy, Susie McCallum, lady , possibly Peggy Cowper but not sure, man, boy, woman w little girl, Uncle Bert, Auntie Anne, Bella Watson, Thom (Watson) Stephen, Grandma (Elsie Walker), Annie Watson, woman , boy.

 

Grandma on the beach with Auntie Elsie, Auntie Annie at the other end. Who is the second one with the baby? The third one looks young, she looks like Carol, could it be Auntie Maggie, and would that be Tommy Esson in front? - I've looked at her with the zoom and she looks like Betty Knight so I think it must be Tibbie. Who is walking the crying? baby down the sand? There are the remains of a wreck behind them.

 Lizzie and David Baxter, I wondered, but Auntie Isobel says, 'No',

 

 Tibbie and Lizzie in front of the monument - not sure of their clicks, though - Tibbie's could be Sandy; what about Lizzzie's?

 This one of Auntie Annie is labelled "Immigrant, 1926"

I think, now, that the rest of these were taken in America, their clothes are much smarter

 

I'll do some more when I have time, you can leave a comment if you recognise anybody in the pix. Thanks again to Janet for scanning them.