From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Feb 28 08:25:31 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1SFPVjb013680; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:25:31 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1SFPQK3011237 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:25:26 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1SCtlFI011908 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:55:47 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1SCtlL5011907 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:55:47 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1SBmrFI011736 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:48:53 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1SEINYx002094 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:18:23 -0700 X-Envelope-From: rothycat@hotmail.com Tue Feb 28 07:18:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1SEINjb002083 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:18:23 -0700 Received: from hotmail.com (bay113-dav15.bay113.hotmail.com [65.54.168.87]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1SEIMIn014887 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:18:22 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:18:17 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 198.103.171.2 by BAY113-DAV15.phx.gbl with DAV; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:18:14 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [198.103.171.2] X-Originating-Email: [rothycat@hotmail.com] X-Sender: rothycat@hotmail.com From: "Maggie Barron" To: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:18:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Feb 2006 14:18:17.0728 (UTC) FILETIME=[D1E87000:01C63C71] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Mystery Photo - Scotland to Canada http://community.webshots.com/photo/115568493/1173491445053548326NUbWXO# 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