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Inverness / Re: COS Ministers
« on: Saturday 07 September 24 22:45 BST (UK) »
Thanks, GR2, that's a great help. Your skills amaze me. Very grateful.
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Inverness / Re: COS Ministers
« on: Saturday 07 September 24 19:26 BST (UK) »
Thanks, Alan Boyd, good references, much obliged.
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Inverness / Re: COS Ministers
« on: Saturday 07 September 24 19:25 BST (UK) »
Thanks, GR2. Your link is great, works fine and I found the Mcmichael references but the links to the Fasti pages would not open. I'll keep trying. Much obliged, it certainly proves both brothers were in fact Ministers there.
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Inverness / COS Ministers
« on: Saturday 07 September 24 17:45 BST (UK) »
Can someone please help me trace past ministers of the Duncansburgh Church in Fort William. I am looking to see if Duncan McMichael and his brother David Colville McMichael were both at some time ministers at this church. I have old family notes to say they were but need to confirm.
David, I think, in 1922. Duncan in about 1890?
David, I think, in 1922. Duncan in about 1890?
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Wednesday 27 September 23 17:45 BST (UK) »
Thanks, everyone, for your brilliant efforts. I will follow this up and see if I can get some thing more definitive, but its certainly a great lead and I am extremely grateful for your findings.
I've read the story of John Stevenson and it in itself is most impressive, these 19th Century missionaries were hard and dedicated men and women, one can't but greatly admire their tenacity.
Jaamac
I've read the story of John Stevenson and it in itself is most impressive, these 19th Century missionaries were hard and dedicated men and women, one can't but greatly admire their tenacity.
Jaamac
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 19:34 BST (UK) »Perhaps a long-shot, but could he be a missionary - in China? HIs dress certainly looks like a man of the cloth.
Good thinking, thanks.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 15:10 BST (UK) »Hope this helps, I have inverted the image. It could say Dumfriesshire.
Carol
Do you think the 'squiggles' in the centre of the board are Chinese writing?
Jaamac
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 15:09 BST (UK) »Search for '<your graphics software> <your operating system> invert colours' e.g. 'paint windows invert colours'.
Regarding the locket, I thought it might be a sacred heart but I'm not sure. Annoyingly I am pretty certain that I've seen something similar before.
Thinking of something like this, not convinced that its a Luckenbooth or a Vlaams (Flemish) heart.
S_L
Very similar, but I agree, not quite there. I was wondering if it had some military significance.
J
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 15:01 BST (UK) »
Thanks, Carol, nice try. I've convinced myself that it is Dumfriesshire, and that he was 47 years there but unfortunately can't get beyond that. Grateful for your help.
J
J