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Lancashire / Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« on: Saturday 03 August 24 13:53 BST (UK)  »
It seems Richard Lee didn't take it over until 1908/09 so the 02 must refer to something else

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Lancashire / Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« on: Tuesday 30 July 24 20:29 BST (UK)  »
Full image of the back. The postcard isn't mine, it's from someone I've started following on Twitter/X
https://x.com/PaulSuttonKing/status/1817826627088228392
I do agree it says driver. Thanks to you lot, the main part of the mystery has been solved.

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Lancashire / Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« on: Tuesday 30 July 24 19:01 BST (UK)  »
Had another good look at this. Could it possibly say "Joe Meakin, owner" instead of driver? Sept 02?

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Lancashire / Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« on: Tuesday 30 July 24 13:53 BST (UK)  »
I think the Black Bull looks very, very promising. The gap with trees visible and the back corner of another building is a good match. Thank you so much to everyone, especially ShaunJ. I don't think I would have got this as I was too focused on LEES.

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Lancashire / Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« on: Tuesday 30 July 24 10:27 BST (UK)  »
I'm beginning to think it may actually have been J W Lees but for some reason the photograph has been altered at some time for some reason. Why that would be done though is beyond me. I even thought it might be the Spring Inn, Broad Lane, Rochdale which is still there and a J W Lees property. R B Lees is not really getting me anything connected to inns, hotels, brewers, etc.

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Lancashire / Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« on: Tuesday 30 July 24 07:06 BST (UK)  »
Sorry, just to be clear it's a postcard mystery rather than family tree. I have no connection to the area. Lees is very highly concentrated in Lancs - 40% of all UK Lees were in Lancs at the 1891 census, and Yates was also founded in Lancs in 1884. That's why I think the photo is from the area. Just trying to tap into local knowledge.

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Lancashire / R B Lees Coaching Inn
« on: Monday 29 July 24 18:32 BST (UK)  »
Trying to identify a mystery photo. The sign is chopped off but quite possibly it's LEES and pretty sure it's somewhere in Lancs. Has anyone heard of an R B Lees in this context of a coaching inn or off-sales booze attached to it? Photo is very early 1900s as there is hand written reference to the coach driver being Joe Meakin, Sept 1902. Hoping to identify the inn and see if it is still there.

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Perthshire / Re: Badroach
« on: Saturday 10 April 21 21:27 BST (UK)  »
These are the ten children that I know of:
Births reg'd in Kingussie
Daniel b abt 1794 d1866 married Isobel Craig
Laury or Laurence 1795-1876 married Marg. Fairweather

Born/reg'd in Kilspindie
Mary b1798
Euphame/Euphemie 1800-1883 married William Taylor
Catherine 1802-1876 married Robert Linkater?
Isabel b1807 married someone called Miller?
James b1809
Margaret b1810 married Alex Pullar?, went to NZ?
Plus
Alexander b abt 1816 in Cargill Perthshire d1888, emigrated to Aus, married Ann West
Kinnear b abt 1818 Collace, Perthshire d1905 married John Brown

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Perthshire / Re: Badroach
« on: Saturday 10 April 21 21:10 BST (UK)  »
First time I've been on here in ages!
Janet McPherson is my 4x great grandmother. I'm pretty sure it's Badenoch as she does have some connection there. Her first two children were born in Kingussie which is the same area. I'm descended from her son Daniel, their first child.
Are you descended from one of her ten children? I know very little about Janet or her husband David, other than he was a miller from Kilspindie where the majority of their children were born.
I'm in agreement, the Fortingall Janet McP is a different person.

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