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World War Two / Re: UK Seaforth Highlanders- Smith/Pickthall
« on: Friday 09 January 15 20:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Collen,

 As I wrote earlier in this topic I do have some info on your father and a lot more info on his relatives from Gatehouse of Fleet .
 I would be happy to pass on all the info I can.

 Regards
 Del

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The Common Room / Re: Will RootsChat be of help to you?
« on: Wednesday 26 June 13 11:28 BST (UK)  »
This site will be a lot of help to me, it has already helped me to give photograph restoration a try. The links to various registers I hope will help search for the English branch of my family. So all in all I am very pleased indeed I found this site.

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World War Two / Re: UK Seaforth Highlanders- Smith/Pickthall
« on: Monday 24 June 13 12:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
   Thank you for the warm welcomes to this site.

 Lil
    Please stress to your friend that apart from the photo  unfortunately all that we know about James is snippets of memories as my mother was very young when he emigrated .I would not want to raise her expectations that we perhaps know more than we do.  I can, however, be of a lot more help if she wanted to know about his very large family in Gatehouse of Fleet.

Regards
Del
   

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World War Two / Re: UK Seaforth Highlanders- Smith/Pickthall
« on: Monday 24 June 13 00:26 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
   I am a grandson of Archibald Pickthall, my mother is James Pickthalls' half-sister. During my research into our family tree we found that Archibald had adopted James, I do not know if in fact he was his natural father . We have some very old photographs of the family of which one is of three soldiers, wearing kilts. My mother said one of these soldiers was James, the faces of two of the men can be plainly seen , the third soldier is not so clear but perhaps still be recognisable as some facial features can be seen. The third soldier also appears to be very tall, my mother always referred  to James as 'Big Jim' perhaps this is James.
   I would be more than happy to send a copy of the photograph to the lady mentioned if she would like a copy, As a new member I am unsure how something like this could be done , any advice would be appreciated .

Del777
 

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