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Scotland / Re: Jacobite prisoners from 1745
« on: Saturday 10 October 20 11:04 BST (UK)  »
I have been looking at the list of Jacobite prisoners posted here for James Neilson. He is not listed but his name does appear in the catalogue entries for three consecutive lists in the National Archives:
SP 36/79/1/28 'Prisoners take at Carlisle' 1745
SP 36/80/1/3 'Return of the Scotch Rebel garrison at Carlisle' 30 December 1745, and
SP 36/92/1/81 'List of rebel prisoners on whom the lot has not yet fallen...' November 1746.

Does anyone have any experience of these lists in the National Archives or know if they have been published? Can anyone suggest what might have happened to James Neilson?
Joe

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Midlothian / Re: Thomas Vernon Begbie 1841 - 1915
« on: Monday 21 May 18 21:52 BST (UK)  »
I thought I would respond to this discussion here as I have had no response to the discussion on the British Photographic History website on the same subject. I am the author of Thomas Begbie's Edinburgh: A Mid Victorian Portrait (Edinburgh 1992) and I carried out the research on the photographer as well as printing his glass negatives.

I was not able to discover his birth date on the OPR, even using a fuzzy search and decided that the Census was probably as close as it was possible to get until other evidence presented itself. His age in all later census records corresponds to the 1841 census. He is listed in the 1861 census, aged 20 as a "Photographer", living in lodgings at 121 Rose Street. This is a very confident statement and it could be that Begbie was working with a camera from age 15, supplying negatives for someone like Alexander McGlashon, who had the facilities to print them and the finance to publish them.

Those interested can see my contributions on the BPH site:
http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/thomas-begbie-views-of?xg_source=activity

Joe


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