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Would you like help with the Macleans? Rebecca

Hi Rebecca,

I'd be grateful for any info you may have on my branch of the Raasay MacLeans. I've got back to John MacLean (my GGGrandfather), born circa 1806, but have hit a brick wall when trying to find his parents.

He married a Catherine ? and they had Malcolm (1837), Norman (1839), Isabella (1841), John (1844), Chirsty (1847) and Jessie (1850).

Many thanks for getting in touch. We are hoping to get back to Raasay next summer. It's been too long since we were last there.

Regards,

Geoff Goldsmith

Hi Sarah,

Judging from the direction of the shadows you have 'flare' from the sun. This can often be a problem late in the year as the sun is quite low in the sky even in the middle of the day.

A solution is to use a lens hood, which basically is a tube mounted on the front of the lens, which shields the lens from unwanted light. I have a lens hood from my local photographic shop which is made of rubber and collapses down when the camera is put in its case.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply. As is often the case it's harder to find any info on people after 1901 unless there are relatives still living who have memories or documents going back a hundred years.

The only other information I have is from my father who remembers when he was a small boy, in the early 1920's, going to visit one of his uncles, probably Horace, who had a butchers shop in Tunbridge Wells.

Further to Trystan's idea of a local photographic club it may be worth seeing if a local college or university has a photographic department, perhaps North Staffs Poly (if it's still called that) in Stoke could help.

Looking for Fanny Elizabeth CLEVERLEY in the 1881 census in Wiltshire, I finally found her listed as just Fanny Elizabeth in Folkestone, Kent. Presumably servants weren't entitled to a surname!