Hi Patti
Yes, sure, that's fine.
I've tried to upload with this message the other photo I mentioned, of my great grandfather William Cook with his Maclean aunts, taken in 1872, when he was 4. However, the upload has failed, as the attachment size is too big, so I'll have to try shrinking it or finding another avenue.
I've also found the paperwork I mentioned, with mentions of militia service. My memory fails me, but I think I must have received this from my nanna's cousin Harold Cook, who had been in touch with Ruth MacDonald (mentioned earlier in this thread) and he got it from her, but it mentions Ruth in the third person at one point, so someone else again put at least some of it together. There's a copy letter to Ruth within it, though, from 1987, which focusses on whether Maclean or it's variants was a known gypsy name, but also has interesting comments on Silence Smith and more. I'll have to copy this all to you. They're not great photocopies, though, so I'll try taking photos with my phone, but I may have to transcribe at least some of it.
I've an interesting book 'Tolstoy in London' re a trip Leo Tolstoy made there in 1861 - I suppose he's a relative of ours now, too, if a little bit distant and not blood. On another line I do happen to be not so distantly blood-related to the present King of Jordan, as his father King Hussein married a Suffolk lass. Could maybe come in handy if I ever visit Petra....
Shane