Photohraph of Pat Innes and family

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I have my gt uncles photograph album and this photo is one of several for which  I cannot identify the connection. I think Pat Innes was a contemporary of my gt Uncle Bob Livingston who was born 1891 and probably came to Londonderry shortly after 1911. The Livingstons lived at Glendermott. I am posting this here because I just noticed that the wallpaper is the same as another photo of similar period, of the grandson of  Bob's sister Muriel Livingston and Billy Wilson, who lived in Londonderry.

I do have names on the reverse of daughters and grandchildren but they could be alive. Can anyone confrim this family s not related to the Livingstons?

[lmgnz]

Further information. William Wilson, b 1901, husband of Muriel, worked for the firm of  of John Maxwell of Great James Sr, Londonderry. Bob Livingston has a newspaper clipping with a reference number under the photo 41TLS25.  William's wife Muriel Livingston who died 1963 is not in the photograph but their daughter Iris born 1929 is there. Iris married John Canning. The photograph of her son  with the same wallpaper background, was probably taken in the 1960s.

Bob Livingston left Ireland in 1928 but left Londonderry sometime before that and was working on a family farm in Skreen Sligo before he left for the Unite States. Bob returned to Sligo in the early 1960s and died 1973.

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I have just found the answer to my question in a letter dated 1997 from a Clarke relative of mine. John.  Pat Innes was a fisherman from Buckie on the Moray coast of Scotland. In 1918 he fell ill while off the coast near Derry and he lodged with the Livingstons in Derry while he recovered. My gt grandmother Margaret Livingston nee Clarke nursed him back to health over a period of several months.

This letter also said that Bob had returned to Sligo in 1949 and in the 1960s often mentioned his great friend Pat Innes and wondered what had happened to him. So John who was working in Scotland contacted a newspaper with a circulation in the area sometime in or after 1965, and quickly got a response from Pat's son. The two old friends then kept up a correspondence until they both died in 1973.