Who Are You? I Really Want to Know!
The pictures below are taken from a photo album passed down to me from my paternal great grandmother. I never knew her, and my genealogy quest began after my grandmother had died. My dad couldn't help with the identification process and so I'm asking for help! The family names were most likely Mackey (Mackay), Johnston, Sprague, Spooner, Hay, Reoch, Walker, Eglington, Whitten, Beattie and possibly others if they were not family members. The locality of the pictures are mainly Leitrim, Donegal, Louth, Antrim in Ireland, Leith in Scotland and Boston and New York in the US.
If you can help, please email me and I'd be happy to exchange whatever information I have. If you copy or use a photograph, please make sure you attribute it to: Photograph in the collection of Donna Moughty, IrishFamilyRoots.com
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This is the only photo in the album that had any identification. On the back it simply said "Reoch." The photo was taken by Pettigrew & Amos in Leith. The back has an image of a Gold Medal awarded 1897 so I think the picture was taken after than time. One viewer has identified the picture as Mary Hay Reoch.
This photograph was taken by T J. Bonne & Co. 105 South Bridge St. Edinburgh. A google search shows that the photo studio was at this address from about 1884, but under the name of T.J. Bonne & Company from about 1895 when his wife took over the business after his death in 1895
Children
Tracey - Boston Photographer
Miss Miller - Ballyshannon Photgrapher. This is a guess that the picture is of Minnie.
Women
No location or photographer listed
Allison & Allison - Dundalk, Photographer
Valery - Photographer, Beckenham, Kent, England Beckenham is near Croydon where Emma's husband, George Eglinton was a Police Constable.
Ritz Portraits, Boston
Tracey - Boston Photographer
Men
Galbraith - Dundalk Photographer
Allisons' Photographer
Picture by Miss E. Miller, The Mall Studio, Ballyshannon
T. Kilgannon - Sligo Photographer
Gilbraith - Dundalk Photographer
Chipman, Bridgeport, Connecticut Photographer
Groups
Photograph taken by Allison & Allison, Dundalk. They were in business under this name beginning in 1896. Rachel Mackey Sprague and James Sprague. Children from left, George Edric (1896), Emma Florence (1894 and Rachel Hewston known as Minnie (1892).
Photograph was taken by H. Allison & Co., Armagh, Newry, Dundalk. I think this is possible their wedding picture, married 26 Apr 1903 in Belfast.
Photograph taken by Allisons', Belfast, Armagh & Dundalk. My best guess is that this is a picture of Minnie and her grandmother, Rachel Mackey before she traveled to the US in 1909.
G.F. Crowder, Photographer, Enniskillen and Bundoran.
Miss Miller - Ballyshannon photographer
Wm Miller - Ballyshannon Photographer