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Home > Photo Gallery > Portraits of Charles McHardy and Janet Bowman, and Family |
Charles McHardy and Janet Bowman,
and Family |
The following photographs and research notes are passed on by Alistair Duncan of Canada.
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Margaret McHardy ... was my great grandmother. She married Alexander Brown and lived at Coul of Newe. Have not tracked Alexander Brown down quite yet, believe he may have been born in Keig. He is recorded on various documents as a shepherd or flockmaster. Annotation or reverse J. Ashley Retford
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Elizabeth McHardy, cousin of Charles McHardy. Annotated G & W Morgan,
5 Market St, Aberdeen.
[Anyone with information on exactly
how she is related, please let me
know Sandra] |
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I asked if anyone could identify these two, simply known as Bowman and Brown to Alistair. Les McLaren responded via email as given below. Please note that Les suspects that the genealogies in The Highlanders of Scotland are not one-hundred percent reliable, so, as always, be cautious with the information. Sandra |
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On the left is James Bowman, born at the Killoch, Invercauld, March 12th 1814, one of three sons and nine daughters of John Bowman (died 1866, aged 99) and his wife Margaret MacHardy (died 1839, aged 58). She was one of five sons and four daughters of Allaster MacHardy, tenant of Auchallater, Braemar, and his wife, Jean MacGregor. William Bowman was the grandfather...of James...tenant of the farm of Auchtaven (often spelled Auchtavan), and his wife was Janet Cattanach.
On the right is William Brown, brother of the famous John Brown, Queen Victoria's friend. These details (I can't vouch for their accuracy) came from a book of reproductions of a series of pictures painted by Kenneth MacLeay for Queen Victoria. Margaret's brother William features in another painting, and her nephew Charles MacHardy in another. The book is a large format paperback, The Highlanders of Scotland, published in 1986 by the Haggerston Press. I believe there might be a more recent edition. The pictures are even better in colour!
Les McLaren |
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