Some old family photographs.

Simon Lord Lovat, shortly before being beheaded in the Tower of London after the Scottish Rebellion, 1747. An unflattering portrait commissioned by the British Parliament. In no way was he as devious and evil as English propaganda made out. Family history makes us descended from him, but unlikely; though an illegitimate child a possibility.

Clan Gathering May 1904
My grandmother and aunt were invited to stay at the castle by Lord Lovat. They are the two in the extravagant furs and ridiculous hats in the centre. If anyone can put names to some of the others I would be interested to hear from them.

My father's great uncle, gentleman-at arms to Queen Victoria, and his uncle Ernest.

My great great grandmother .  My great great grandfather, 1790-1873.

Great-aunts Lilian and Ethel Fraser, about1900

My fathers stepfather and his brother.

My grandmother in 1895, Maude Gertrude Josephine Lovat Fraser, and with her second husband Albert Moloney.

My father and his brother

My Father as a child, his birthplace in Ireland,  in uniform 1933. And just commissioned in 2nd Bat. Royal Scots Fusiliers, Sept. 1927

Royal Scots Fusiliers at lunch, India, 29thDec 1927. Appears to be home from home with beer and tomato ketchup.

Maurice Coleman ,breakfast on the North West Frontier.

His grandfather lost the family fortune on the horses. Ironically his home in Merrion Sq. Dublin is now the headquarters of the Irish Horse Racing Board. His mother dumped him in a convent when she left with his stepfather for the goldmines of the Americas.
Just a few of the other notable characters: Father Theobald Mathew the founder of the Temperance Movement in Ireland, General Patrick Gordon of Moscow, the Rev. James Robertson a spy for Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars. I have manuscript books on these.

Her father came from The Low Countries. Mainly in meat trading, can trace back to sheep drovers at the time of the Armada. She sailed to India in 1942 to marry my father before he was sent up to the Burma front (with nothing but a ceremonial sword until he purloined a Smith & Wesson from a deserted American armoury.)

Great great uncle Ted Kelly. The Black Sheep, took up with an actress, became an alcoholic down and out, he was sent to Australia by the family, where he ended up in the care of nuns, and died.

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