John B RUSSELL:
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Born 1851, Dumbarton (bapt by Rev Cody)
After living in Dumbarton and Aberdeen, John had his photographers business in Thurso, Grantown and Kirkwall in Orkney. (reprimanded by judge for throwing his wife out on the street in Granton. Family tale that she drank a lot?)
According to family knowledge he married and there were two girls who departed with him to America, leaving his wife in Kirkwall. Reasons obscure> He wrote letters from America from 1908 onwards. Photographers firm Russell & Co, 311 Fulton St, Cor, Johnson, Brooklyn NY
a court case in Orkney involving John and a Miss Wylie. His business once called Russell and Wylie
John Russell, Photographer
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