Do I need new Glasses?

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:42 am

Heather,

I’ve had that problem with some of the TIF images opening in Quicktime.

If you go to Start/Settings/Control Panel and click on Quicktime that will bring up the preferences. Select the Browser tab and click on MIME settings, open Images and untick TIFF.

That should get you back to normal.
Alan

Post by **emanday** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:21 am

Currie wrote:If that was the case Lister/Lester would be a brother in law of James or even a half brother from a different father and not related otherwise to Christina. Any chance that James mother married twice? What was her maiden name?

I don't about a second marriage. Margaret Marshall was about 20 when she married William Badenoch in 1805 and about 41 when her last (known) child was born.

However, anything is possible - so a bit more searching to do

Post by **emanday** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:24 pm

Well, if I didn't need new glasses before I do now! I'm going cross-eyed!

I hope this makes sense....

Charles Marshall and Janet Henderson had 5 children.
Two of the daughters are Margaret c1785 and Catherine c1798

Margaret married William Badenoch
Catherine first married Alexander Winchester, then Alexander LESLIE.

All this from finding an Isabella Badenoch (who turned out to be James and Margaret's daughter), named as Grandaughter of Catherine Leslie, Alexander's mother, in 1871.

So, I deduce from all this that the Alexander LESLIE who I now believe signed both DC's was Catherine's 2nd husband.

On her DC Christina Winchester is a daughter of Catherine's first marriage to Alexander Winchester.

When I did an ancestral chart for any children that James and Christina might have had...

James's mother Margaret Marshall is sister to Christina's mother, Catherine Marshall

They were direct cousins which, the Badenochs being a fairly well-to-do shipbuilding and ship owning family, happened more than once with them.

I need a cuppa

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:49 pm

Mary,

I’m afraid I'm not very good at this sort of thing.

Did you mean that the person who signed the DC was the Alexander, the son of Alexander Leslie and Catherine Marshall. In that case he would have been James Badenoch’s cousin and also half brother-in-law and not his brother. He would have been Christinas half brother and not just a neighbour.

If the Alexander Leslie who signed the DC was Catherines husband (was he still alive as he might have been getting on a bit in years) he would have been James Badenochs uncle by marriage and Christinas step-father. I think.

The first scenario is more accurate as to “brother” and is confused enough to maybe result in “neighbour”.

Don’t be surprised if this doesn’t make sense as I might have lost the plot half way through.

Now I need a cuppa.
Alan

Post by **emanday** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:28 pm

Currie wrote:Did you mean that the person who signed the DC was the Alexander, the son of Alexander Leslie and Catherine Marshall.

Haven't found any children to them yet, but I believe it was Alexander, Catherine's 2nd husband who'd probably be in his late 70's /early 80's
Added Later: Wheehee! If the 1841 census is to be believed, they did have two sons! Alexander in c1835 and James in c1837, and all three of Catherine's children by her first marriage are there as well!

In that case he would have been James Badenoch’s cousin and also half brother-in-law and not his brother.

If it was the son rather than Alexander the elder, then that would be true.

He would have been Christinas half brother and not just a neighbour.

True again.

If the Alexander Leslie who signed the DC was Catherines husband (was he still alive as he might have been getting on a bit in years) he would have been James Badenochs uncle by marriage and Christinas step-father. I think.

Yup!

The first scenario is more accurate as to “brother” and is confused enough to maybe result in “neighbour”.

Well, I've had Nieces-in-law sign as Niece, and brothers-in-law signing as Brother before now, so that I can understand. Maybe by the time he signed as "Neighbour" he was just a wee bit fuddled?

Now I need something a wee bit stronger than a cuppa, but it's too early yet