In mid October 2020, Jane shared the following 2 photographs which contain pictures of Joseph Leigh Hunter Jane, her father Joseph and Ian have never been able to place where these photographs were taken.
Jane’s father Joseph inherited a number of photographs from his late parents, the photographs were only found after the passing of his Jane and Ian’s grandmother in 2006. Jane’s father, Joseph, could not place who or where the photographs were from or of whom. Below is one of a young Read more
Many thanks to Jane and her father Joseph for sharing this photo of Thomas Hunter and Jessie Forrest McCallum on their wedding day on 5th August 1932, which took place in Bathgate, Scotland
Jane and her father Joseph shared some more mysterious photographs, Joseph found these when after his mother Jessie passed away, as with the other photographs, at this point we had no idea who the ladies were or where these were taken. Now some closeups of these photographs Why would Thomas Read more
As part of trying to solve the family mystery, Jane and Ian had a dabble with facial recognition software that can be found at familysearch.org At this point Jane and Ian now have an idea about who Joseph Leigh Hunter might have really been, just now about how to prove Read more
Thanks again to Jane and her father Joseph for sharing this photograph. The photo is of Jane’s and Ian’s fathers, when they were wee laddies.
Proof that Matthew Lee / Joseph Leigh Hunter was in Nelsonville, Ohio, this also supports the evidence that he applied for naturalization. It is interesting that Jane and Ian’s paternal grandfather kept this photograph and others ‘secret’, Jane’s father, Joseph inherited the photographs when his mother Jessie passed away.
The photograph below is of Hannah Lee born on 20 July, 1870 Stanhope, Durham. She was the daughter of Thomas Lee b.1844 & Jane Ann Featherston. Hannah is a 2nd cousin, 3x removed to Jane and Ian. She married John George Nattrass (1875 – 1947) on 01 September, 1895 – Read more
Jane shared another photograph, this time it Jessie Forrest McCallum’s parents seated. We think the photograph also contains Jessie’s sister, Isabella Hepburn McCallum and Isabella’s husband. Jessie Hunter, as she became, was Jane and Ian’s paternal grandmother.