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Portrait of family group including “Archie, Frank & Maggie” Dickson? Dated 10 January 1882, from mystery album
Image by whatsthatpicture
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At the risk of continuing a slightly morbid theme (see previous post about Janet Gray) the first mystery in this photograph is what happened to baby Maggie Dickson. There are plenty of named photographs of what I presume must be her brothers in this mystery album, but this is the only one of her. Then again, it appears to be the only picture of her parents too. She is not present in the 1891 or 1901 census reports.
And the second mystery is to ask where father Arthur Dickson was in 1891, with his family back in Scotland – still in Burmah? And what was he doing? In the 1901 Scottish census his profession is transcribed somewhat mysteriously as a Toser Merchant!
