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The Raes of Duns, North Britain - which was polite talk over 100 years ago for Scotland.
My children's great-great-granduncle was Rae Penny, brother in-law to the kickin' Evelyn Penny of Owen Sound. [Rae, jazzman, is shown my left (your right) after committing duckacide with his bro.]
Rae was named after these folk - his grandparents (I think), his mother's folk - no, they are his father's mother's folk - his father was William Penny, the immigrant in this line, whose father married a Miss Rae, their daughter. The photo must be 1890 and they are elderly so perhaps born in the 1810's or 1820's. It is quite the thing to have an image of your child's great-great-great-great-grandparents - seven generations, each generation in the line in at least one photograph.
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Alan - November 26, 2003 1:32 pm
Thinking about this picture, we each have 64 great-great-great-great grandparents. I wonder how many of mine I could identify by name? One? Including them and me, there are 127 individuals involved in the last seven generations of McLeod culminating in me. Off the top of the head, my side gets fuzzy after the great-grandparents, who were young adults at 1900, born 1870s and '80s. I would expect that is actually pretty good.