The Raes

a long long time ago...
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.