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 Christina and Donald McLEAN from Scotland 1837



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0244 - Edward Abbott & Louise Alberta, nee Sturgeon

This photo, from page 337 of the BRB, was labelled "Joe & Frances (nee McLean) Phillips" - but this is probably not correct.
MISTAKEN NAME?: Joe Phillips married Frances Agnes Sturgeon, not Frances McLean. There is a Frances McLean in the family tree (actually Elizabeth Frances McLean, known as Lizzie) and she happens to have been born in the same year and same place as Frances Agnes Sturgeon (actually Lizzie McLean was born on 3rd Sept 1876 in Angus Plains, and Frances Sturgeon was born on 1st May 1876 in Strathalbyn). However Lizzie McLean never married. The compiler of the BRB, Alf McLean was the nephew of Lizzie and he knew her personally so he would not have had her in mind for being married to Joe Phillips. To leave no doubt, Alf placed the photo on the same page as Frances Sturgeon's parents. Perhaps that is where the typo occurred because her mother was a McLean.
MISTAKEN IMAGE?: This photo does not look much like the other photos of Joseph Phillips. "He had a moustache all his life - except for a brief time in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields when he had a beard" (Ian Barnes email on 4th Jan 2021).
SOLUTION?: Maybe the BRB had incorrectly transposed two photos of two sisters - Louise Alberta (Berta) Sturgeon and Frances Agnes Sturgeon. The photo on page 338 was labelled as Ted Abbott & Bertha Sturgeon whereas it should have been Joe Phillips & Frances Sturgeon - and vice versa for the photo on page 337.
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Owner/SourceBRB p337
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Linked toEdward James (Ted) ABBOTT; Joseph PHILLIPS; Frances Agnes STURGEON; Louisa Alberta STURGEON

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