Addresses:  not on case

Date:   1850s?

Comment 1

Sheldon Cunningham who supplied this photo wrote:

"My guess is that this may be the wife and child of J G Tunny, presumably the first of his three wives, Margaret (nee Smith)."

Sheldon Cunningham, Plano, Texas, USA:  February 2007

Comment 2

Julian Bukits wrote:

"The woman in this photo may well be the same as in the photo above.

If it is one of Tunny's wives, I suggest Elizabeth Hancock, with son Leonard Tunny."

Julian Bukits, Edinburgh:  February 2007

Comment 3

Julian Bukits wrote:

"I'm going to make an educated guess that this photo and B. above are both of JG Tunny's 1st wife, Margaret (Smith) Tunny, aged 26 (b. 1822), probably taken not long after the birth of their first child, Cornelius, in 1848.

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This would explain why there is just the one child in this photo.

Both photos are obviously of the same young lady; note the ringlets in her hair and the shape of her face.  I would also go as far as to say that there is a similarity in her eyes and face to the eyes and faces of the three boys in this Tunny Family photo, who would be her sons.

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Julian Bukits, Southside, Edinburgh:   November 16, 2010

Comment 4:

"This photo and the one below are both Ambrotypes, a process that was not invented until 1851,

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so these photos must have been taken a little later than Julien suggests.

Tunny was keen to experiment with new processes, so he would no doubt have been an early user of the Ambrotype process.

Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh:  November 19, 2010