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Who was
Frederick Davidson?
What is known
about Frederick Davidson? Was he related to any of the other
Edinburgh photographers named Davidson?
I have not found
any photographic business under the name of Frederick Davidson in the
old Edinburgh trade directories, but there was an Edinburgh photographer
by this name who emigrated to the USA in 1896.
Before
emigrating, he may well have been employed by one of the Edinburgh
photographic studios of the 1890s. |
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Immigration Ship
SS Hibernian
Frederick
Davidson occupied one of the 34 cabins on the immigrant ship SS Hibernian,
which sailed from Glasgow, Galway and Derry to Port Boston on 3 June
1986. His journey was from Glasgow to Cambridgeport, USA.
He was described
as a photographer, age 28, from Edinburgh, nationality 'Scotch'.
There were also
222 passengers on the ship, mainly labourers and domestics, travelling in
steerage class, and 19 returning cattlemen. Frederick Davidson was
the only photographer.
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