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Louisiana: c. 1880s

This has to be either Covington, Louisiana or New Orleans. My mother told me these are probably my great-great grandfather, John Mayne, and his wife, my great-great grandmother, Jessie Allan. They lived in both New Orleans and Covington. There is no writing on the back.
He went to Trinity College in Dublin and was going to be a priest but decided not to and moved to New Orleans, where he met Scottish Presbtyrian lass, Jessie Allan.
Jessie and her sister Johanna had come over from Scotland as very young women looking for their older brother after their parents died, or so the story goes. They never found their brother. Jessie met and married John. Johanna went back to Scotland. The kids were raised Catholic but Jessie remained Presbtyrian until on her deathbead, when she converted because she "wanted to be where her family was." View full size.

This has to be either Covington, Louisiana or New Orleans. My mother told me these are probably my great-great grandfather, John Mayne, and his wife, my great-great grandmother, Jessie Allan. They lived in both New Orleans and Covington. There is no writing on the back.

He went to Trinity College in Dublin and was going to be a priest but decided not to and moved to New Orleans, where he met Scottish Presbtyrian lass, Jessie Allan.

Jessie and her sister Johanna had come over from Scotland as very young women looking for their older brother after their parents died, or so the story goes. They never found their brother. Jessie met and married John. Johanna went back to Scotland. The kids were raised Catholic but Jessie remained Presbtyrian until on her deathbead, when she converted because she "wanted to be where her family was." View full size.

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