Hunter -- Watson Ancestral Photo File: Gillespie, Hunter and Prasher photos

Gillespie/Carruthers photos contributed by Cathy Steinbrunner:

John Carruthers, Sr. (b. bef. 1816)

John Carruthers (bef. 1816)

Sarah Gillespie Carruthers ( )

Hunter Family Photos.

Up the River Clyde from Greenock looking to Glasgow.

The Montcalm which took Etta Hunter (1906) from Greenock, Scotland to Canada. She then took the train to Salt Lake City, Utah to join her sister Jenny and family.

Etta Hunter Watson (1906) and Jenny Hunter Gray (1898).
Jenny and Donald's 50th Wedding Anniversary, Jan 1975.

The Saturnia on which James Watson (1906) sailed from Glasgow, Scotland to Quebec, Canada on June 6, 1924.

Watson Family Photos:

Thatched cottage, former Prasher family home in Ballynagarrick, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
(ca. 1916 when James Watson visited with his father.)

Ian Presho with Etta Hunter Watson.
The Prasher family home in Ballynagarrick shown previously. Shingled in this later view, 1972.

From this end of the cottage can be seen the grove of trees where the family went to get their water. There is an old town pump at the town crossroads. The cemetery had Prasha names.

(Note: The descriptions of the following photos are taken from the backs of the photos. The relationships of uncle, etc. are those of James Watson, 1906.)

Charles Prasha/Presho/Prasher (1837)

Four generations, left to right:Grandfather Charles Prasher (1837), Uncle Richard Prasher (1862), cousin Charles Prasher (1884) and daughter, Annie (1907).

Uncle Richard Prasha (1862), Aunt Charlotte Murray (1863), his wife; cousins Charles (1888) and Robbie (1890)

Four generations.
Charles Prasher (1837), Lizzie Harvey?, Elizabeth, aka Eliza, Prasha Stewart (1856), Margaret, aka Maggie, Stewart Harvey.

Aunt Elizabeth, aka Eliza, Prasher Stewart (1856), the eldest pictured.

The others are not identified.

Uncle Charles Prasher (1858), his wife Aunt Margaret Prasha Prasher (1861), (Charles and Margaret's parents were 2nd cousins) and family.
George (1885), Charles (1883) , Margaret aka Maggie, the youngest (1899), David (1897), Mary (1893) and Robert (1895).

The surname Prasha has variants--Presho, Prasha, Prasher, Preshaw, Presha,

Charles Prasher Family
George (1885), Charles (1883), Robert (1895), David (1897)
Charles (1858), Mary (1893), Margaret (1861)

Robert Prasha (1867), son of Charles and Agnes Prasha. Died in 1920 after military service in the Far East. His regiment, the 91st and 92nd were in Kandy and Columbo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1885 to 1888 where this photo was taken.