A Piece of Family History
I do get asked quite a lot why, when my name is Jeff Carter, is my company called MacLean Communications / MacLean Photographic? I have to explain that my full name is Jeffrey Stuart MacLean Carter and the name comes from my Great Grandmother, Jane, whose maiden name was MacLean and she married my Great Grandfather, Samuel Carter, who came from from Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway. My Great Grandmother grew up in Greenock which is a little further along the Clyde river from Glasgow. Her Father ran a coach firm that ran a service from Largs and Inverkip to Greenock and they also did coach tours around the region. This is the a postcard I was given by my Grandfather which shows his Grandfather (my Great, Great Grandfather) Thomas MacLean with his horse and coach. He is the gentleman wearing the bowler hat. Apparently my Great, Great Grandmother, Marion (her maiden name was McNeil), is also in the picture sitting behind the horses and I alway...