I purchased two photograph albums and after researching the genealogy of the Notman family and the Scottish and Canadian photography studios in the albums found it may help other researchers. Photographers: Moffatt, Edinburgh, Scotland, Scottishman William Notman, Montreal and brother James Notman, Boston.Ron Field, Denis Gadbois, Doug York, Beverly Wilgus
Whereas a photograph can relay a message equivalent to, as the old idiom conveys, "a thousand words", a photograph album can supply an even more complete story. Edinburgh, Scotland studios are the primary focus of this album. The Family and friends of John Notman and Barbara Ogilivy Notman and their favorite portraits from Edinburgh, Scotland and St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman
Scottish Photographers: Edinburgh and Leith: #MOFFAT, John; #MONRO, W. K. (William); #PRINGLE, T.; #MACKINTOSH and Co.; #BARRY, W.; #LAWRIE, A., Alexander (1835-1888); NIMMO, P., (Peter); NIMMO and Sons; STEELE, A. W.; GILCHRIST, J. ; KEAN, ; CAMERON BROTHERS;
London Photographer: #MacDonald, H. W., Eton, Great Britain
Canadian Photographers: #CRAIG, William, St. Catherines, Canada; #POOLE, Edwin;
GENEALOGY: #NOTMAN, #OGILVIE,
Family Album
The Album with tissue paper spacers and floral enhanced pages. "William Weddel's Bible Warehouse. “EDINBURGH BIBLE WAREHOUSE UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY -•- W. WEDDELL 48 SOUTH BRIDGE •”. William Weddell was a stationer who operated from various Edinburgh locations during his career. 48 South Bridge. Edinburgh, 1888-1892 Source: http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/pd/pd_weddell.htm"
John Notman (1838-1893), Paisley, Scotland and died in St. Catherines, Canada married Barabara Ann Ogilvie (1844- ), Thorold, Ontario, Canada married c. 1865
His occupation is listed as a miller and millwright, living at 78 Queen Street, St. Catherines, Ontario Canada.
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Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
(Possibly John Notman).
Photographer: John Moffat, Edinburgh, Scotland
Date: ca. 1886-1890
John Moffat
Studios: 1853 to 1962
Cartes de visite showing medals awarded to him
John Moffat added illustrations of the medals he had won to the backs of his cartes de visite. This can be helpful in dating his cartes de visite. Fashions can also be helpful in dating photos. Note that the later cards often have rounded corners.
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Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Possibly Mr. And Mrs. NOTMAN or Mr. Mrs. OGILVIE, parents.
Photographer: T. . Pringle, the Brandon Studio Canonmills, Edinburgh
See also Ross and Pringle
"Ross & Pringle was a Scottish photography partnership between James Ross and Thomas Pringle, operating in Edinburgh from the late 1860s to the 1880s, after James Ross's initial partnership with John Thomson ended. The firm was known for studio portraits and was located at 114 George St. Edinburgh. Brandon Studio historically, the Brandon Studio Photography Studio run by RS&W Forrest from 1890 to 1905, located at Brandon Terrace, just about the end of the era of cabinet prints
RS&W Forrest was a partnership between Robert Smith Forrest and William Forrest, until 1905 when the two photographers began to work from separate studios."
"T. Pringle, the Brandon Studio Canonmills, Edinburgh
See also Ross and Pringle
"Ross & Pringle was a Scottish photography partnership between James Ross and Thomas Pringle, operating in Edinburgh from the late 1860s to the 1880s, after James Ross's initial partnership with John Thomson ended. The firm was known for studio portraits and was located at 114 George St. Edinburgh. Brandon Studio historically, the Brandon Studio Photography Studio run by RS&W Forrest from 1890 to 1905, located at Brandon Terrace, just about the end of the era of cabinet prints
RS&W Forrest was a partnership between Robert Smith Forrest and William Forrest, until 1905 when the two photographers began to work from separate studios."
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album.
Photographer: Poole, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
Date:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: Poole, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
Date:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: Unknown. (Possibly James Ogilvy, father)
Date:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographers: A. LAWRIE, Alexander (1835-1889) photographer, Scotland; NIMMO, P.; NIMMO and Sons;
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographers: LAWRIE, A.; NIMMO, P., 44 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland; NIMMO and Sons;
Peter Nimmo was a renowned photographer with studios on Edinburgh’s South Bridge.
"Unlike many photographers of the era, many of Nimmo’s photographs remain in contemporary museum collections, including the Nation Galleries of Scotland, where a salted paper print from 1843-1847 can be found on their online archives.
According to Edinburgh Photography historians, Nimmo worked as a commercial photographer at 44 South Bridge, Edinburgh (now a bubble tea café) and formed a company with his son in 1869, which operated until 1896. He also contributed 4 photographs to the 1876 EPS Open Photography Exhibition."
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographers: MUNRO, ; A. LAWRIE, Alexander (1835-1889) photographer, Scotland
Date:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographers: #MONRO, W. K. (William);
Date:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album,
Photographer: LAWRIE, A., Alexander (1835-1888)
Date:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: Unknown
Date:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographers: #MONRO, W. K. (William); LAWRIE, A., Alexander (1835-1888)
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Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: H. W. Mac Donald, 57 High Street, Eton. 9 Claro Terrace, Earl's Court SW
"H. W. Macdonald was a photographer located at 57 High Street in Eton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his postcard images and photographic prints of Eton and Eton College.While other prominent photographers with the surname Macdonald have also worked in Eton (notably Ian Macdonald), the specific initials H. W. and the address at 57 High Street distinguish this earlier "
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographers: STEELE, A. W.; POOLE, E.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Portraits: (1) Jenny Notman, (2) Marjory Notman, (3) Arch and Barbara, (4) Jenny and Ed.
PHOTOGRAPHERS: STEELE, A. W. , Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland; GILCHRIST, J. , 105 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland; CRAIG, William, St. Catherines, Canada;
POOLE, E. , St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album, detail of child's purse
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photograhers: STEELE, A. W. , Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland; GILCHRIST, J. , 105 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland; CRAIG, William, St. Catherines, Canada; POOLE, E. , St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album; unknown. Ogilvy????
Photographer: unknown. Note: J. Russell made postcards of clergy. Postcard size, no photographer mark
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: Beach
Beach
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: Beach
Portrait: Barbara Notman, Grace Notman, Jenel/Jenny/Jenet Notman.
78 Queen Street, St. Catherine, Ontario Canada
December 1896.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: Edwin Poole (1845-1931) St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
Portrait: Unknown
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer:
Photographer: Edwin Poole (1845-1931) St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada
Date:
"Poole Photography refers to the work of Edwin Poole, a prolific photograper. who operated in the city from the 1870's to around 1922, known for his portrait work and extensive documentation of the city's landscapes and buildings. While Edwin Poole's business continued under a successor, Mr. Friesman, and some of his glass plate negatives were acquired by the St. Catharines Public Library in 1922. Edwin Poole (1845-1931) was a photographer who worked in St. Catharines for much of his career. He is well-known for his portrait work, but he photographed much of the landscape and many buildings in St. Catharines as well. The Russell House Hotel was located at the corner of James St. and St. Paul St. It was built in 1843 for Samuel Stinson. The building had many owners over the years including James Cairn and John Quinn. It remained a popular hotel into the 1920s and 1930s, but gradually declined throughout the rest of the century. It was demolished in 1996. A.J. Gilmore Garage was located on St. Paul Street in St. Catharines. In the 1920s Garden City Motors took over, followed by Malcolm Motor Sales and W.E. McDermott’s garage (1934-1936). It was subsequently used by the Canada Bread Company, Garden City Motors again, Leon’s Furniture in the 1960s and 1970s, and by 2009 Wally Wemnants carpetmarket
Portrait: Unknown
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: James Mackintosh (1807-1876), Mackintosh & Co. was a Scottish photography firm from Kelso, active in the mid-to-late 19th century, known for portraiture and landscape work, and for being photographers to the Prince and Princess of Wales after the 1868 royal visit to Floors Castle. The firm, possibly associated with J. Mackintosh, documented this significant event and was later authorized to advertise their royal patronage."
"Mackintosh & Co. was a photography studio in Kelso, Scotland, known for its historical portraits, including those of royalty. It was likely operated by James Mackintosh, a carver and gilder who also did photography, and later possibly by his daughters, who worked as photographers in Kelso. The studio, which operated in the 19th century, was granted the title of "landscape and portrait photographers to their R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales" after photographing a visit to Floors Castle.
Studio: Mackintosh & Co. was a photography studio based in Kelso, Scotland.
Historical context: The studio was active in the 19th century and took photographs of notable figures, including the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe.
Royal connection: Following a visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Floors Castle, the studio was allowed to advertise itself as being "landscape and portrait photographers to their R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales".
Personnel: It is believed the studio was founded or operated by James Mackintosh (1807-1876), who was primarily a carver and gilder but also a photographer. His daughters, Mary and Margaret, were also listed as photographers in Kelso during the 1881 census.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album (Possibly John Notman).
Photographer: Moffatt
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
(Possibly John Notman)
Photographer: Moffatt,
Image search. (Similar):
The image is a portrait of Dr. Theodore Marshall, identified as "The Right Reverend The Moderator".
This title suggests Dr. Marshall held a significant position within a religious body, likely a Presbyterian church, as "Moderator" is a common term for the presiding officer of a General Assembly or Synod in such denominations.
The photograph was taken by Moffat, Edin., indicating a photographer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The style of dress, including the academic gown and cap, is consistent with formal clerical or academic attire from the late 19th or early 20th century.
The overall presentation suggests a formal portrait taken to commemorate his position or achievements. https://www.lifeandwork.org/features/looking-back-fifty-general-assemblies
"John R Russell published a series of postcards of clergymen, many of the photos having been taken by
Portraits: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographers: TAYLOR; CAMERON BROTHERS ; MCKEAN, J.
Portraits: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographers: TAYLOR, A. and C.; CAMERON BROTHERS ; MCKEAN, J.; NIMMO,
Portraits: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album. Ca. after 1864.
Photographer: Lawrie and Mitchell, 25 North Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Alexander Lawrie and "Grierson Mitchell was a partner in the above partnerships. (In fact, this appears to be the same photographer as George G Mitchell who is listed in the 1871 census and in Slater's Directory for 1889. "
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: W. Barry, 8 Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album.
Photographers:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album.
Photographers: BOWN, Henry, 1841 – 1921,
"Henry Bown 1841 – 1921, age 79.
In the 1871 census Henry described himself as a picture frame maker living at 52 Parker’s Row, Dockhead, Bermondsey. He is known to have produced photographic portraits with this address printed on his carte de visite mounts. Henry’s career as a photographer, therefore, began after 1871 but prior to 1876 when he opened a different studio at 14 Jamaica Road, Bermondsey.
1886 By 1886 Henry had opened an additional studio at 13 Rockingham Street, Newington Causeway, Southwark,
1888 By 1888 Henry had closed the Rockingham Street studio and opened one at 43 New Kent Road Southwark.
Also in 1888, a studio at 31 Spa Road, Bermondsey was purchased from Charles John Cooper but by 1890 Henry had moved down the road to No. 63 where the studio remained until about 1894."
"Henry Bown, a Victorian and Edwardian-era photographer who operated multiple studios in South London from approximately 1877 to 1908. He is known for his photographic services, which included enlargements and hand-painting, and for the distinct studio portraits, often identified by cabinet cards, his studio produced.
Time period: Henry Bown was active during the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras.
Business locations: He had several studios across South London, including locations on Jamaica Rd., New Kent Rd., Clapham Rd., Stockwell Park Rd., and Eastdown Park.
Services: His business offered a range of services, including enlargements "up to life size" and hand-painting portraits in oil or watercolor."
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: PURSEY, T.
Thomas Pursey was Artist & Portrait Painter.
He becamePhotographer and Artist.He used two addresses, both referring to the same premises on the corner of South Charlotte Street and Princes Street. The addresses were: 2 South Charlotte Street and 135 Princes Street. at 37 Queensferry Street. Awarded medal in the Edinburgh Industrial Exhibition, 1901.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: MUNRO, Edinburgh.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer:
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: KEAN, J. M. 3 Ferry Road, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: KEAN, J. M. 3 Ferry Road, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: CAMERON BROTHERS, The Old Zoological Gardens, Leith and Edinburgh, Scotland.
Portrait: From the John Notman and Barbara Olgivie Notman Family Album
Photographer: CAMERON BROTHERS, The Old Zoological Gardens, Leith and Edinburgh, Scotland.
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GENEALOGY OF THE JOHN NOTMAN FAMILY
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John Notman (1838-1893) Barbara Ogilvie (1844- ), Thorold, Ontario, Canada
Victoria Lawn Cemetery
78 Queen Street
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
1. William Alexander NOTMAN (1862- ) m. 1885 Catherine Ann MAGEE
2. James Ogilvie NOTMAN (1865-1951) m. Florence Amelia SIEFFERT
3. John Charles NOTMAN (1866- ), 100 Queen Street m.Clara SEYMOUR
4. Robert Lorne NOTMAN (1869- 1924) M. 27 September 1893 Laura Maude PAY
5. Janet Elizabeth NOYMAN (1872- ) m. 1898, William WOOD
6. Edward Arthur NOTMAN (1875- )
7. Archibald Henry NOTMAN (1881- ), m. Kathleen Grace GREENWOOD
8. Barbara NOTMAN (1884- )
9. Grace Ann NOTMAN (1888-1975) m. 1910, John Ernest Parrington KINGSLAND (1883, Montreal, Canada-1963),
Barbara Ann Ogilvie Notman (23 Dec 1844 - 22 Nov 1923), who lived during the Victorian era. She was from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Her grave at Victoria Lawn Cemetery. Parents James Ogilvie, Hao (Possibly Bao or Beaux).
Robert L. Notman (1869-1924), 1915 son of John Notman and Barbara Ann Ogilvie Notman. "Passport photograph, 1915. In 1910 he is listed in the census as living at Bidwell Parkway in Buffalo, New York. He is list as a manufacturer of "dash company." When Robert Lorne Notman was born on 12 June 1869, in Ontario, Canada, his father, John Notman, was 31 and his mother, Barbara Ann Ogilvie, was 25. He married Laura Maude Pay on 27 September 1893, in St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States for about 5 years and Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1920. He died in 1924, at the age of 55, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194925513/robert_lorne-notman
Children
Arthur Lorne Notman
1896–1976
Robert Allen Notman
1898–1974
Donald Ogilvie Notman
1908–1999
Daughter of James
Marjory Amelia Notman was born on 22 November 1896, in St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Ogilvie Notman, was 31 and her mother, Florence Amelia Sieffert, was 28. She lived in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States in 1910. She died in 1913, at the age of 17, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.
Grace Notman and John Ernest Kingsland child Florence Annie Kingsland Hume.
Florence Annie Hume, born 19 Aug 1920 in Hill Head, Argenteuil, Québec, Canada; died 1983 in Quebec, Canada; buried in Saint James Anglican Church Cemetery, Hudson Heights, Quebec, Canada. She married on 31 Mar 1942 in Lachute, Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada John Ernest Kingsland Jr., born 1911 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; died 1960 in Quebec, Canada; buried in Saint James Anglican Church Cemetery, Hudson Heights, Quebec, Canada, son of John Ernest Kingsland and Grace Notman.
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GENEALOGY OF THE ROBERT WILLIAM (1805-1849) NOTMAN FAMILY
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I. Robert William Notman (1805-1849) m. Janet Sloan (1805-1889), Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Portrait: Robert William Notman (1805-1849), {haberdashery, commission agent, woolen cloth business}. Source of portrait: McCord Stewart museum
Portrait: Robert William Notman (1805-1849), {haberdashery, commission agent, woolen cloth business}. Source of portrait: Find A grave
Is this Robert William Notman and Janet Sloan Notman
m. Janet Sloan (1805-1889). Janet was probably the daughter of John Sloan and Janet Allan.She married William Notman in 1823.In 1840 they moved from Paisley to Glasgow where William worked as a commission agent before establishing a wholesale woollen cloth business. After the company went bankrupt in the mid-1850s and he and his eldest son, William, were accused of fraud, the Notmans emigrated to Montreal, Canada East (Quebec), where William Jr. had established a photographic business.By 1861, William Sr. and his two younger sons were all employed in the thriving studio.
Janet died in 1889 and was buried at Mont Royal Cemetery, Montreal.
1857 OGILVY, LEWIS and Co.
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GENEALOGY OF THE NOTMAN FAMILY ~ SECOND GENERATION
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1. William NOTMAN (8 March 1826 – 25 November 1891) was a Scottish-Canadian photographer and businessman. The Notman House in Montreal was his home from 1876 until his death in 1891, and it has since been named after him. Notman was the first photographer in Canada to achieve international recognition. Frances Elizabet, William McFarland (1857- 1913), Jesse Sloan (1859-1942), Alice Richenda, Emily Mary, George Richard Woodwark (1868-1921), Charles Frederick (1870-1955).
2. Jesse NOTMAN, (1828- ) m. Mary Ellen Gatehouse
3. John Sloan NOTMAN (1830-1879)
4. Helen NOTMAN (1835- )
5. Robert NOTMAN (1837- )
6. John NOTMAN (1838-1893) m. Barbara Ann Olgivie
7. Margaret NOTMAN (1846-1873) m. David Howard Harrison (1843 - 1905)
8. James NOTMAN (1849-1932), Photographer in Boston m. Pyra Elizabeth Baldwin
William Notman Then and Now, Sarah Parsons
Mccord Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Hélène Samson, curator of the Notman Photographic Archives.
William Notman
Alice Merry Woodwark Notman
William MacFarland Notman, George Richard Woodwark (1868-1921), Charles Frederick Notman (1870-1955), William Notman (1826-1891).
William NOTMAN (8 March 1826 – 25 November 1891) Children
1. William MacFarland Notman
2. Charles Frederick Notman (
3.
" John Sloan Notman, born about 1830 in Paisley, Scotland, was the son of William Notman and Janet Sloan. He emigrated to Montreal, Canada East (Quebec) with his parents and siblings and in 1861 worked as a photographer in his brother William's photographic studio. In 1862 he married Mary Ellen Gatehouse at Saint-James Street Methodist Church in Montreal.
In 1866, he set up his own studio, J.S. Notman & Co., in Boston, with his brother-in-law partner, J.M. Gatehouse. His brother William was probably a silent partner. The studio was immediatley successful, but after two years, he returned to Montreal and continued working in William's studio. "
He died in the fall of 1879 when his carriage was hit by a train. Burial was at Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal
John Sloan NOTMAN (1830-1879) m. Mary Ellen Gatehouse (1840- )."
Mary Ellen Gatehouse, born in 1840, was the daughter of George Gatehouse and Mary Ann Morgan. She married photographer John Sloan Notman in 1862 at Saint-James Street Methodist Church in Montreal. He died in an accident in 1879.
In 1900 and 1910 Mary Ellen lived with her son Frederick and daughter Helen in Boston. She died of tonsilitis three years later and was buried at Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal.
Children: Frederick Notman c. 1865
7. Margaret Notman Harrison (abt. 1846 - 1873)
Margaret (Notman) Harrison (abt. 1846 - 1873)
David Howard Harrison (1843 - 1905)
8. James E Notman (1849 - 1932) m. Pyra Elizabeth (Baldwin) Notman (abt. 1850 - 1930).
Photographer, Boston, Mass
James E Notman (1849 - 1932) m. Pyra Elizabeth (Baldwin) Notman (abt. 1850 - 1930).
Father: Alanson Baldwin, born about 1819, worked as a pencil maker in New York State in 1850. He was married and had three children.In 1854 the Baldwins moved to Ottawa, where Alanson owned two sawmills, two steamers and numerous barges.
He died in 1895 in Ottawa.
James was born in Scotland in 1849. He is the son of William Notman and Janet Sloan and brother of Margaret Harrison; Jessie Notman; John Sloan Notman; Helen Notman; Robert Notman and 2 others including William Notman, founder of the nineteenth century photography business.Husband of Pyra E. Baldwin
James E Notman (1849 - 1932)
James E Notman (1849 - 1932)
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PHOTOGRAPHER, WILLIAM NOTMAN (1826-1891)
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From The Getty
Born 8 March 1826, died 25 November 1891. In the early 1850s, Notman learned photographic processes in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1856, he immigrated to Canada and opened a photographic studio later that year on Bleury Streetin Montréal, Québec. In 1868, Notman opened a branch studio in Ottawa, Ontario, run by William J. Topley. From 1872 to 1877, Notman was a partnerwith his brother James Notman in the St. John, New Brunswick branch studio. When the St. John studio burned down in 1877, James went on to manage the Boston branch studio with William as a partner briefly. Notman's sons, William McFarlane Notman and Charles Frederick Notman joined the business in 1872 and 1888 respectively. In 1868-72, he opened branch studios in Toronto, Ontario, Halifax, Nova Scotia and St. John, New Brunswick. In 1872 and after, Notman established the Notman Photographic Company with branches in Boston, Massachusetts, Newport, Rhode Island, and Albany and New York City, New York. In 1876, Notman became president of the Centennial Photographic Co., a joint-stock operation chartered by the state of Pennsylvania. The business had the exclusive rights to produce photographs of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. After Notman's death, the studio continued under the management of William McFarlane Notman, then CharlesFrederick Notman until 1936 when it was bought by the Associated ScreenNews. The studio continued operation as Wm. Notman & Son until 1993. The majority of the output of his Montreal studio from 1856 to 1993 is housed inthe McCord Museum of Canadian History, in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Wikipedia
William Notman (8 March 1826 – 25 November 1891) was a Scottish-Canadian photographer and businessman. The Notman House in Montreal was his home from 1876 until his death in 1891, and it has since been named after him. Notman was the first photographer in Canada to achieve international recognition.
Notman was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1826. He received a decent education, which included lessons in painting and drawing.He moved to Montreal in the summer of 1856.An amateur photographer, he quickly established a flourishing professional photography studio on Bleury Street, a location close to Montreal's central commercial district, where he attracted clients who were members of the political and business elite.
His first important commission was the documentation of the construction of the Victoria Bridge across the St. Lawrence River.The bridge opened with great fanfare in 1860, attended by the Prince of Wales and Notman's camera. The gift to the prince of a maple box containing Notman's photographs of the construction of the bridge and scenes of Canada East and Canada West so pleased Queen Victoria that, according to family tradition, she named him "Photographer to the Queen."
Notman's status and business grew over the next three decades. He established branches throughout Canada and the United States, including seasonal branches at Yale and Harvard universities to cater to the student trade.Notman was also an active member of the Montreal artistic community; he collaborated with other artists such as Alexander Henderson to sponsor and host art exhibitions in his studio. The studio also provided training for aspiring photographers and painters.
Notman was highly regarded by his colleagues for his innovative photography, and held patents for some of the techniques he developed to recreate winter within the studio walls. He could simulate the presence of ice and snow in the studio, replicate fire using magnesium flares, and create naturalistic photographs using an innovative composite technique.His professional renown and financial success may largely be attributed to his winter scenes. He won medals at exhibitions in Montreal, London, Paris, and Australia. Notman's celebrity was also bolstered by his portraits of famous subjects such as one of Sitting Bull (Sioux name Tatanka Iyotake) and Buffalo Bill (born William Frederick Cody)
Composite Photograph of Carnival, South End Exhibition Rink, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, February 1899. The carefully prepared composite photograph was a Notman specialty
Photography during the mid-19th century was not the simple process it later became. The typical tourist generally did not carry a camera and much of the Notman studio's images were taken with the tourist's needs in mind. Visitors would look through Notman's picture books and chose views, to buy individually mounted or perhaps made up into an album, and have a portrait taken as well. Street scenes in the burgeoning cities of Canada, the magnificence of modern transportation by rail and steam, expansive landscapes and the natural wonders, were all in demand either as 8" x 10" print, or in the popular stereographic form, and were duly recorded by the many staff photographers working for the Notman studio.
He was a regular contributor to the photographic journal Philadelphia Photographer and in partnership with its editor, Edward Wilson, formed the Centennial Photographic Company for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, held in honour of the 100th anniversary of the United States in 1876. He won the only gold medal to be awarded by the British judges and the portrait identification card required for entrance to the grounds was the ancestor of today's various photo-ID cards.
When William Notman died suddenly in November 1891 after a short bout of pneumonia, management of the studio Wm Notman & Son was left to his son William McFarlane Notman, an experienced photographer in his own right, who with his brothers, had accompanied the itinerant settlement known as "End of Track" for the Canadian Pacific Railway and documented the completion of the railway in Western Canada.
At Notman's death, his eldest son and partner, William McFarlane Notman, inherited the company. When William McFarlane Notman died of cancer in 1913, his younger brother Charles assumed responsibility. In 1935, Charles retired and sold the studio to the Associated Screen News,In 1957, the Notman Collection was purchased by McGill University. The 200,000 negatives, 43 Index Books, 200 Picture Books and assorted memorabilia were transferred to the McCord Museum of Canadian History.
Notman, William. Portrait of a Period: A Collection of Notman Photographs, 1856–1915. Edited by J. Russell Harper and Stanley Triggs, with an introduction by Edgar Andrew Collard. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1967.
Triggs, Stanley G. William Notman: The Stamp of a Studio. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario; Coach House Press, 1985. ISBN0-919777-22-8
Triggs, Stanley G., Conrad Graham, Brian Young and Gilles Lauzon. Victoria Bridge: The Vital Link, exhibition catalog. Montreal: McCord Museum of Canadian History, 1992. ISBN1-895615-01-1
Triggs, Stanley G. The Composite Photographs of William Notman, exhibition catalogue. Montreal: McCord Museum of Canadian History; 1994. ISBN1-895615-08-9
Bartlett F. Kenney: Boston photographer who photographed Whitman in 1881. Kenney, a native of Boston, was proprietor of the James Notman (1849–1932), Boston, studio, located on Boylston Street, where he became known for his outstanding photographic portraits. His elaborate studio had reception parlors and dressing rooms adjoining the state-of-the-art operating gallery. Kenney took over Notman’s Cambridge studio upon Notman’s retirement in 1894
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THE OGILVIES IN CANADA AND SCOTLAND
Ogilvie, Montreal
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OGILVY, JOHN, merchant and farmer; b. c. 1769, possibly in or near Leith, Scotland, son of Jane Ogilvy, née Dunlop; d. unmarried 28 Sept. 1819 in Amherstburg, Upper Canada.
John Ogilvy immigrated to Canada about 1790, settling at Montreal, where he became involved in the fur trade. In 1792 he sent at least six men to Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.) and three to the Mississippi country; the following year he sent nine to Michilimackinac. About 1796 he formed a partnership with William Parker and Samuel Gerrard*, and the new firm, called Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy, was soon engaged in the trade south and west from Michilimackinac. By 1800 the company, which was based in Montreal, had taken in a partner at Quebec, John Mure*, and jointly they ran a transatlantic shipping and passenger service; the arrangement lasted until 1811 at least. The partnership had continued to expand, and in 1803 it was known as Parker, Gerrard, Ogilvy and Company; that year Sir Alexander Mackenzie entered the firm, bringing the total number of partners to nine, each of whom had one share. Its affairs in London were confided to Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Gillespie, Parker and Company, the Quebec business to Mure, and Michilimackinac affairs to George Gillespie*; Ogilvy, Gerrard, and Thomas Yeoward attended to company matters at Montreal.
Meanwhile, in the late 1790s Ogilvy, representing Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy, had begun trading north and west of the Great Lakes; in 1799 he sent four canoes to Grand Portage (near Grand Portage, Minn.). The following year the intense competition of the North West Company [see Simon McTavish] drove him under the umbrella of the New North West Company, which Forsyth, Richardson and Company [see John Richardson*] and the Detroit firm of Leith, Jameson and Company had organized in 1798 in order to maintain themselves in the northwest trade in the face of the NWC’s opposition; Parker, Gerrard and Ogilvy invested nearly £8,000 in trade goods. According to the trader John McDonald, Ogilvy was “at the head” of the reorganized New North West Company, which was also known after 1799 as the New Company or the XY Company. By 1802 Ogilvy had joined with Mackenzie, Mure, the winterer James Leith*, and two other traders to form a partnership within the New North West Company called Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Company.
Archibald Ogilvie (1750–1820),
Alexander Ogilvie and Helen Watson
On April 28, 1863, he married Margaret Watson (1839–1915), whose father, Thomas Watson, of Brown & Watson, contractors, was involved in the construction of the Victoria Bridge and the Lachine Canal. They had 9 children of whom 8 survived to adulthood.
John Ogilvie (1833–1888)
Alexander Walker Ogilvie
William Watson Ogilvie
took over their father Alexander's flour
Archibald Ogilvie (1750–1820), m. Agnes WATSON
James Ogilvy (1773-1820), 46
John Ogilvy (1775- )
William Ogilvey (1777-1853), 76
Alexander Ogilvie, esq. (1779-1858), 79
Agnes
Archibald (1783- 1861), 78
Agnes (1782-1819), 37
Catherine (1788-1856), 68
Helen Ogilvy (1793-1870), 77
Son of Arcihibald Ogilvy (1783-1861) m. Catherine Henderson
Ogilvie was born at Holefield, near Kelso, Borders, Scotland on 21 August 1869 to George Ogilvie and Agnes Christie, the second child of eight.George farmed the lands of the Earl of Dalkeith on the Buccleuch Estates. Agnes, an orphan of the Indian Mutiny at Cawnpore, was a gifted pianist. Of the eight children – Zoe (b. 1867), George (b. 1872), Winifred (b. 1873), Tom (b. 1875), Eric (b. 1876), Kate (b. 1879), and Gladys (b. 1884) – William was the only one to marry.
MOFFATT, GEORGE, businessman and politician; b. 13 Aug. 1787 at Sidehead, Weredale, Durham, England; m. first in 1809 an Indian whose name is not known (they had one son, Lewis), and secondly Sophia MacRae, by whom he had three sons; d. 25 Feb. 1865 in Montreal, Canada East.
After some schooling in London, George Moffatt came to Canada in 1801 at the age of 14 under the sponsorship of Montreal merchant John Ogilvy*. Further schooling with William Nelson at Sorel preceded his entry into his patron’s firm, Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy, a major component of the XY Company. He later left them to join the firm of McTavish, McGillivray, and Company, the principal partner in the rival North West Company, and took part in a number of trips to Fort William (Thunder Bay, Ont.). In 1811 Moffatt set up his own firm in partnership with Alexander Dowie, a nephew of Sir Alexander Mackenzie*, which soon merged with Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy. After several changes the firm became known as Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company with Moffatt the principal Montreal partner and Robert Gillespie his associate in London. Although the firm became a major Montreal supply house for the fur trade, Moffatt was by no means totally committed to the North West Company; in 1809, while still working for McTavish, McGillivray, and Company, he was ready to join with Colin Robertson* in establishing an agency of the Hudson’s Bay Company in Montreal.
After serving briefly during the War of 1812 with the Montreal volunteers at Laprairie under Charles-Michel d’Irumberry* de Salaberry, Moffatt aided Robertson, still an officer of the HBC, in his expeditions of 1815 and 1816 to the Athabaska country. He was one of Robertson’s close friends and in 1819 put John McLoughlin*, a discontented wintering partner of the NWC, in contact with the HBC, thus paving the way for the coalition of the two great fur-trading companies in 1821 [see Edward Ellice]. In facilitating the merger Moffatt was betraying an already failing cause: the NWC was losing money and had sacrificed much prestige during its protracted squabbles with Lord Selkirk [Douglas*]. As a major Montreal merchant Moffatt no doubt wanted a number of things which, to his mind, the merger would accomplish, among them the settlement of the NWC’s debts, including some to Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company, and the elimination of competition and of generally chaotic conditions in the fur trade.
By 1821 Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company had become one of the major import-export houses of Montreal. It dealt in a wide range of imported manufactured goods, including groceries and dry goods and hardware, as well as the increasing volume of up-country staple commodities being shipped down the St Lawrence for foreign markets. The firm occupied large premises facing the Lachine Canal wharves, where it received its incoming shipments. Its affairs expanded substantially during the next decade and by the mid 1840s Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company received more seaborne goods than any other firm in Montreal, handling in 1845 alone the cargo of 15 foreign ships. By this time the company itself owned one large ship and was hiring several others each year to haul cargo overseas, much of it on consignment to Moffatt’s British-based partners, Alexander and Robert Gillespie. A branch of the firm, Moffatt, Murray, and Company, was later opened in Toronto by Moffatt’s eldest son, Lewis.
Like most of his business contemporaries, Moffatt had many other interests besides his own firm. He was an investor in the Lower Canada Land Company (formed in 1825) and a Canadian representative of the British American Land Company which had vast holdings in the Eastern Townships. Moffatt had his own substantial land holdings in Lower Canada including an island in the St Lawrence opposite Montreal. One of Moffatt, Gillespie, and Company’s most important sidelines was insurance. The firm managed the Canadian branch of the Phoenix Fire Assurance Company which had had policies in the Canadas since 1804; by 1845, under Moffatt’s management, the company had policies for £285,000 in Montreal. In that year a special inspector was sent from London and reported favourably on Moffatt’s judgement in accepting risks in Montreal.
"H. W. Macdonald was a photographer located at 57 High Street in Eton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his postcard images and photographic prints of Eton and Eton College. While other prominent photographers with the surname Macdonald have also worked in Eton (notably Ian Macdonald), the specific initials H. W. and the address at 57 High Street distinguish this earlier "
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