Norma when I was young here in Scotland women did not go to Funerals when my gran was buried 47 years ago it was all males who attended. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norma Callicott" <norcal@telus.net> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:05 AM Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Did women go to funerals? > My relatives have told my that an old picture I have posted on the > internet, believed to be taken somewhere on Islay in the mid 1800s, is > from a funeral and that there are no women in the picture because they > didn't go to funerals. see photo at: www3.telus.net/artnorma/johnston. > > Or maybe it just wasn't common for women to be in many photos?? > > Any comments or thoughts? > > Norma > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > Find out who has books and research data pertaining to Islay at the > Virtual Library: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/library.htm >