Figure 1.--This snapshot is undated, but we think was taken about 1893 as the boy looks to be about 6 years old. The girls wear white dresses. The younger girl wears a bonnet. The older girl wears a hat which we are not sure how to describe. The boy wears a knee pants sailor suit with dark long stockings. Note the wide-brimmed hat. This is interesting, these hats do not seem very practical, but here we see one being worn on an outing. The younger children were born in Scotland and all three grew up in Dundee, Scotland. So this might be called a Scottish family. We do not know he names of the girls, but the boy was John William Abbott Steggall (1887-1916). John perished duruing the Battle of Jutland when his ship, the battlecruiser HMS Invicible, was struck by a German shell and exploded.

This snapshot shows the family of destinguished mathematician Professor John Steggall about 1893. While a snapshot, the photograph is printed as a CDV. John Edward Aloysius Steggal was born in London (1855). His father was Dr. J. W. B. Steggall, a physician whose ancestors came from East Anglia. He was educated under noted headmaster, Dr. Abbott, at the City of London School. He went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned various academic honors. He taught a few year in at colleges, but spent most of his career at newly founded University College of Dundee in Scotland (1883-1933). He had vrious interests, includung astrionomy, architecture, cycling, mountaineering, photography, and woodworking. His interest in photography explains why we have family snapshots and not just studio portraits. His collection of more than 2,000 photographs is archived at the University of St Andrews. He married Isabella Katherine Fraser from Gareloch, near Helensburgh in Scotland (1878). We do not know much about her, but it is likely she took the snapshot here. They had three children two girls and a boy. A family snapshot shows the children on an outing with their family, we think in 1893. The snapshot is undated, but we think was taken about 1893 as the boy looks to be about 6 years old. The girls wear white dresses. The younger girl wears a bonnet. The older girl wears a hat which we are not sure how to describe. The boy wears a knee pants sailor suit with dark long stockings. Note the wide-brimmed hat. This is interesting, hese hts do not seem very practical, but here we see one bing worn on an outing. The younger children were born in Scotland and all three grew up in Dundee, Scotland. So this might be called a Scottish family. We do not know he names of the girls, but the boy was John William Abbott Steggall (1887-1916). John perished duruing the Battle of Jutland when his ship, the battlecruiser HMS Invicible, was struck by a German shell and exploded.

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