David Reekie came to London, from either Scotland (according to
family tradition)
or Ireland (according to the 1841 Census), sometime before 1815.
Most of his descendants worked as lightermen or watermen on the River
Thames
and lived in Stepney, Limehouse, Poplar and other areas of East London.
Alfred Reekie (1876-1970), 2nd bottom left, during the
1918-1919 Anglo-French Campaign to relieve
the White Russians. Photograph probably taken in Arkhangelsk
in 1919.
(Collection of Roderick James Craig)
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