Mystery Photographs - Various Youngs?

   The photograph above was collected by Bill Rae, one of the founders of YHS many years ago. It was taken in front of the now-ruined cottages along the road by the kirk, so it clearly has a Yetholm connection, but no notes have survived about the identity of the lady, She is clearly the owner of gig, as the horse is harnessed to pull such a vehicle - and her rug and whip confirm that she is about to set off, or has just completed, a run. Her rather smart clothes suggest this may have been a social visit, rather than an everyday journey. Judging by the style of the clothes and good-repair of the building behind her, the photograph may have been taken around 1890. But who is she?
   Archived alongside this image are two other formal photographic portraits:

   Might the women in all these photographs be related? The face is fuller, but the hairstyle is strikingly similar. For these two photographs above we do have some notes. The one on the right is said to be 'Jane Young, with Annie Young on the left and Robert Young on right'. Unfortunately these notes were made in the 1980s and the person who jotted them down can't remember making them! The situation is made more perplexing by the fact that the census for 1911 - the period in which, from the style of the clothing, these two photographs must have been taken - there was no one called 'Jane Young' living in Yetholm.
    In the later 19th century Alexander Young (1831-1891) was acrive in Kirk Yetholm as a skin dealer. One of this children was George (1866-1940) who married Margaret Tait. Two of their sons, Robert and Will, later went one to found the R&W Young haulage company, active in Kirk Yetholm from the 1920s to the 1990s (and who stored some of their vehicles in the cottages shown in the first photograph). The 1911 census details from the family are shown here:

     Their eldest daughter is listed as Mary however, after showing the photograps to Brian Young, a descendent of the Young family of Kirk Yetholm he comments: 'There is a slight chance that Jane Young in the pictures is the oldest daughter of George Young and Margaret Tait as she was christened Mary Jane so may well have been known as Jane. From the earlier left hand photo I would clearly recognise her as a Young and there is no other Jane Young that I am aware of in that generation or the preceding or subsequent ones. The only issue I have is age as Mary Jane was born 1890 and died 1918.' 
   The growth of family research means that people share material not otherwise publically available. On the Ancestry website someone has shared a photgraph of George Young and his family. Unfortunately it is of poor quality:

   Brian Young identifies the group as follows: 'Sitting are Robert his mother Margaret and his father George. Outwith those there are left to right Rachel, Jimmy, Doddie (George), Will, Annie and Bella (behind).'
    Another Young family photograph we have is this one:

    YHS records describe this as 'Nancy Young and dog Finder' - and, indeed, there is an inscription in the lower left corner 'With the Complements [of the Season] from Little Nancy'. The style of writing of this inscription is identical to that shown on the Christmas photograph above, so they must both have been made by the same photographer - and likely at around the same time (?). Brian suggests that this child may be Agnes Young (1910-1987), who was George Young's neice. Agnes was known as Nancy. Nancy and her sister were interviewed by members of YHS before their death and it may be that they were the source of the Young family photographs we have - unfortunately no proper records were kept at the time.
   One last photograph which we have of the Young family is this one:

   In this case the identification is clear. Brian writes - 'I can confirm that, that is definitely Bella [Young] and her mum [Margaret] ... Bella ...  lived until 1977 so I knew her quite well growing up, albeit by then she was a much older lady and quite hunched over; giving me a memory of her being much shorter in stature. She was a very kind lady who spent most of her life looking after her younger siblings and in some cases their children. She never married and remained in that cottage pretty much right up until her passing.' The photograph must have been taken before 1942, the year Margaret died. The cottage mentioned here is the now empty building, next to the old R & W Young garage in Kirk Yetholm.
    Bella, as mentioned, is present in the family photograph shown above. Personally I am struck by the similarity of her face to that of the lady in the photograph at the start of the blog:

   Or is this all in my imagination? Might there be a family connection? If there is a connection, who might she be ....? Suggestions welcome!