Black and white photograph of the MacDonald family of Balemartine in the 1926.
The MacDonald family of Balemartine in July 1926.
1998.103.18
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1998.103.19
The seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine
Photograph of the seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Maggie Campbell
The seven MacDonald sisters Chrissie, Mary Ann, Sarah, Mary Jane, Neilina, Mairead and Hughina are pictured outside their home in Balemartine in the late 1920s. To supplement the family income, the first six daughters left home aged between 14 and 16 to work on the mainland, mainly in service in Glasgow.
It was believed that a seventh child had healing powers in their hands to cure scrofula (tuberculosis of the neck glands) also known as ‘tinneas an rìgh’, the King’s Evil. The disease was so called because it was formerly supposed to be healed by the touch of a king.
On Tiree, the healer would cross their hands over the swellings three times the first day, four times the second day and seven times the next. They could not be paid in money but were later often given a gift by their grateful patients.
Black and white photograph of the seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine in the 1926.
The seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine in the 1920s. L-R: Chrissie, Sarah, Mary Ann, Mary Jane, Neilina, Mairead and Hughina (Veendy).
1998.103.20
Black and white photograph of a picnic on Kennavara in 1938.
Picnic on Kennavara in 1938. Everyone went on Calum MacPhail`s lorry. L-R: (front row) Marion Maclean, Kilmoluaig, aunt to Alasdair Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow; Maggie MacKechnie, daughter of Donald (7) and Mary Ann (5); Archie MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, father of John (4) and Mary Flora (13); Mrs Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow, mother of Peggy (12); Peggy Kennedy, Kilmoluaig and Glasgow; Mary Flora MacDonald, Kilmoluig, sister of John (4) and daughter of Archie (10); (back) Mrs Campbell (manager of Highlanders Institute, Glasgow; Hugh Kennedy, piper, Sunshine Cottage, Kilmoluaig; Hughina MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, sister of Murdoch MacDonald; John MacDonald, Kilmoluaig, brother of Mary Flora (13); Mary Ann MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig, mother of Maggie (9); Calum MacPhail, Balephetrish, father of the late Hector MacPhail; Donald MacKechnie, Kilmoluaig, husband of Mary Ann (5) and father of Maggie (9).
1998.103.9
Black and white photograph of Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine in the 1930s.
Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine (Maggie Campbell`s mother) in the 1930s.
1998.103.11
Black and white photograph of the MacDonald family of Balemartine.
L-R: Maggie Campbell`s aunt Hughina (Veendy), her mother Mary Ann MacKechnie nee MacDonald, Jean MacDonald (Mary Ann`s and Hughina`s mother) and Maggie herself in the foreground, taken around 1927-8.
1998.103.14
Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine
Photograph of Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine feeding a calf.
Courtesy of Mrs Maggie Campbell
Home on holiday from service in Pollockshields, Glasgow in July 1929, sisters Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine are pictured in their Sunday best feeding the family’s three month old calf.
Calves were separated from their mothers immediately after birth to ensure a supply of milk for the house. When old enough, they would be tethered in the summer pasture at Hynish, three miles distant from the croft house, and fed milk from a pail supplemented with meal.
Calves were fed in this manner for up to eight months and sold three or four months later, providing the family’s main source of income.
Black and white photograph of sisters Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine.
Sisters Mary Jane and Mary Ann MacDonald of Balemartine feeding a calf in Hynish in July 1929.
1998.103.13
Black and white photograph of the MacDonald family and friends in Balemartine in the 1920s.
Balemartine in the 1920s. L-R: Neilina MacDonald, Jean MacDonald (mother of Neilina and Sarah), two visitors, Sarah MacDonald.
2003.136.2
Copied black and white photograph of Nancy MacKechnie and Maggie Campbell with her son Alasdair in 1965.
L-R: Nancy MacKechnie née Sinclair of Crossapol and Maggie Campbell née MacKechnie of Kilmoluaig with her son Alasdair on his christening day in 1965.
2003.117.1
Audio cassette recording of Annie Ellen MacQuarrie interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll on 10/7/2003.
Maggie Campbell talking to Annie Ellen MacQuarrie of Coll in July 2003 about her childhood and schooling in Coll in 1920s and 1930s, working in Tobermory and Glasgow, her return to Coll in the early 1950s to marry and raise a family and the changes she has seen in relation to farming, Gaelic and the schools. Maggie also talks to Bunty Kennedy about her childhood on Coll, recreation, the Coll Creamery, the Laird of Coll, farming, livestock sales and the transportation of animals by the cargo vessels `The Princess` and `The Loch Broom`. Tha Magaidh Chaimbeul a’ bruidhinn ri Anna Eilidh NicGuaire agus Bunty Cheannadach a Colla anns an Iuchar 2003 mu an leanabachd agus làithean-sgoile ann an Colla anns na 1920an ’s na 1930an, obair ann an Tobar Mhoire agus Glaschu, tilleadh gu Colla anns na 1950an airson pòsaidh agus togail chloinne, an croitearachd, an spòrs, an Taigh-bainne Cholla, Tighearna Cholla, tuathanachd, na margaidhean-sprèidh agus giùlan beathaichean anns na bàtaichean The Princess agus The Loch Broom.
2003.119.1
Audio cassette recording of Angus MacFarlane and Willie Robertson interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll Hotel on 10/7/2003.
Angus MacFarlane and Willie Robertson of Coll talk to Maggie Campbell in July 2003: Angus talks about the village of Sorisdale, the shipwreck of the Nevada, the transportation of passengers and cargo by small boat to and from the ferry The Loch Earn and his work in Canada in the 1960s and 70s, mostly on ice-breakers; Willie talks about his holidays on Coll as a young boy and a typical day’s work, where people fished and the sort of fish caught, moving sheep to Eilean Mòr in the summer and back again in September. (continues on AC235). Mairead Chaimbeul air Colla anns an t- Iuchair 2003, a’ bruidhinn ri Aonghas MacPhàrlain agus Uilleam MacDhonnchaidh. Tha Aonghas a’ bruidhinn mu dheidhinn Sorasdal, briseadh a Nevada agus mar a bha luchd-siubhal agus luchd air a ghiùlan air bata beag fon bàta aiseag The Loch Earn gu Eilean Cholla. Tha Uilleam a’ bruidhinn mu dheidhinn làithean saor nuair bha e na bhalach, ag iasgach agus a falbh le caoraich gu Eilean Mòr. (A leantainn air AC235)