Dates: 1870s

2007.33.1

Copied photograph of Flora MacDonald Coghill nee Kennedy around 1871 in New Zealand.

Flora MacDonald Coghill née Kennedy, the daughter of Hugh Kennedy and Jessie MacDonald of Sleat, Skye holding her son Robert, born in 1870, in Watahuna, New Zealand. Flora was born in Tiree in 1852 or 1853, married Robert Coghill in 1868 and died in Dunedin in 1923. (Copy of original photo from donor and view of New Zealand in Filing Cabinet 9 drawer 1)

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2006.56.5

Photocopied extract from `Township of Bruce: Death Registrations for 1879-1899`.

Extract from a Bruce County Genealogical Society publication listing deaths in Bruce County between 1879 and 1889.

2006.45.1

Copy of tintype photograph of Neil Cameron 1824-1909.

Neil Cameron (1824-1909) of Balevullin who emigrated to Canada on the `Charlotte` in 1849 with his widowed mother Flora MacFarlane Cameron and his brothers and sisters. He married Margaret Thornhill in 1857 and had five children: John, Robert, Margret Jane, Hugh and Flora. He moved to Michigan and then Minnesota where he took out American citizenship.

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2006.45.2

Copy of tintype photograph of Flora MacFarlane, wife of Hugh Cameron, with her grandchildren around 1873.

Flora MacFarlane, wife of Hugh Cameron of Balevullin, with her grandchildren Neal (b. 1867), Margaret Jane (b. 1861) and Isabella (b. 1869), taken around 1873. Born in 1795 in Kilkenneth, the daughter of Neil MacFarlane and Marion MacLean, Flora, then a widow, emigrated to Canada with four of her children on board the `Charlotte` in 1849. The family settled in Bruce County, Ontario.

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