Black and white photograph of Edward Dash around 1886.
Edward Dash, husband of Catherine Macdonald from Balinoe, photographed around 1886.
2007.25.2
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Dates: 1880s
2007.25.3
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) around 1888.
Hugh Macdonald, born in 1850, the son of John MacDonald, a blacksmith at Balinoe, and his second wife, Flora Campbell. In 1853 Hugh emigrated to Australia with his parents, brother Hector and stepsister Catherine on board the S.S. Utopia. He trained as a school teacher and in 1881 married a widow Mary Grace Hamilton. The couple had thirteen children. Hugh died in 1927 of heart failure. The photograph was taken around 1888.
2007.25.4
Black and white photograph of Mary Grace Hamilton, wife of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe.
Mary Grace Hamilton (née Cross) photographed around 1888. Mary Grace was the wife of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927), the son of John MacDonald, a blacksmith at Balinoe, and his second wife, Flora Campbell, who emigrated to Australia on board the S.S. Utopia in 1853.
2007.25.6
Black and white photograph of Ebenezer Dash (1870-1927), son of Catherine MacDonald from Balinoe.
Ebenezer Dash (1870-1927), eldest surviving child of Catherine MacDonald from Balinoe and her husband Edward Dash. After his parents died in 1890-91 he became head of the family at the age of twenty-one, ‘father’ to his seven siblings aged from three to nineteen. He had outstanding career as a teacher, rising to the position of headmaster at early age. He married in 1895 and had four children. The photograph was taken around 1886.
2007.1.1
Sepia photograph of Donald Maclean of Cornaigbeg around 1890.
Donald MacLean of Cornaigbeg, a worker in the Salvage Corps, photographed in Glasgow around 1890. His mother Marion Black MacLean is buried in Kirkapol cemetery with her son Charles who died aged two.
2006.164.4
Black & white photograph of the ferryboat approaching the steamer off Scarinish in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
Courtesy of Mrs Mary Cameron
Before Gott Bay pier was completed in 1913, passengers, livestock and cargo had to be ferried by rowboat between Scarinish harbour and the steamer anchored offshore in deeper water, a somewhat hazardous journey in bad weather.
This photograph of the tender approaching the steamer was taken on a calm day in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The service was operated for many years by Archibald MacKinnon (Èardsaidh ’ic Eòghainn) without serious accident.
The substantial building in the centre background is the store at Scarinish; the one on the left is the school. Between the two lay the Reading Room, now An Iodhlann, where passengers awaited the arrival of the steamer.
2006.98.6
Hardback book `Too Much Land?` by Alan L. Scarfe.
An illustrated history of Maraekakaho Station at Hawkes Bay, New Zealand 1877-1929.
2006.73.2
Photocopied extract from periodical `An Deo-Greine` about teacher Donald MacKinnon.
Obituary for Donald MacKinnon (1845-1918) who taught in Scarinish and Cornagmore schools.
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.
2005.157.1
Paperback book `Morvern Transformed` by Philip Gaskell.
A study of the social and economic change in the Highland Parish of Moervern in the 19th century.
De-accessioned 26.2.2026.