Christmas card from late 1800s-early 1900s
Small paper christmas card from late 1800s-early 1900s. Colour picture of holly/mistleto(?) being transported by horse and cart along a snowy lane. “Seasons Greetings” on front. Greeting and prayer on side, and poem by Clara Simpson. Signed by “M Surann” or “Ms Susann”.
Original photocopy of map relating to enlargement of croft in Kenovay off Tom Barr`s farm in 1903.
Original photocopy of map relating to enlargement of Campbell`s croft in Kenovay off Tom barr`s farm. See 2009.21.2 for newer photocopy.
Pottery ink pot
Pottery ink pot thought to be around 100 years old. Dug up in garden in Cornaig by Archie MacKinnon. Belonged to his grandmother Mary-Flora Lamont of Cornaig.
Black and white photograph of John MacKinnon and his wife Christena Clark in front of their farmhouse on Lot 31, Concession 11, Kincardine Township, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
John’s niece, Retta MacKinnon preserved the following memories of her Uncle John (see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~russmcgillivray/mackinnon/page1.html )
“Uncle John always prayed in Gaelic at church for the communion service, also said the grace in Gaelic, as did my father, but Uncle John always began his grace the same way – “Holaidh o Ghia”.
Uncle John did not mince words when he spoke. I was down at Uncle Johns for supper one night, and as usual was plied with meat, potatoes, vegetables, biscuits, fruit and pie. I unfortunately make the remark “I ate too much supper”, as more food was pressed on me. Uncle John looked at me as if I were a worm and said, “Your Uncle John is ashamed of you, not knowing when to stop eating.” Cousin Finnie [John’s son], sitting beside me, pressed my hand in sympathy! We were all a little afraid of Uncle John.
A council from the various churches met at the Association meeting in Tiverton to question a young minister, who was to be ordained. Some members of the Council asked a number of catchy questions, and the young man was finding it a bit difficult to answer though he had answered the fundamentals well. Suddenly Uncle John stood up and said, “That will do now! You are asking him questions that you can`t answer yourselves!” The young man came to him after the meeting and thanked him.
We respected Uncle John, but only once did I make him smile, and it was like ice breaking up after a long winter.”
Black and white photograph of four of the ten children of Archibald MacKinnon (1837-1914), son of Fingon MacKinnon, and his wife Catherine MacDonald. L-R: Margaret (Retta), Malcolm (Mac), Elizabeth and Hughena (Eva).
Sepia photograph of descendants of Fingon MacKinnon from Salum and his wife Christena MacLean from Ruaig: Finnie MacKinnon (1868-1929), the son of John MacKinnon and his wife Christena Clark, with his first cousins Retta (Margaret) and Finnie George, two of the children of Archibald MacKinnon and his wife Catherine MacDonald.
Black and white photograph of John Hector MacKinnon with his brother Dan.
Descendants of Fingon MacKinnon and his wife Christina MacLean: John Hector MacKinnon and his brother Donald known as Dan, sons of Hugh MacKinnon and his wife Ann MacDonald. One of Dan’s cousins recalled many decades later in a letter to his daughter, ‘On one of his visits East, your father, a gay Lothario, had a grand winter in Ontario. The girls all fell for him. He was all dressed up in fur-lined coat and fur cap and he was good-looking and he met and married your mother.’
Printout of a scanned postcard postmarked 1916 from nurse Elizabeth MacKinnon, granddaughter of Fingon MacKinnon to her aunt Christie in Canada, plus a short biography of Elizabeth`s life.
List of Tiree mariners 1914-1920 extracted from documents at the National Archives at Kew.
Extracts from Crew Lists & Agreements 1914-1920 held at the National Archives at Kew giving, under each ship, the names of Tiree sailors, their age and address, rank, the dates of the voyage, and the sailor`s previous ship.
Black and white photograph of fishing smacks at Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century. People from Tiree who emigrated there at that time, would have fished from these boats.
