Photocopy of letter sent c. 1900 from Lachlan MacFadyen, Heanish to his son, Hector.
An elderly father exhorts his son to remain true to his Christian faith.
2001.201.1
2 Replies
Dates: 1910s
2001.201.2
Captain Hector MacFadyen of Heanish
Photograph of Captain Hector MacFadyen of Heanish aboard the paddle steamer ‘Bonnie Doon’ in 1911.
Hector MacFadyen was born in Heanish in 1868, the son of Lachlan MacFadyen and his wife Christina MacNeill. He qualified as a Master Mariner and settled in Bristol, spending most of his career working for the P. & A. Campbell Pleasure Steamer Company.
He is pictured here aboard the paddle steamer ‘Bonnie Doon’ in 1911 with his wife Emma Eliza Coates who is holding their fourth son Ronald. Many of the steamers, along with their captains and crews, were requisitioned by the Admiralty during World War I and deployed as minesweepers and coastal ferries.
Hector’s four sons also served some time with the company, his eldest son Hector becoming chief engineer. His third son Angus died aged twenty-one in an accident in Venice while serving on the ‘Cymric Queen’. Hector himself continued to sail into the late 1920s before retiring in Bristol where he died in 1953 aged eighty-five.
Copy of a photograph of Captain Hector MacFadyen aboard the `Bonnie Doon`.
Captain Hector MacFadyen of Heanish with his wife Emma and baby son, Ronald, aboard the paddle steamer `Bonnie Doon` in 1911.
2001.200.1
White linen tablecloth with 9 cm border crocheted by Christina MacKinnon nee MacAthur, and used as a table cover at her daughter`s wedding reception in the Lodge Hotel in 1967.
2001.200.2
White linen traycloth with 5 cm border crocheted by Christina MacKinnon nee MacAthur.
2001.200.3
White linen traycloth with 25 mm corcheted border and triangular area, crocheted by Christina MacKinnon nee MacArthur, Barrapol.
1997.26.2
Photocopy of blacksmith`s bill to Hugh MacLean, 1912.
Bill for new cart axle at £1 8/6d from Hector MacLean, Otago Lane, Hillhead, Glasgow, dated 17/8/1912.
1997.18.9
Extracts regarding the Very Rev. Dugald MacFarlane and his daughter
Extract from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae and two newspaper articles re the Very Rev. Dugald MacFarlane and photographs of his gravestone and that of his daughter.
1997.18.10
Newspaper article and cartoon re Dr. Dugald MacFarlane, 1936
Photocopied article from the Glasgow Herald, 26/10/1936, re Dr. Dugald MacFarlane, plus cartoon.
1998.6.1
Laminated handwritten Gaelic poem composed by John MacEachern, Cornaigbeg
(unknown)
1998.7.1
Photocopy of Donald MacKechnie`s Protection & Identity Certificate
World War I Identity Certificate for men of H.M. Naval Service.