Black and white photograph of John MacNeill with Pat Hobden in South Africa.
John Napier McNeill was born at `Argyle` near Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1881. He was the second child of Donald MacNeill from Hough and his wife Mary Napier who were married in Glasgow in 1877. John is holding his niece Vivienne Patricia Hobden (1924-1998), known as Pat, the daughter of his sister Sarah Currie MacNeill.
Black and white photograph of Donald and Mary Flora MacKinnon and their family in Tiree in 1925.
The MacKinnon family of Balephuil in 1925, two years before emigrating to New Zealand. L-R: Dolina, Mary, Annie, blacksmith Donald MacKinnon originally from Balinoe, Hugh, Donald`s wife Mary Flora Campbell, Sarah, unknown woman.
Black and white photograph of Mary Flora MacKinnon of Balephuil in New Zealand.
Mary Flora MacKinnon nee Campbell of Balephuil at the door of her house at Maraekakaho in New Zealand.
Black and white photograph of the MacKinnon family at Maraekakho in New Zealand.
Blacksmith Donald MacKinnon of Balinoe with his wife Mary Flora Campbell of Balephuil and their children Hugh, Dolly, Annie, Sarah and Mary on the verandah of their house at Maraekakho in New Zealand.
Black and white photograph of the MacKinnon family in New Zealand.
The MacKinnon family in New Zealand. L-R: Annie, blacksmith Donald MacKinnon, Sarah, Donald`s wife Mary Flora Campbell, Mary, Dolly and Hugh.
Copied account by Donald MacLeod of Lewis of Tiree men lost during the world wars.
Account of men from Tiree lost during WWI and WWII.
Plan of the S.S. Hebrides (1898-1955) prepared by Ewen McGee.
Plan of the S.S. Hebrides (1898-1955) prepared by Ewen McGee.
Three obituaries for Captain John Campbell of Coll.
Three obituaries for Captain John Campbell of Coll (1852-1921).
Copy of a sepia photograph of Captain John Cambell of Coll and two others in the 1910s.
Captain John Cambell of Coll and two other officers at the stern of SS Hebrides in the 1910s.
Biographical information about Bill Martin (1916-1942), a wireless operator/gunner in RAF 224 Squadron who was briefly posted to Tiree in 1942. Bill and all but one of his fellow crew members lost their lives when their plane collided with a barrage balloon in fog on the edge of Dartmoor in October 1942. A memorial was unveiled there by Bill’s widow in 2018.
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