Black and white photograph of the MacDonald family and friends in Balemartine in the 1920s.
Balemartine in the 1920s. L-R: Neilina MacDonald, Jean MacDonald (mother of Neilina and Sarah), two visitors, Sarah MacDonald.
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Dates: 1920s
1998.103.18
Black and white photograph of the MacDonald family of Balemartine in the 1926.
The MacDonald family of Balemartine in July 1926.
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The seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine
Photograph of the seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Maggie Campbell
The seven MacDonald sisters Chrissie, Mary Ann, Sarah, Mary Jane, Neilina, Mairead and Hughina are pictured outside their home in Balemartine in the late 1920s. To supplement the family income, the first six daughters left home aged between 14 and 16 to work on the mainland, mainly in service in Glasgow.
It was believed that a seventh child had healing powers in their hands to cure scrofula (tuberculosis of the neck glands) also known as ‘tinneas an rìgh’, the King’s Evil. The disease was so called because it was formerly supposed to be healed by the touch of a king.
On Tiree, the healer would cross their hands over the swellings three times the first day, four times the second day and seven times the next. They could not be paid in money but were later often given a gift by their grateful patients.
Black and white photograph of the seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine in the 1926.
The seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine in the 1920s. L-R: Chrissie, Sarah, Mary Ann, Mary Jane, Neilina, Mairead and Hughina (Veendy).
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Black and white photograph of three of the MacDonald sisters of Balemartine and a friend in the 1920s.
Three of the seven MacDonald sisters of Balemartine and a friend taken in the 1920s. L-R: Chrissie MacDonald (married Charlie MacDonald of Hynish and Mannal), Mary Jane MacDonald (married Charlie MacLean of Lewis and Glasgow), Morag (in service from Uist), and Mary Ann MacDonald (married Donald MacKechnie).
1998.103.10
Black and white photograph of the MacKechnie family of Kilmoluaig.
L-R: (back row) Donald MacKechnie and his father Alex, (front row) Donald`s sisters Marion and Joan, and Florence Munn who brought up the MacKechnie family when their mother Maggie died aged 32.
1998.103.11
Black and white photograph of the MacDonald family of Balemartine.
L-R: Maggie Campbell`s aunt Hughina (Veendy), her mother Mary Ann MacKechnie nee MacDonald, Jean MacDonald (Mary Ann`s and Hughina`s mother) and Maggie herself in the foreground, taken around 1927-8.
1998.60.1
Black and white photograph of Alec MacArthur`s grandfather and May and Ann Eoghainn a` Bhuth.
L-R: May Eoghainn a` Bhuth, an Ciobair (grandfather of Ailig MacArthur, Heylipol) and Anne Eoghainn a` Bhuth taken in Heylipol in the 1920s.
1998.92.2
Black and white photograph of Ruaig School around 1918.
Ruaig School around 1918. L-R: (front row) Helen Reilly, Milton; unknown; unknown; Mary Ann Lamont, Caoles; unknown; Morag MacDonald, Milton; unknown; (second row, behind second girl) Donald Archie Cameron, Caoles; unknown; unknown; unknown; unknown; unknown; (third row) Neil MacDonald, Skipnish; Donald MacDonald, Mull View, Caoles; Neil MacArthur, Milton; unknown; John Donald Lamont, Caoles; unknown; Hugh Archie MacKinnon, Ruaig; unknown; unknown; unknown; Hector MacKinnon, Caoles; (back row) Iain MacKinnon, Ruaig Post Office; headmaster Mr Rankine; unknown; unknown; unknown; Church of Scotland minister (?); Mr Taylor, Baptist Church (?); United Free Church minister (?).
1998.90.1
Black and white photograph of the gravestone of Hector Cameron and his wife Anna MacLean.
The gravestone of Hector Cameron (d. 23/9/1923) and his wife Anna MacLean (d. 28/1/1925) and their children Mairi Anna, Flora, Margaret Christina, the Rev. Hector (co-author of the Tiree & Coll Handbook) and Mairi.
1998.90.6
Black and white photograph of the mail boat `The Plover` coming in to Gott Bay pier.
The mail boat `The Plover` coming in to Gott Bay pier in the late 1920s or early 30s.
