Black and white photograph of Mary Margaret MacLean, May MacPhail and Mary MacEachern.
Mary Margaret MacLean, Cornaigbeg (Alec Mor`s aunt), May MacPhail, Harbour, Cornaigmore (Hector MacPhail`s aunt) and Mary MacEachern, Cornaigbeg, the blacksmith`s daughter, taken in the early 1920s.
Black and white photograph of Archie and Fileag MacEachern in Harris in the 1920s.
Leverburgh Sunday School, Harris in the 1920s. Archie MacEachern, the blacksmith at Cornaigbeg and also a lay preacher, is in the centre and his sister Fileag is second left.
Black and white photograph of Peggy and Hugh MacEachern around 1920.
Peggy MacEachern of Cornaigbeg with Hugh, son of her brother Archie the blacksmith, taken around 1920.
Black and white photograph of sisters Bella and Flora MacEachern.
Sisters Bella and Flora MacEachern of Cornaigbeg photographed at the beginning of the 20th century. Flora married John Campbell from Garaphail and Bella married Alex MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg.
Black and white photograph of Mary Margaret MacLean of Cornaigbeg around 1920.
Mary Margaret MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg around 1920. She died in 1938 aged 25 of septicaemia following tonsillectomy.
Black and white photograph of the Renfrew works which employed John MacEachern.
The Renfrew works which employed John MacEachern from Cornaigbeg (Mairi Brady`s grandfather) as a blacksmith.
Black and white photograph of John MacEachern, Cornaigbeg, with an unknown woman.
Blacksmith John MacEachern of Cornaigbeg (Mairi Brady`s grandfather) with an unknown woman, taken during the 1910s or 1920s.
Black and white photograph of Taigh Sarah in Vaul in the 1920s.
Taigh Sarah in Vaul in the 1920s. L-R: Margaret Doig`s father; Sarah MacFarlane (Sarah Neill); a friend of Mr Doig. Sarah was a widow; all her family except for one son died of TB. Her house was built by the township `in a day`. A porch was added in the 1930s. The roof was tarred with heated road tar which, if put on too hot, ran down the walls.
‘Taigh Sarah’ in Vaul
Photograph of Sarah MacFarlane outside her house in Vaul in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Nan MacClounnan
Sarah MacFarlane (Sarah Nèill) is pictured on the right outside her house in Vaul in the 1920s. Sarah was a widow; all her family except for one son had died of tuberculosis, a disease that was prevalent in Tiree in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
After it was established in the 1880s that TB was contagious, it was made a notifiable disease, although it was not recognised until much later that the infection could also be transmitted through milk from infected cows.
Sarah’s original house was destroyed as it was thought a source of infection and a new one was built by the men of the township ‘in a day’. A porch was added in the 1930s. The felt roof was water-proofed with heated road tar which ran down the walls if put on in hot weather.
Black and white photograph of Taigh Sarah in Vaul in the 1920s.
Taigh Sarah in Vaul in the 1920s. L-R: unknown, Margaret Johnston nee Pettigrew, Margaret Doig`s mother; Sarah MacFarlane (Sarah Neill).
Black and white photograph of Margaret Doig`s parents in the 1920s.
Tiree in the 1920s. L-R: Harry Johnston,Margaret Doig`s father; unknown; unknown; Harry`s wife, Margaret Pettigrew; unknown; unknown. Mary Flora MacKinnon of Rhum View married Jimmy Pettigrew, Margaret`s brother.
