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.
Vaul in the 1920s. L-R: Margaret Doig; her aunt Maggie MacKinnon; (seated) Maggie`s brother-in law joiner, boatbuilder and carpenter John MacKinnon (Iain Mac Eoghainn Ruaidh); Margaret Johnston nee Pettigrew, Margaret Doig`s mother; Maggie`s brother-in-law Lachlan MacKinnon (Lachann Mac Eoghainn Ruaidh). The father of Iain and Lachie, Eoghann Ruadh, was Alasdair Sinclair`s grandfather`s father. Outside the MacKinnon home, Gunna View, Vaul.
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.
Photocopied newspaper article about Malcolm Campbell, Balemartine, who survived four sinkings in the two World Wars.
Newspaper article ‘Survived Four Sinkings in Two Wars’ published in the Campeltown Courier, 8th May, 1943. The story of Malcolm Campbell, a ship`s carpenter from Tiree, whose ship was sunk twice in World War I and who was torpedoed twice in four months during World War II.
Black and white group photograph taken at the Lodge in the 1910s or 1920s.
The Lodge in the 1910s or 1920s. L-R: (back) Hugh MacIntyre, Gott; Mary Ann MacLean, Scarinish; John MacKinnon, Kirkapol; Annie MacIntyre, the Lodge; Jessie MacPhee, Scarinish; Malcolm MacIntyre, Gott; Duggie M MacDonald, Scarinish; James MacIntyre, Gott; Alice Lauder, London; Peggy MacKinnon, Heanish; (seated) Malcolm MacLean, Scarinish; Mrs Allan MacFadyen, Gott; John Campbell, the Lodge; Mrs Flora MacPhail, Kirkapol; Hector MacInnes, the Lodge; John macPhail, Vaul; nurse from London.
