Family tree of McEachern then MacKechnie.
Beginning with Duncan McEachern b. c.1745, Plinalbanach, Mull m. Mary Macdonald b. c.1750
parents of Hugh, Donald and Isabel. Hugh McEachern b. c.1779 moved to Tiree married Mary McCallum in 1839, Tiree. Donald McEachern b. c.1811 moved to Tiree and married Mary Cameron in 1839 then widowed, married Catherine Currie or MacArthur 1861.
The tree detail continues to about the 1950s.
Photographs of Donald and Catherine MacKechnie. With a family tree of McEachern / MacKechnie.
Photograph of Donald MacKechnie, b. c.1846, Kenovay d. 1923, Iona. Buried Relig Odhráin, Iona.
Poet, postman, music teacher (psalmody), joiner
Photograph of Catherine MacKechnie, b. 1848, Mull. Married Donald, above in 1868. d. 1919 Iona.
Lived in Tiree and Glasgow (when Donald went there for work). Pictured in mourning for her mother, sally MacDonald or Mcphail nee Lamont, who died 1877
Entries with Tiree connections from Jo Currie’s “Pupitre”, a card index of Mull people created during her research for her book “Mull, the Island and its People”.
Softback book “‘Prospects Are Improving’ The Story of Francis Simpson and family, Manitoba Pioneers” by Francis Simpson
Francis Simpson emigrated from Lancashire, England to Manitoba, Canada in 1882. He wrote his life story which was found and published by his descendants.
There are numerous references to the Lamont family of Tiree and a chapter on a visit to Tiree in 1905.
Hardback book ‘Carmina Gadelica – Ortha nan Gaidheal, Vol. VI’ of hymns and incantations from the highlands and islands of Scotland, translated into English by Alexander Carmichael, 1900.
