Black and white photograph of Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, and others.
L-R: unknown airman, Jimmy Sibbald of Glasgow, unknown airman, Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm and Hendry, Elsie`s adopted brother, at the window, taken during WWII.
Black and white photograph of poet Alasdair MacCallum of Vaul.
Poet Alasdair MacCallum of Vaul. (He had mental health problems and stayed in the house for years.)
Black and white photograph of Ruaig School around 1912-1913.
Ruaig School around 1912-13. L-R: (front row) unknown; Iain MacKinnon, Ruaig Post Office; Neil Iain MacDonald, Skipnish; unknown; unknown; unknown; Calum Lamont, Harbour, Milton; John Donald Lamont, Harbour, Milton; (middle row) teacher Bella Black, Vaul (also taught in Barra, Benderloch and Jura); Iain MacLean, Vaul; Neil MacFarlane, Vaul; Neil MacPhail, Kirkapol; John MacKinnon, Rhum View, Vaul; Hugh Archie MacArthur, Milton; Donald Clark MacLean, Ruaig Sliabh; Hector Meek, Caoles; Donald MacDonald, Mull View, Caoles; Neil MacArthur, Milton; unknown; Mary MacLean, Vaul; unknown; Catriona MacLean, Vaul; Mr Rankine, Headmaster; (back row) Willie Heatherington, Ruaig; unknown; unknown; unknown; Charlie MacLean, Croish; Alick Campbell, Vaul; unknown; Donald Mackinnon, Milton; Hector MacKinnon, Harbour, Milton; unknown; Maggie MacDonald, Skipnish.
Black and white photograph of Johnny MacKinnon, brother of the Rev. Hector MacKinnon.
Johnny MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, brother of the Rev. Hector MacKinnon. He emigrated to Manitoba with his brother Charlie who died in Canada from flu.
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Black and white photograph of Donald MacKinnon of Kirkapol and his wife Ann MacLean.
Donald MacKinnon and his wife Ann MacLean of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, the parents of Rev. Hector MacKinnon.
Black & white photograph of Rev. Duncan MacFarlane (1822-1908), Balemartine, and his family around 1900.
Courtesy of Ms Elsie MacKinnon
Rev. Duncan MacFarlane (1822-1908), Baptist minister at Tobermory and Tiree, his wife Catherine and their children, the Very Rev. Dr. Dugald MacFarlane (1869-1956), former Moderator of the Church of Scotland, and his sister Anne, probably taken around 1900.
John MacFarlane, Duncan’s brother, was the first Tiree-born Baptist pastor. In 1851 John succeeded Rev. Duncan MacDougall, a devoted itinerant evangelist who, along with the Rev. Archibald Farquharson of the Congregational Church, was prominent in the religious awakening of 1839-1846.
Duncan MacFarlane, who had converted through the preaching of Rev. Farquharson, left Tiree to become a merchant in Tobermory. He was accepted as a Baptist missionary in 1856 and proved influential in the revival of 1874 in Tiree. In 1879 he succeeded his brother as pastor of the Tiree Baptist Church, which he served until his death in 1908.
Black and white photograph of Duncan MacKinnon, Lodge Farm.
Duncan MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, brother of Rev. Hector MacKinnon and son of couple in L14, probably taken in the early 1900s.
Rev Hector MacKinnon
Photograph of Rev Hector MacKinnon.
Courtesy of Ms Elsie MacKinnon
Rev. Hector MacKinnon was born at Lodge Farm in Kirkapol in 1866, the son of Donald MacKinnon and his wife Ann MacLean. He studied at Edinburgh University where he won prizes in several Arts and Divinity classes and was awarded three bursaries.
In 1891 he was licensed as a minister and the following year chosen as the successor to Rev John Gregorson Campbell in Tiree. From 1894 to 1897 he ministered in Stornoway and then in Campbeltown until 1905 when he was called to the parish of Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow.
His eloquence as a preacher in English and Gaelic earned him the soubriquet of ‘Spurgeon of the North’. He died in 1913 aged forty-six from influenza complicated by pneumonia. A plaque in Kirkapol church commemorates his life.
Black and white photograph of Rev. Hector MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Rev. Hector MacKinnon (1866-1913) of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol. Born at Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, he studied at Edinburgh University, was ordained as a minister in 1890 and served in Tiree in 1891. He ministered in Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow where he died unexpectedly aged 46.
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacKinnon, uncle of Margaret MacInnes, Ruaig.
Hugh MacKinnon, uncle of Margaret MacInnes, Ruaig.
Black and white photograph of Elsie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm.
Elsie MacKinnon as a young girl. She was adopted by Catherine MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol (see photos M6 and T88) in the 1920s where she remained fostering children and working the croft.
