Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 403, 3/11/2007.
Local news and events including Donald Berry in Zimbabwe and Cameroon, John Bowler`s book launch, the cattle sale, and updates from the RSPB and WRI.
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2007.30.1
Tufthill Farm, South Africa
Photograph of Tufthill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Courtesy of Mr Stanley Cawthorn
Marion MacNeill was born at Hough in 1841 and married Richard Brown in Glasgow in 1872. Five years later, her brother Donald married Mary Napier. Some time after that, the two couples emigrated to Eastern Cape, South Africa.
They had to contend with all that nature hurled at them, from torrential rain and hail storms to blazing heat and crop pests. Their nearest village and train station was Toise River about twenty-five miles away. Goods were fetched by ox wagon which took a full twelve hours for the round trip.
Births and deaths in the community were celebrated or mourned by all. When a neighbour died, the closest men turned out to lay out the body, put it into the coffin and hold the burial.
Black and white photograph of Tufthuill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Marion and Donald MacNeill from Hough at Tufthuill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Marion married Richard Brown in 1872 and her brother Donald married Mary Napier in 1877. Some after that both couples emigrated to South Africa.
2007.30.2
Black and white photograph of Neil and Mary Brown in South Africa.
L-R: Neil and Mary Brown, the children of Marion MacNeill from Hough; Robert Weir, husband of Marion`s sister Catherine McNeil; William Cawthorn, who later married Mary around 1905.
2006.69.1
MD recording of Stanley Cawthorn and Yvonne Flannegan from South Africa talking to Maggie Campbell in An Talla on 25/5/2006.
Stanley Cawthorn and Yvonne Flannegan from South Africa talk to Maggie Campbell during A’ Bhuain about their ancestors, some of whom were MacNeills from Tiree.
2006.32.2
Map of Zimbabwe.
Map of Zimbabwe at a scale of 1:1,100,000, with tourist information.
2006.32.3
Map of South Africa.
Map of South Africa at a scale of 1:1,750,000, with tourist information.
2006.25.2
Paperback book `Voices in the Sun` by Elspeth Jack, donated by the author.
The life and letters of Elsie Fraser Munn, the daughter of Rev. Allan Munn from Heanish.
Inscription written by the author inside reads ‘For An Iodhlann, Tiree, Elspeth Jack, May 2006’ and is also signed ‘Elspeth Jack 23/1/2006’.
2001.166.1
Annie MacLeod of Kilmoluaig at the Qua Iboe Mission Hospital in Nigeria in 1956
Photograph of Annie MacLeod of Kilmoluaig at the Qua Iboe Mission Hospital in Nigeria in 1956.
Courtesy of Mr Iain MacLeod
Annie MacLeod of Kilmoluaig trained as a nurse after World War II in Glasgow, and at the Edinburgh Faith Mission College. She worked briefly as a district nurse on Tiree in 1954 and 1955. Unable to drive, she had to be taken on her rounds by Donald Archie and Duncan Cameron from the Scarinish Hotel.
She then left for Africa to work at the Qua Iboe Mission Hospital in southern Nigeria. The hospital had one doctor and four RGNs from Britain, and a maternity ward. Anna eventually became the nurse in charge of its leprosy wards.
Brought home by family circumstances, she worked as a nurse at Kilmartin and on Skye. On one of her return visits to Tiree, she met and married the well-known missionary Kenneth MacRae who was working on the island at the time.
Black and white photograph of Anna MacLeod, Carrachan in Nigeria, 1956.
Anna MacLeod (Anna Charrachan) with some patients from the women`s ward at Qua Iboe (Kwa Eebo) Mission Hospital, Etinan, Nigeria in spring 1956. The hospital had one doctor and four RGNs from the UK and a maternity ward.
2001.166.2
Black and white photograph of Anna MacLeod, Carrachan in Nigeria, 1955.
The Girls Life Brigade in Nigeria in 1955 with Anna MacLeod (Anna Charrachan) on the left and her friend Margaret Bunting on the right.
