Photocopied extract from letter from Catherine Muriel MacPhail.
Extract from letter (date unknown, probably pre-World War I) from Catherine Muriel MacPhail, describing a visit to Tiree. The Post Office mentioned in the letter was probably at Cornaigmore, as the family have a photograph of it.
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) around 1888.
Hugh Macdonald, born in 1850, the son of John MacDonald, a blacksmith at Balinoe, and his second wife, Flora Campbell. In 1853 Hugh emigrated to Australia with his parents, brother Hector and stepsister Catherine on board the S.S. Utopia. He trained as a school teacher and in 1881 married a widow Mary Grace Hamilton. The couple had thirteen children. Hugh died in 1927 of heart failure. The photograph was taken around 1888.
Black and white photograph of Mary Grace Hamilton, wife of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe.
Mary Grace Hamilton (née Cross) photographed around 1888. Mary Grace was the wife of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927), the son of John MacDonald, a blacksmith at Balinoe, and his second wife, Flora Campbell, who emigrated to Australia on board the S.S. Utopia in 1853.
Black and white photograph of Hugh Benjamin and Mary Catherine Dash, children of Catherine MacDonald from Balinoe.
Siblings Hugh Benjamin and Mary Catherine Dash, eldest children of Catherine MacDonald from Balinoe and her hisband Edward Dash. Both children died of acute illnesses a few years after this photo was taken around 1875.
Black and white photograph of Ebenezer Dash (1870-1927), son of Catherine MacDonald from Balinoe.
Ebenezer Dash (1870-1927), eldest surviving child of Catherine MacDonald from Balinoe and her husband Edward Dash. After his parents died in 1890-91 he became head of the family at the age of twenty-one, ‘father’ to his seven siblings aged from three to nineteen. He had outstanding career as a teacher, rising to the position of headmaster at early age. He married in 1895 and had four children. The photograph was taken around 1886.
Hugh MacDonald with his family around 1900
Photograph of Hugh MacDonald with his family around 1900.
Courtesy of Barbara Hall & Grace Boyd
Hugh MacDonald was born in 1850, the son of John MacDonald, a blacksmith at Balinoe, and his second wife Flora Campbell. In 1853 he emigrated to Australia with his parents, brother Hector and half-sister Catherine on board the S.S. ‘Utopia’.
Hugh trained as a school teacher and in 1881 married a widow Mary Grace Hamilton with a young son. The couple had thirteen children, twelve of whom survived to pose for this photograph. Hugh was described as ‘a tall imposing man’ and his wife as ‘a small woman always dressed in black’.
Like many other Scots emigrants of the time, Hugh was a very religious man. He was said to be ‘a stern disciplinarian in the true Scottish teaching tradition’ but with a sense of humour. He died in 1927 of heart failure.
Black and white photograph of the family of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe.
The family of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) around1900.
L-R: (back row) Mona, Hector, Dulcie, Keith, Flora Dash (niece of Hugh, daughter of Catherine MacDonald and Edward Dash), Hugh, Norman, (seated) Daisy, Kate, Hugh senior with Rex, Ruby, Mary Grace (Hugh’s wife), Mavis, Hugh’s stepson Gib Hamilton, (kneeling in front) Eric.
Black and white photograph of the daughters of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe.
The daughters of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe, photographed around 1910.
L-R: Daisy, Mona, Dulcie, Flora Mavis, Ruby, Kate.
Information about the family and descendents of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927)
Emailed information about the family and descendents of the daughters of Hugh MacDonald of Balinoe, who appear in photo J113, taken around 1870. Hugh and his parents and siblings emigrated to Australia in 1853.
Photograph of Catherine Dash née MacDonald (1844-1890), from Balinoe, around 1880.
Courtesy of Keith Dash & Doreen Griffin
Catherine MacDonald was born in Balinoe in 1844, the daughter of blacksmith John MacDonald and Flora MacPhail. Her mother died when she was young and her father remarried. In 1853 the family, now with two young sons Hugh and Hector, emigrated to Australia on the S.S. ‘Utopia’. They settled in the goldfields town of Ararat in central Victoria.
In 1866 Catherine married Edward Dash, an English immigrant then working as a clerk in the Victoria Treasury Department. She was twenty-one and he was a forty-seven years old widower with four sons aged fifteen to twenty-two. The couple had another eleven children.
Catherine was described by her children as ‘a gentle, serene woman’ with ‘healing hands’. In 1888 she was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and she died of this disease in 1890 aged forty-six. This photograph of her was taken around ten years before her death.
Black and white photograph of Edward Dash around 1886.
Edward Dash, husband of Catherine Macdonald from Balinoe, photographed around 1886.
