Photocopied newspaper cutting about the death of Mr John MacFadyen.
Obituary for John MacFadyen born 2/10/1833 in Tiree who went to Australia 1858-9 and worked as a miner.
1998.66.3
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2003.33.1
On board ‘Jessie Munn’
Transcription of a diary written aboard the emigrant ship ‘Jessie Munn’ in 1861-2.
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Courtesy of Mrs Nan Elliott
This account of a three-month journey to Australia in 1861 was written on board the emigrant ship ‘Jessie Munn’ by an unknown young woman. Her reasons for emigrating are not given but it seems from a letter at the end of the diary that she hoped to better her standard of living.
What is certain is that she had a brave and adventurous spirit to travel 15,000 thousand miles, unaccompanied by friend or family, through some of the roughest seas in the world wholly dependant on the skills of the captain and crew and the sea-worthiness of a small sailing ship.
Indeed, she was fortunate in her choice of the ‘Jessie Munn’. The Australian Board of Health inspector commended the cleanliness of the ship and, unlike many other voyages of the time to the Antipodes, there was no disease or deaths among the passengers.
2003.31.1
Black and white photograph of Donald and Sarah Black in 1895.
Donald Black(1854-1937) and his wife Sarah Brown both from Balephuil, photographed in 1895 when Donald was appointed Justice of the Peace for Assinboia Territory in the Canadian North West Territories.
2003.31.2
Black and white photograph of Donald and Sarah Black in 1934.
Donald Black(1854-1937) and his wife Sarah Brown both from Balephuil, photographed in 1934 in Saskatoon, Canada on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary.
1998.44.3
Township history for Cornaigbeg researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about prominent people in Cornaigbeg – Rev Archibald Farquharson, Charles MacGregor Whyte, the MacLeans, MacEacherns, MacCallums and Campbells.
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1998.44.4
Township history for Gott and Earnal researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about prominent families in Gott and Earnal – MacLeans, MacKinnons, MacIntyres and MacDonalds.
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1998.44.6
Township history for Soay, Brock, Ruaig and Salum researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about Soay and about prominent families in Brock, Ruaig and Salum – the MacKinnons/Sinclairs, Lamonts, MacLeans, MacLeods and MacInneses.
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1999.117.20
Black and white photograph of Ann and John Kennedy with their grandmother Euphemia MacLean.
L-R: Ann and John Kennedy with their grandmother Euphemia MacLean(1839-1929) and an unknown couple and boy. Euphemia was married to Lachlan MacLean of Cornaigbeg and emigrated to Canada with her family in 1879. (Ann married Wellington Mortson and is grandmother to Marjorie Skulmoski who wrote the family history `Our roots are in Tiree`)
1999.117.21
Christina Kennedy née MacLean and her children
Photograph of Christina Kennedy née MacLean and her children in the early 20th century.
Courtesy of Mr Reg Knapman
Crofter Lachlan MacLean of Cornaigbeg and Euphemia MacFadyen of Caoles were married in 1867. The couple had five children: Christina born in 1868, Hugh in 1870, Flora in 1871, Mary in 1873 and John in 1874.
Hugh and Flora died within their first years of life and in 1879 the family emigrated to Canada. The eldest daughter Christina married Alex Kennedy in 1886 and had nine children. In this photograph taken around 1910, she is shown surrounded by eight of them.
The children are: in the back row Hugh (b. 1895), Marybel (b. 1888), Lachie (b. 1886) and Effie (b. 1891); in the middle Ann (b. 1889) and Flora (year of birth unknown); and at the front Jessie (b. 1904) and Jack (b. 1900).
Black and white photograph of Christina Kennedy nee Maclean and her family.
Christina Kennedy nee MacLean and her family. Christina, the eldest child of Lachlan and Euphemia MacLean of Cornaigbeg, was born in Tiree in 1868 and emigrated with her family to Canada in 1879. She married Alex Kennedy in 1886 and had nine children. L-R: (back row) Hugh (b. 1895), Marybel (b. 1888), Lachie (b. 1886), Effie (b. 1891); (middle row) Ann (b. 1889), Christina herself, Flora (DOB unknown); (front row) Jessie (b. 1904) and Jack (b. 1900).
1999.117.22
Black and white photograph of Euphemia MacLean nee MacFadyen.
Euphemia MacFadyen, born in Caoles in 1841 and died in Canada in 1929. She married Lachlan MacLean (see photograph D65) in 1867 and lived in Cornaigbeg until 1879 when they emigrated to Canada with their three surviving children, Christina (11), John (5) and Mary (3).
