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`)
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).
Photocopied webpages about MacKinnon clan history.
History of the Clan MacKinnon and information about the descendants of John and Ann MacKinnon of Crossapol, married in 1820..
Webpage printout of the descendants of Neil MacKinnon.
Family tree for the descendants of Neil MacKinnon and Flora MacDonald who were married in Tiree on 29/5/1787.
Paperback book `Old Skye tales` by William MacKenzie.
William Mackenzie (1851-1935) records local legends, folklore and superstition, the changes he saw in agriculture, education, the Church and emigration and recounts the history of Skye`s leading families and also the lives and experiences of crofters for whose rights he actively campaigned in the 1880s.
Black and white photograph of gravestone in Headlock North Cemetery, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
Gravestone in Havelock North Cemetery, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand for Alexander MacLean, born in Tiree on 30/5/1860 and died in New Zealand on 1/3/1931, his wife Catherine (1866-1913) and their son Alexander John MacLean (1894-1894).
Black and white photograph of gravestone in Headlock North Cemetery, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
Gravestone in Havelock North Cemetery, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand for Charles MacLean, born in Tiree and died in New Zealand on 11/12/1899, his wife Marion MacNeill, born in Tiree on 23/1/1865 and died in New Zealand on 1/9/1952, Lucy Jessie MacNeill, born in Tiree on 27/11/1883 and died in New Zealand on 21/9/1927, and the Rev. Alexander Charles (1898-1967).
Black and white photograph of gravestone in Headlock North Cemetery, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
Gravestone in Havelock North Cemetery, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand for Alexander Campbell, born on Tiree in 1851 and died in New Zealand on 22/11/1912, and his wife Anabella, born on Tiree in 1858 and died in New Zealand in 1953.
Paperback book `We`re Indians sure enough` by Michael Newton.
Scottish Gaelic poetry composed in the USA.
Transcript of documents found in the Ontario Archives in 1958.
A number of accounts of families who settled in Ontario in the 19th century.
