Tag Archives: emigration

2002.193.6

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.

1999.193.4

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).

v3.jpg

1999.193.5

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).

v4.jpg

1999.193.6

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.

v5.jpg