Black and white photograph of the grandchildren of Lachlan and Catherine MacFadyen of Salum.
The grandchildren of Lachlan and Catherine MacFadyen of Salum, photographed in Lindsay, Ontario in 1921. Lachlan and Catherine were married in Tiree on 2nd February 1831 and emigrated to Canada shortly afterwards. They settled in Brock Township, Ontario where they had eight children.
L-R: (standing) Hector Allan (1869-1950), Lachlan Martin (1871-1959), Annie Belle (1873-1948), Catherine Jane (1877-1944), George Charles (1878-1961), Neil Malcolm (1880-1928), Millie Hannah (1882-1952), Linnie Hughena (1884-1930), (front) their mother Melinda Gilson (1846-1831), widow of Lachlan and Catherine’s son Hugh.
Black and white photograph of Rev. Allan Munn copied from the book `Voices in the sun` by Elspeth Jack.
Rev Allan Munn was born in Heanish in 1867, the son of Hugh Munn and his wife Ann MacKinnon. Allan left Tiree for Glasgow University and was ordained in 1897 into the United Free Church. His first parish was in Inverness. In 1911 he spent several months at the Scottish Church of Algiers and in 1913 he moved with his wife and seven children to take charge of a church in Germiston in the Transvaal. Eleven years later he moved to the Presbyterian church in Bulawayo, now in Zimbabwe.
Black and white photograph of Senator Donald Cameron.
Senator Donald Cameron was born in 1901 and spent his early days in Hong Kong, where his father, who came from Mull, worked in the naval dockyards. His mother was Marion MacFadyen from Croish in Caolas. In 1906 the family emigrated to Canada and bought a farm of 320 acres near Innisfail, Alberta. Donald won a scholarship to study Agriculture at the University of Alberta. He went onto become a lecturer in the Department and founded the Banff School of Fine Arts. After years as its Director, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1955.
Colour photograph of the descendants of John MacLean and Christina MacDonald from Caoles.
The descendants of John MacLean and his wife Christina MacDonald who emigrated to Canada from Caolas with their seven children in 1878 and settled in the district of Cadurcis in Manitoba.
Colour photograph of the emigrants` stone at Druimbhuidhe.
The Emigrants’ Stone at Druimbhuidhe on the road between Heylipol and Cornaig, photographed by John Holliday in 2006. The day before emigrating, Iain Mòr Mairi Lachainn and Dòmhnall Mòr, both from Cornaig, were walking home after receiving their passage from Island House. One of them said to the other, “Well, we’ll be away from here and we’ll soon be forgotten.” And the other one said, “Let’s do something that they’ll remember us by,” so they rolled the boulder over on its side.
Biography of Donald Ewen MacDonald (1925-2002) of Heanish by his son Dr John MacDonald.
Biography with photograph of Donald (Jock) Ewen MacDonald (1925-2002) of Heanish by his son Dr John MacDonald. He was a sailor in the Merchant Navy and eventually settled in Australia where he married, raised a family and worked for over twenty years with ICI.
Copied birth certificate and photograph of Alexander Campbell MacLean of Kilmoulaig.
Birth certificate for Alexander Campbell MacLean of Kilmoulaig, born 20th August 1878 with attached photograph, used for a job application and stamped by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Toronto.
Black and white photograph of Alexander Campbell MacLean of Kilmoluaig.
Alexander Campbell MacLean who was born at Druimbhuidhe in Kilmoluaig on 20th August 1878, the son of Hugh MacLean and his wife Mary MacLean. He had two sisters, Flora and Catherine, and one brother Hugh Alexander. He married Marion Kelly in 1905. The couple emigrated to the States in 1906 but eventually settled in Canada, where Alexander was employed as an assistant manager at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Toronto.
Colour photo of Sir Harry Gibbs, a descendant of Tiree emigrants.
Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Sir Harry Gibbs (2nd man from right at table) at his cousin`s 80th birthday celebrations. Sir Harry`s great-grandparents were Ann Campbell, who was born in Tiree, and Donald Rankin MacDonald, a doctor and magistrate in New South Wales.
E-mail from donor with information about the antecedents of Sir Harry Gibbs.
The antecedents of former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Sir Harry Gibbs who was descended from Duncan Campbell and his wife Ellen MacCall (MacColl?).
