Township: balephetrish

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2005.37.1

Four postcard sized prints of watercolour paintings by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.

Four postcard sized prints of watercolour paintings by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959 – on holiday at Balephetrish in 1928; looking NE from Balephetrish Hill towards Rhum, Muck and Skye; looking SW along Balephetrish Bay; rocks at Balephetrish.

2000.27.2

Black and white photograph of John MacKinnon and Catherine MacNeill on their wedding day in the 1920s.

John MacKinnon of Kilmoluaig (1885-1962) and Catherine MacNeill of Main Road Farm, Balephuil (1888-1953) on their wedding day in Glasgow around 1925. John was the son of Hector MacKinnon and his wife Mary Lamont. As an ex-service man in the Merchant Navy during World War I, he was allocated the croft at 34 Balephetrish where he and his wife built their home. They had no family. Both are buried in Soroby.

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2004.166.1

Colour photograph of the family of Dr Alasdair MacKinnon in Sheffield.

MacKinnon Road in Kiveton Park, near Sheffield, named after GP Dr Alastair MacKinnon (Alasdair Iain ’ic Lachainn), the brother-in-law of Mary Flora MacKinnon, Hillcrest, Balephetrish. L-R: Dr MacKinnon’s widow Mary, and children Jane and Iain.

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