`In Memoriam` card for Mary MacKennon Campbell.
`In Memoriam` card for Mary MacKennon Campbell, daughter of John and Flora Campbell, who died aged 18 months in 1896.
1998.33.1
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Township: cornaigbeg
2003.17.1
Brass weight for use with weighing scales.
2 ounce brass weight for use with weighing scales (stamped with 2 oz) from the shop that was once at Corrairigh in Cornaigbeg.
1999.117.49
Black and white photograph of Donald MacLean, Ardbeg.
Donald MacLean (Donald Ardbeg) with his Auntie Ceite`s pet lamb.
1999.117.60
Black and white photograph of the Whitehouse MacLeans in the 1920s.
Haymaking at Whitehouse, Cornaigbeg in the 1920s. L-R: Alex MacLean, his father Donald MacLean and his brothers, Archie, Donald and Tom.
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`)
1999.117.61
Black and white photograph of Hector MacLean, Ardbeg, with his wife and daughter.
Hector MacLean, Ardbeg, with his wife Peggy MacLean from Kenovay and their daughter Flora in Tayvallich where he went as a Ground Officer.
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).
1999.117.23
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacLean of Cornaigbeg.
Lachlan MacLean of Cornaigbeg who married Euphemia MacFadyen of Caoles in 1867 and emigrated to Canada in 1879 with their three surviving children, Christina (11), John (5) and Mary (3).
1999.117.24
The stackyard at Whitehouse
Photograph of Donald MacLean with his sons Donald and Tom in the stackyard at Whitehouse.
Courtesy of Mr Reg Knapman
Donald MacLean and his sons, Donald on the right and Tom on the left, are finishing off a ‘mulan’ (corn stack) at Whitehouse. Once the stack was about seven feet high, a small eave or ‘calpa’ was made by putting two layers of sheaves back to back.
The stack was thatched with ‘sealasdair’ (iris) or ‘cuilc’ (reeds) or very occasionally hay. The point or ‘toman’ was often finished off with a cockscomb of bound iris or a small sheaf whose seed had been neatly removed. This was called ‘am boideanan’.
When the ‘mulan’ was finished, it was weighted down by three heavy ropes and stones for a few days to allow it to settle. Then ‘sìoman ruadh’ (sisal rope) was criss-crossed over the top and weighted with six stones.
Black and white photograph of Donald MacLean and his sons at Whitehouse.
Donald MacLean, with his sons Donald on the right and Tom on the left, building stacks at Whitehouse.