The Gamekeeper’s Family
by sarah • 29 March 2009 • Archive photos, Sporting Estates • 0 Comments
New to us, a fine collection of pictures from the family of Roderick Mackenzie Sr, gamekeeper at Uig Lodge.
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Posts Tagged ‘africa’
William Dearg’s Medals
by sarah • 28 March 2009 • Emigration, History, Military & Police, WWI, WWII • 0 Comments
[singlepic=597,326] William Matheson (Uilleam Dearg) was born to 2 Geshader in 1877, the youngest son of William Ruadh. As a young man he went off, presumably to join the Seaforths, though his family heard nothing of him until he turned up in a picture of a company in Egypt or the Sudan, about 1898. He [...]
Read more →The Death of Hector Maclean
by sarah • 18 March 2009 • Military & Police, People • 0 Comments
Hector Maclean, who wrote to his sister Annie (Nurse Ruadh) from the Transvaal in 1902, died of enteric fever five months later. From the Highland News (?), 1903: Sad Death of a Young Man. Information has been received at Crowlista, Uig, from Heidleberg, South Africa, of the death from enteric fever of Hector Maclean, a [...]
Read more →Hector’s Letter, 1902
by sarah • 7 October 2008 • History, Military & Police • 0 Comments
See also the transcript.
Read more →Letter from Hector Maclean in the Transvaal, 1902
by sarah • 7 October 2008 • Emigration, History, Military & Police • 1 Comment
A letter from Hector Maclean of Crowlista, serving in the Transvaal, South Africa, to his sister Annie in Glasgow in 1902. Hector died in South Africa early in 1903 of fever – more of which shortly. SAC Station Draaifontein 278 20.9.02 My dear sister, Received your welcome Letter, glad to see you were well and [...]
Read more →Farquhar Mackay, Mangersta, in Letters
by sarah • 17 August 2008 • Emigration, History, People, Weather • 0 Comments
Stornoway Gazette, 30 March 1951 Sir: As the Parish of Uig is never mentioned in your paper, I feel worried that the place may have been washed away by Atlantic storms. Or is it that as the most progressive parish in Lewis, they now publish their own newspaper? If so, please let me have their [...]
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