Sunday, March 29th, 2009
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New to us, a fine collection of pictures from the family of Roderick Mackenzie Sr, gamekeeper at Uig Lodge. These were sent by Heather Maher, granddaughter of Roderick's son Donald, who married Jessie Macrae of Glenelg and emigrated to South Africa. Above is Roderick Jr with Donald's children on holiday ...
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
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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 ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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 ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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 ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
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 ...
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Stornoway, UNITED KINGDOM