Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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Many thanks to Donald J Macleod of Enaclete and Bridge of Don for his research into the fishing boats of Uig. He adds that these boats used lines and not trawls to catch white fish. It was the end of March and beginning of April that was known as the ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
The following was written by Maggie Smith for Hebridean Connections. The genealogies of all the known inhabitants of the island of Vuia - uninhabited since 1841 - can be found here.
Life on the island of Vuia Mhòr was hard, with little fertile land and no safe anchorage. The peats were ...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Stornoway Gazette, 21 Jan 1944
The pressmen get their snaps - Lewisfolk provide a little colour
American press photographers visited the vicinity of St Pauls on Hogmanay to pick up a few colourful pictures of New Year celebrations in London.
A group of Lewisfolk gave them their best 'shots' of the evening when ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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Lochcroistean School, c1928. Teachers Annie Macaulay 35 Cliff and Donald Macarthur, Carloway.
Back Row:1. Angus Hugh Smith, 2 Carishader
2. Angus John Macdonald, 6 Carishader
3. Donald Macritchie, 4 Enaclete
4. Donald John Mackay, 6 Geshader
5. Malcolm John Smith, 2 Ungeshader
6. Donald Smith, 2 Ungeshader
7. Donald Gillies, 9 Carishader
8. John M Macdonald, 6 Enaclete
9. ...
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
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Place names in Enaclete and the surrounding area, mapped by Finlay and Kenny Maciver. They did Geshader too and you may like to compare the Ordnance Survey map.
1. Airigh Dhubh
23. Caol Loch
2. Loch Croistean
24. Druim Mor
3. Loch a' Phealair Beag
25. Loch nan Learg a Tuath
4. Old Sheilings
26. Cnoc a' ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
New pictures for our collection; thanks to Mary Macleod, Lochcroistean.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Marianne hosted a lovely evening for about forty past pupils of Lochcroistean school, and their spouses, on the 130th anniversary of the opening of the school.
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If the slideshow isn't working for you, the pictures are also in the Gallery.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
From Islands Postal History Series, No 3: Lewis, by James A Mackay. Published by the author, 1978.
Miavaig
The Gaelic name Miabhaig is derived from an earlier Norse name whose vik ending signified a bay - in this case one of the many inlets of West Loch Roag on the west coast ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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Ciorstaidh Mhòr, Christina Matheson, was born in 1861 in Enaclete, a daughter of William Ruadh and a sister of William Dearg. Her father came with his family to Geshader in the late 19th century and built this house at 2 Geshader, on the hillside overlooking the loch on the right ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
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Teachers Donald Macarthur (Soup) and Annie Macaulay 35 Cliff (Anna Bheag)
Back Row 1. Peter Macleod 9 Enaclete
2. Farquhar Macdonald 12 Carishader
3. Angus Hugh Smith 2 Carishader
4. Donald Macritchie 4 Enaclete
5. Calum Iain Smith 2B Ungeshader
6. Donald Gilleis 9 Carishader
7. John Murdo Mackay 1 Carishader
8. John MAcdonald 6 Enaclete
2nd Row 9. ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
From Sanais, 1988, with some additions.
The first school in the Western Isles was founded shortly after 1610, when the Seaforth Mackenzies gained possession of the island, and in 1680, a report by 'Indweller' says that the Seaforth school had done much good, not only for Lewis but also for the ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
A series of articles on the Old Soldiers of Uig appeared in the Comann Eachdraidh Uig publication, Sanais, in the 1980s, from which this is an extract.
John Munro, Iain Mac a' Mhinisteir, was the only son of the Rev Hugh Munro, minister at Bailenacille for fifty years; a son of ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Many thanks once again to Robin Forrest for providing these wonderful, and previously unknown to us, pictures of Uig in 1964-65, taken by his father Sam Forrest on Land Court business. Some things have changed... some have not!
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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This may be one of the Bernera shielings, just off the main road near Scaliscro road end; the girls, so far unidentified, would therefore be from Bernera. The fellow with the cream is John Macleod 5 Enaclete, and the other is Angus Mackay, Aonghas 'an Uisdean, 1 Carishader, who used ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
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