Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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Miavaig; taken 29 December 2009, 9am. The bay at Miavaig is frozen, as are all the smaller sealochs, including Little Loch Roag, which doesn't happen often.
There is a story of crossing Little Loch Roag on foot, however. James Macnaughton, born 1804 and the son of ...
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
Further to the previous item about WJ Maclean of Gisla, who was a Chief Trader with the Hudson's Bay Company: an account of the one Christmas he and his family spent at Fort Pitt before it was burned to the ground in April 1885. This is from an article by ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
We've mentioned before the story of William "Big Bear" Maclean, who was born in Scaliscro in 1837 and, after his family moved to Gisla, went on to an eventful career with the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. His HBC record has recently come to light (thanks to Donald Macaulay, Stornoway) ...
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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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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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Duncan Macdonald's croft at Gisla. Thanks to Hugh Henderson.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
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Duncan Macdonald, Gisla, was the postman on the Kinlochresort route and his daily walk took him four miles over the moors to the remote village. One day in 1959, he noticed that a loch was missing: the water was simply gone. Much debate ensued over the reason for this but ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
This account of the gathering of the sheep into the Gisla fank for the clipping was written by David Henderson and first published in the Scots Magazine in August 1995. These large-scale community gatherings are now, sadly, a thing of the past. There are more pictures in the gallery, and ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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A great collection of photographs from Hugh and Sheila Henderson.
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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Donald Macdonald, Dolly Doctor, was born in 1891 in Stornoway, eldest son of John Macdonald Carishader and Annie Gillies, Shawbost and Stornoway. He studied at the Nicolson and at Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and practiced as a specialist in the west end of London. He married Emily Paul, niece of Lord ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
From left, Emily Macdonald Gisla, Effie Maclennan 36 Cliff, and two visitors, visiting a shieling.
From Emily's Twenty Years of Hebridean Memories (1939) - observing from Gisla Lodge the girls going to the shielings at Airigh an Fhorsa and Bo Nighean Mhuirich. The ones Emily mentioned visiting near Loch Coirgeabhat may ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
The wedding of Annie Macdonald 11 Geshader and Donald Macdonald, Kirkibost and Gisla, at Ceann Langabhat.
Kate and John (Lion) Macdonald, 11 Geshader
Effie And John Macdonald, Gisla
Donald and Annie
Nora and Catherine, the bride's sisters
Cairistiona, their niece
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
A chapter (abridged) by Annis Heawood from Uig: A Hebridean Parish (1960). Photo by Chris Murray.
The district here described includes Gisla, near the head of Little Loch Roag, Enaclete, Ungeshader and Geshader, on the western shores of Loch Roag proper. All these are strung out on or close to the main ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
From Emily Macdonald's Twenty Years of Hebridean Memories (1939). Emily and her husband Dolly Doctor owned Uig Lodge but it was permanently let to tenants.
On our next two holidays in Lewis, we managed to get rooms in Uig for a few days' visit to the part of the Island we loved so ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Valtos men at Gisla, returning from the shielings (both Airigh an Fhorsa NB117226 and Airigh Bo Nighean Mhuirich NB 105224 - thanks Calum) with creels of butter, crowdie and cheese. Murdo Smith 30 Valtos (Murchadh Gobha), Calum Buchanan 7 Valtos (Calum a'Bhodaich), Donald Mackay 15 Valtos (Dòmhnall a'Chreagain) and Norman Buchanan ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
by Emily Macdonald, niece of Lord Leverhulme and wife of Dolly Doctor. Written in 1939 and privately published in 1965.
An account of holidays in Lewis, marriage to Dolly Doctor, owning Uig Lodge and building Gisla Lodge, and general reminiscences 1918-1938.
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