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Ó mo dhùthaich, 's tu th'air m'aire! Nam biodh agam fhìn do stòras, Dà dheis aodaich, paidhir bhrògan, Agus m'fharadh bhith 'nam phòca, 'S ann air Uibhist dheanainn seòladh. O my country, I think of thee! If I had as much as two suits of clothes, A pair of shoes and my fare in my pocket I would sail for Uist. (From Moladh Uibhist - in Praise of Uist - an emigrant song composed by Allan MacPhee, who died at Loch Carnan, South Uist. Translation by Margaret Fay Shaw) |
Looking across the machair to Beinn Mór in March
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Bornish
(constructed 1837)
Mary (MacMillan) and John MacInnes 'Iain Pheadair', Daliburgh, 1979
John Angus Morrison at the Dark Island Hotel, Benbecula, 1989
Rachel with her parents, John and Ann (Bowie) Morrison,
at Kilphedar, c.1925
Uist Young Folks, 1930
Left to Right: Jeannie Morrison, John MacCormick*, Katie Morrison,
Hector MacCormick, John Morrison*, Jessie MacKinnon
( * students at Blairs College, Aberdeen)
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Rev. John MacCormick born South Boisdale 1911; Educated Blairs 1927-1932; St. Peter's 1932-1936; Ushaw 1936-1939; Ordained Ushaw 1939; Bornish 1939-1940; Dunoon 1940-1941; Eigg 1941-1946; Eriskay 1946-1951; Benbecula 1951-1956; Castlebay 1956-1966; Lochgilphead 1966-1969; Fort William 1969-1974. Retired following a stroke 1974. Died Glasgow 1980. |
Rev. Alexander Joseph Gillies, 1930
| Born Morar 1886. Educated Blairs 1902-1905; St. Peter's 1905-1908; Issy 1908-1912; St. Sulpice 1912-1913. Ordained Oban 1913. Professor Blairs 1913-1919; Northbay 1919-1923; Daliburgh 1923-1933; St. Raphael's Hospital in bad health 1933-1935; Kingussie 1935-1936. St. Raphael's 1936. Died Edinburgh 26 December 1936. |
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