I was
looking at my Montgomery ancestry in Leurbost, Lochs, and discovered
I had a 1st cousin, 3x removed, called Ann Nicolson from 7 Gravir
who married John Morrison from 4 Airidhbhruaich.
John Morrison was, according to this information on the excellent Hebridean Connections site, a joiner employed by Sir Samuel Scott at Amhuinnsuidhe Castle before retiring to East Tarbert to the house he built there which is called “Burnbrae”
The
couple appear to have begun their married life living with John's
father, a 66 year old tailor from Harris who was also called John, at 4 Airidhbhruaich.
The 1881 census return includes another son, Donald
(24) who was also a joiner, and two daughters, Chirsty (24) and
Marion (16). The household was completed by two grandsons, William
McDonald (7) and Roderick McLennan (3). John Morrison was 26 and his
wife Ann was 24.
By 1891
the couple were living in North Harris with their three children, Katie Ann
(7), Kenneth (5) and Ellen (2).
1901
finds them still there but now with a family of five: Katie Ann (17),
Kenneth (15) and Helen (12), having been joined by Johann (8) and Chirsty Bella (6).
As an
aside, a couple of years earlier Sir Samuel Scott's wife had caused a
'Society Sensation'
in the upper echelons of English 'society', but I prefer
to remember Sir Samuel as the person had the Carding Mill built at
Lon na Feille, the old market stance, in Direcleit in 1900 – I
wonder which joiner did the carpentry work there!?
Some more detail of the history of the castle can be read on Celtic Castles, and on my Harris Timeline.
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