{"id":6389,"date":"2023-07-12T10:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T10:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/?page_id=6389"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:14:16","slug":"all-emigrant-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/stories\/emigrant-stories\/all-emigrant-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgeulachdan Eilthirich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-query eplus-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-15626 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-bills-stories category-emigrant-stories category-news category-stories tag-emigration tag-history tag-north-uist tag-stories\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/discover-the-legends-of-the-outer-hebrides-stowaway\/\" target=\"_self\" >Discover the Legends of the Outer Hebrides: Stowaway<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Step into the heart of the Hebrides with our adaptations from Bill Lawson\u2019s History and Legend Series\u2014where every week we bring you a fresh tale of adventure, resilience, and island spirit. Discover the stories that shaped a community!<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/discover-the-legends-of-the-outer-hebrides-stowaway\/\">Tuilleadh<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-contrast-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-contrast-background-color has-background eplus-wrapper\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-6331 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-emigrant-stories tag-st-kilda\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/ewen-gillies\/\" target=\"_self\" >Ewen Gillies<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">St Kilda My name is Ewen Gillies \u2013 and if you asked me where I am from, I would find it difficult to answer! I was born on Hiort \u2013 the Island of St. Kilda, but I am now in Vancouver \u2013 and I have been in most of the world in between times. My<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/ewen-gillies\/\">Tuilleadh<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-contrast-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-contrast-background-color has-background eplus-wrapper\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-6329 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-emigrant-stories tag-harris\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/rachel-martin\/\" target=\"_self\" >Rachel Martin<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Scadabay to Cape Breton My name is Raonaid a\u2019 Bhreabadair, and you can tell from my name that my father was a weaver. Now that they are starting to keep records in the English language, they are calling us Martins, and as for my own name \u2013 sometimes they are making it Rachel or Ronalda<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/rachel-martin\/\">Tuilleadh<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-contrast-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-contrast-background-color has-background eplus-wrapper\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-6327 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-emigrant-stories tag-harris\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/donald-morrison\/\" target=\"_self\" >Donald Morrison<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Pabbay to Cape North I am Donald Morrison, and I was born in Baile na Cille, on the Isle of Pabbay in the Sound of Harris \u2013 and you will easily find the ruins of my father\u2019s house, for there is a well just at the corner of the house \u2013 Tobar Fhionnlaidh \u2013 and<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/donald-morrison\/\">Tuilleadh<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-contrast-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-contrast-background-color has-background eplus-wrapper\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-6325 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-emigrant-stories tag-harris\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/caitriona-aonghais-ruaraidh\/\" target=\"_self\" >Caitriona Aonghais Ruaraidh<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Horgabost to Australia They say that if you once leave home it doesn\u2019t matter how far you go \u2013 and that surely must apply to me, for I am right on the opposite side of the world from where I was born in Cuidinish. I am Catriona Aonghais Ruairidh, and my people came originally from<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/caitriona-aonghais-ruaraidh\/\">Tuilleadh<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-contrast-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-contrast-background-color has-background eplus-wrapper\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-6323 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-emigrant-stories tag-harris\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/margaret-mackinnon\/\" target=\"_self\" >Margaret MacKinnon<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Seilebost to Manitoba My name is Margaret MacKinnon \u2013 Mairead Phannaidh \u2013 and my father\u2019s name, Panny, is short for Bannatyne, for my great grandfather\u2019s father was called after Lord Bannatyne, whose family had the farm at Luskentyre at one time \u2013 and they say that he got a golden guinea as a christening present<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/margaret-mackinnon\/\">Tuilleadh<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-contrast-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-contrast-background-color has-background eplus-wrapper\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-6321 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-emigrant-stories tag-harris\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/john-macleod\/\" target=\"_self\" >John MacLeod<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Teilisnish to North Carolina My name is John MacLeod \u2013 Iain mac Mhurchaidh \u2018ic Dhomhnaill Bh\u00e0in (John son of Murdo son of Fair-haired Donald) \u2013 and I was born in the village of Teilisnish, in the deer forest of North Harris. My father and my uncles were foresters \u2013 gamekeepers you would call them today<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/john-macleod\/\">Tuilleadh<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-contrast-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-contrast-background-color has-background eplus-wrapper\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-6319 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-emigrant-stories tag-scalpay\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/donald-mackay\/\" target=\"_self\" >Donald MacKay<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Kyles Scalpay to Georgian Bay My name is Donald MacKay \u2013 Domhnall Choinnich Buachaille (Donald son of Kenneth the Herdsman) \u2013 and I was brought up in Kyles Scalpay, where my father\u2019s brother had a croft. 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