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Chris Lawson – International Women’s Day #IWD2025
On this International Women’s Day, we remember Chris Lawson, Bill’s late wife and business partner, behind the success of the incredible Hebrides People genealogical resource. Originally from Point, on the Isle of Lewis, Chris trained as a nurse and midwife before returning to the island to care for her mother. Chris was always interested in…
A Look Back on Grimshader (part 2)
with Torquil MacRae Fishing When I was older we would go fishing for haddock with the little boat. My uncle had a big boat, with four oars in her, and we would go out with four at the oars and another steering. I was so young then – only about fourteen. There was an old…
A Look Back on Grimshader (part 1)
with Torquil MacRae Early Day’s I began my life on this very croft. I was born on 21st July 1923, and there was no minister here at that time. It was in 1924 that Malcolm MacIver came, and it was Rose who was here in 1923, so I was more than a year old before…
A Look Back on Tolsta (part 3)
with Jessie MacLeod (widow of Roderick MacIver) Our family My husband was from Tolastadh. He was sailing with the New Zealand Shipping Company. He was away for long trips. Our daughter was born in March and her father didn’t see her again until November. I’m sorry to say that soon after he left, he was…
A Look Back on Tolsta (part 2)
with Jessie MacLeod (widow of Roderick MacIver) Fishing The people here had their own boats, going out with small-lines, but they had boats in Stornoway too. My father had a boat, the Dove and one called Clan MacLeod, and there used to be boys from Point working as cooks on them – galley-boys – Angus…
A Look Back on Tolsta (part 1)
with Jessie MacLeod (widow of Roderick MacIver) Schooldays We had two teachers – Mary Jane Smith from Holm and Maggie Mary MacLeod. The headmaster was from Uig, Mr MacLean. We had a teacher from Point too – she was married to Allan Cameron. They didn’t speak Gaelic to us, and we had no English going…
