Historylinks
Ref: 2007_181_02 No: 3306 Contributor: Historylinks Year: 1925
Mrs Adam Cumming, Catherine and Kate Ann Mackay and Jessie Fraser
B/w laser photocopy of photo of three ladies and a small girl standing beside a wooden building (Embo Station). Two ladies on left are elderly and traditionally dressed, one has a creel on her back. The little girl is partly behind one of these. The younger woman on the right is her mother. Caption at top "My first picture in Scotland" and at bottom "Twa Auld Grannies At Embo Station". On reverse: " Left: Mrs Jessie Fraser, Gate Street. Centre: Mrs Adam Cumming (Granny of song). Right: Her daughter Mrs Catherine Mackay and daughter Kate Ann". Quality of copy is poor. On same sheet as 2007.181.03.
Picture added on 24 April 2008
This photo must have been taken in about 1925 and not 1940. Mrs Adam Cumming (nee Annie Mackay born 1855 died 6/8/1943)was my father's aunt and the Mrs Catherine Mackay (nee Catherine Cumming) his cousin who we knew in Embo as Kate aigh Adam - she was the daughter of Mrs Adam Cumming and the wife of "Bielsie" William Mackay. The little girl is Kate aigh Adam's daughter Kate Ann Mackay who later became Kate Ann Grant. She and her husband in about 1950 went to live in Boston USA with Adam Cumming's many sons and daughters there - one sister Maggie Cumming was the wife of the famous American singer/comedian Sandy MacFarlane who wrote "Grannies Heilan Hame".
Added by Kenneth Mackay now Empangeni born Embo 1939 on 25 March 2009
Bielsie is the nickname of my father's family who still reside in the area.
Added by Mackay on 06 January 2012
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