Group photograph of 'Herring Harvesters'

Date Added: 07 February 2018 Year: 1949 Institution Name: dnhhl Cat No: ◀ | 2017_035_48 | ▶ Picture No: 13643

Monochrome group photograph of' Herring Harvesters', including in the back row left to right: Jessie Ross, Bella Mackay, ? , Wilma Ross.

Dimensions: digital image

4 Comments

Jessie and Wilma Ross were the daughters of Isabella Ross (Bella aigh Paul) who was closely related to my paternal grandmother Isabella Mackay (Bella aigh Kenny Main). Bella Mackay (Bella aigh Chiney) was the daughter of my mother's (Mary Ann Mackay nee Cumming) first cousin Mary Ann Mackay (Mary Ann aigh Chiney), the daughter of Alexander Fraser, who was known in Embo as Chiney. If my memory is good I suspect that the lady on the extreme right of the back row is Isabella Ross (Bella aigh Paul), the mother of Wilma and Jessie. I knew all four of them in my childhood days in Embo and I know that they all followed the herring fishing fleet as herring gutters and packers in the herring harvest season.
Comment left on 07 February 2018 at 18:50 by Kenneth Mackay

Is this Tommy Mackay (Dunc) hugging his daughter Christina or Cathy on the left? Comment left on 14 June 2018 at 10:52 by John mackay

The lady first right is Bella Ross my late fathers aunt ~ Tommy Baugh Mackay. Comment left on 13 June 2019 at 20:13 by Tommy Mackay Thank you for the name confirmation. Administrator

Hello
I am a member of the Venray War Cementry Group and I am looking for a picture of
ROSS, John Mackay
Rank: Private
Number: 14564165
Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
Died: 20.11.44.
Age: 20
Parents: John and Jessie Grant Ross
Born: Sutherland
Home: Caithness
Job/Trade: N/K
Memorials: Listed on the Golspie War Memorial and the Strathy War Memorial, Farr
Is the picture showing in some way relatives from this soldier? And if yes can you provide us with a photo perhaps ? Lest we forget our liberating Heroes Kind regards Opa John Dircks - I am publishing this query in the hope that someone may be able to help you with this query. - Adminstrator Comment left on 22 November 2020 at 13:16 by John Dircks

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