Dornoch Academy Photograph

Date Added: 24 April 2008 Year Range: 1948 - 1956 Institution Name: dnhhl Cat No: ◀ | 2005_072_017 | ▶ Picture No: 2520

Group photograph of Dornoch Academy with details, as far as known, of those shown. L _ R Back Row: Sandy Fraser David Shaw, John Sutherland, Donald Ross, Jim Matheson , Geroge Ross Middle Row: Violet Munro, Mina Menzies, Marie Ross, Catherine Mackay, Cecile Mackenzie, Frances Murray, Isobel Oakes, Bobbie McCulloch Front Row: Peter Macdonald, Roberrt Wickham, Catherine Mackay, Christine Cumming, Grace Jane Cumming, Sheena Sinclair, Marina Gunn, Elizabeth Mackay, Bertine Maclean, James Grant Willie Cumming

Dimensions: digital image

6 Comments

This photo must have been taken on the same day as the picture #909 and picture #991 as the window cords on the two outer windows are in the same position and also the reflections in the glass of the windows are similar. Catherine Mackay, Christine Cumming (nee Fraser) and Grace Jane Cumming were from Embo. James Grant (Jima),Willie Cumming (William Mackay Cumming)and Donald Ross were also from Embo. In later life Willie Cumming and Christina Fraser married and moved to Dornoch. James Grant studied and worked as an engineer in the Glasgow shipyards in the 1950s and later spent several years at sea as a ship's engineer sailing between the UK and Bombay, India. Sadly he died relatively young. Donald Ross was the son of the Embo Post Office Owner. Comment left on 04 May 2016 at 21:15 by Kenneth Mackay

Where is Marina Gunn {Cumming} living now? Comment left on 07 July 2020 at 19:57 by Kenneth Mcdonald Ross

Marina Gunn trained as a nurse at he Western General Hospital in Edinburgh from 1952 to 55, then at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness in 1956. She later married and possibly moved to Aberdeen.
Does anyone know were she lives now?
Comment left on 18 July 2020 at 13:35 by Kenneth Mcdonald Ross

Sadly Marina past way in the early 2000s and her ashes where scattered on her grandparents grave in Dornoch. She has two surviving sons in the Aberdeen area Comment left on 26 July 2020 at 20:50 by Harry duncan

Please thank Harry on my behalf. I very much appreciate his help.
Marina was part of the nursing staff in 1953 in Edinburgh who got me through six months of hospitalisation for TB. Unfortunately she has died at least 16 years before me -- such is the fortune of life.

Kenneth McDonald Ross Comment left on 28 July 2020 at 21:17 by Kenneth Mcdonald Ross

Yes Kenneth, Marina was a wonderful nurse - she helped bring myself and my sister into this world back in 1956 Comment left on 01 August 2020 at 11:23 by Harry duncan

Form Goes Here