Individual record
First name: Murdo
Surname: MacRae
Maiden name:
Sloinneadh/nickname: Mortie Ali
Date of death: 03/07/52
Place of death:
Age: 84
Year of death: 1952
Date of burial:
Date of funeral: July 5, 1952
Gravestone inscription: Erected to the memory
of
Murdo MacRae
Boatbuilder
who died 3rd July 1952,aged 84 years
also his wife
Mary MacBeath
who died 14th September 1979 aged 93 years.
Home address: Milltown
Township: Milltown
Originally from: Milltown
Date of birth:
Biography: Boat builder and carpenter. Mortie Ali used to make coffins, he built boats, and was also the ferryman taking the rowing boat out to the Stornoway mail steamer – in the era of the ‘Sheila’ and the ‘Loch Ness’. He was married twice: his first wife was a niece of the Gordons from Toscaig (the Dols and the Dac). Her mother was the Gordons’ sister. Her maiden surname was MacKay, and she had a brother Alec MacKay in Plockton. Mortie Ali had two sons (Roddy – Ruairidh Mhortie Ali) and Ali (Ali Mhortie Ali) who lived in the Dumfries area. Mortie Ali had two sisters, both married in Ardneaskan, Lochcarron: Flora was married to Murdo MacKenzie (Murchadh Dhòmhnaill, whose sons had the ‘Clan MacKenzie’and the ‘Caberfeidh’; and Johan, married to Finlay MacRae (Fionnlagh Buidhe), whose son had the ‘Johan’.
Reference number: 190
Interment number: 280
Graveyard section: 2
Lair number: 66
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