Individual record
First name: John
Surname: Cameron
Maiden name:
Sloinneadh/nickname: Camaranach
Date of death: 06/07/40
Place of death: Ardubh
Age: 64
Year of death: 1940
Date of burial:
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Gravestone inscription: Erected to the memory
of
John Cameron
Ardue
who died 6th. July 1940, aged 64 years
His wife Bella Gordon
who died 29th Dec. 1962 aged 88 years
Their son
Alexander Cameron
who died 7th Sept. 1999 aged 93 years
Home address: Ardubh
Township: Ardubh
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Date of birth:
Biography: He had a share in the ‘Màiri Bhàn Òg’ with ‘Ain Dungain (John MacDonald), roughly around 1905 after his marriage. Fisherman on the ‘Isa Wood’. John Cameron was born in Duirinish – his father (Donald Cameron) was from Ardneaskan and his mother (Elizabeth MacRae) was from Cuaig. He was working for Donaldson at the salmon fishing – in the winter time, they took ice from a loch in the hills and stored it in caves at Uags, the ice being used to keep the salmon fresh in the summer. He was also at the kippering with Spring, a kippering company, in Kyle of Lochalsh. He was a slaughterman in Stornoway, and also killed the cattle for locals in Applecross, receiving a piece of the meat as payment. He was also a shepherd on the banks of the Yellow River, Montana, in around 1909. As a young man, he worked on Laggan Locks, part of the Caledonian Canal. One day, the lock gates wouldn’t open – an eel’s tail was around six feet over the top of the lock gate and it’s head jammed underneath!
Reference number: 297
Interment number: 151
Graveyard section: 3
Lair number: 54
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