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From: "Jim Lochridge" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Gaelic
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 08:16:20 +0100


Hello Elizabeth,
They would have the gaelic at that time. The lucky ones who went to school
would have been taught English. My mother who was born in Glasgow in 1913
remembers being in the company of her father's aunt, Elizabeth Keith who was
born in Islay in the 1830s, and although she had come to the Glasgow area
about 1870, still spoke Gaelic. The incident she relates is of her great
aunt having a conversation with a certain Phamie Graham from Islay, and her
great aunt saying that they must speak English in front of my mother
otherwise she would not understand.
Phamie was houskeeper on my mother's maternal uncle's farm, and she
eventually married Dugald Smith, a policeman in Glasgow. When they married
my mother was the bridesmaid at their wedding. They went back then to live
in Islay, but had no children. I put all that in just in case anyone can
connect to them.

Hope this answers your question
-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Reid <>
To: <>
Date: 14 October 2001 06:13
Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Gaelic


>Hi list,
>Would my family have spoken gaelic in the 1850's on Islay or would they
have
>been speaking 'English'?
>Elizabeth.
>
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