Month: April 2014
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Clan Sutherland Societies
Links to Clan Sutherland Societies in various parts of the world: Clan Sutherland Society in Scotland Clan Sutherland Society in Australia Clan Sutherland Society of North America Australian Scottish Heritage
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Death on the Moors
Halliday Sutherland died on 19th April 1960. The following excerpt from Arches of the Years tells the story of the death of his father. “At Christmas 1912 I went on holiday from London to the Highlands. My father had a house in Tain, a town which lies between red moors and blue inland sea. He also…
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The White Plague
The “white plague” and “consumption” were colloquial names for tuberculosis. And plague it was, causing around ten percent of deaths in Britain between 1850 and 1950. Dr Sutherland described working with consumptive patients in the early years of the 20th Century in his book, The Arches of the Years. In the extract below, he tells the story of William James.…