Old photograph of small fishing boats in the harbour at Bowmore, Islay, Scotland. Islay is the fifth largest Scottish island and the seventh-largest island surrounding Great Britain.
Famous Scots from Islay include;
Alexander McDougall, born 1732, died June 9, 1786, who was an American seaman, merchant, a Sons of Liberty leader from New York City before and during the American Revolution, and a military leader during the Revolutionary War. He served as a major general in the Continental Army, and as a delegate to the Continental Congress. After the war, he was the president of the first bank in the state of New York and served a term in the New York State Senate. McDougall was born on the Isle of Islay, in the Inner Hebrides and was one of the five children of Ranald and Elizabeth McDougall. In 1738 the family emigrated to New York, America, as part of a party led by a Scottish Army veteran, Captain Lachlan Campbell.
The Reverend Dr. Donald Currie Caskie, born 22 May 1902, died 27 December 1983, who was a minister in the Church of Scotland, best known for his exploits in France during World War II, during which he helped an estimated 2,000 Allied sailors, soldiers and airmen to escape from occupied France, mainly through Spain. The son of a crofter, he was born in Bowmore and was educated at Bowmore School and then Dunoon Grammar School before studying arts and divinity at the University of Edinburgh. His first charge was at Gretna, before becoming the minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris in 1938.
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