Crayon Drawing of Margaret McLennan


Margaret McLennan, my husband's great great great grandmother. The one who lived to 98. This is a detail since the drawing is too big for the scanner.  She is wearing a black dress with some lace enhancement. There is a perception of these Scots: that they wore black and carried around Bibles: a somber lot. Maybe true, I mean life was hard, many had their homes burnt out from over them and were sent on a perilous journey to a 'primitive land.' But if you read these letters you will see that Margaret McLennan's  granddaughter Margaret, born 1854 was a woman who loved life; in fact, her granddaughters remember her as 'always happy'. Margaret's daughters, Edith, Marion and Flora,  were 'new women' of the era--suffragists who followed politics and and who also loved the fashion and clothes. Even though she is a McLennan, and not a McIver, Ross, or McLeod, I assume she is a Lewis Scot and spoke only Gaelic.