Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

**BoldHighlander** · 30th April 10, 08:05 PM

Eamon Bulfin

Eunan McGinley

caption:

"The illustration (below) shows Pearse's school St Enda's with the boys in kilts.
The man overseeing the drill, Con Colbert, was one of those executed in 1916 with Willy Pearse another leading kilt wearer.
None of the pupils attending the school in 1916 took part in the Rising..."

**BoldHighlander** · 30th April 10, 08:05 PM

**Ryan Ross** · 1st May 10, 11:21 AM

Family portrait, c.1910.

Sir Walter Markham Ross, my great-great grandfather, seated at left. Stuart Walter Markham Ross, my great grandfather, standing at right.

**BoldHighlander** · 2nd May 10, 11:47 PM

**BoldHighlander** · 2nd May 10, 11:48 PM

**BoldHighlander** · 2nd May 10, 11:53 PM

Catherine (Kate) McKinnon, Archibald McKinnon's* older sister, lived to the age of 107.
Although born in Australia, like the rest of her family her native language was Scots Gaelic,
and she did not begin to learn English until she went to school - in later years she would recall her first day
of school when she didn't understand a word her fellow students or teachers were saying.

She married Harry Conn in 1919, was widowed in 1951, and outlived all of her younger siblings.
Her birthdays were a sort of annual pilgrimage when family members would celebrate and gather
together at her son's home in Horsham until her death in June 1991.
She was laid to rest with Harry, and next to her parents, at Charlton Cemetery.

*Archibald McKinnon was posted earlier in this thread.