Sheena wrote: "My mother-in- law told me in the early 1960's, a story of how his gr gr gr grandfather had married twice and every Sunday walked to the church on one side of the Island of Tiree with his wife and many children, then walked to the other end of the Island to worship in a different church with the other children. I have always had this picture in my mind." In the 1700s and 1800s, second (or third) marriages for men were not uncommon in Tiree, or more generally in the world, because of the death of women in or after childbith and consequently the father's need to find a way to care for his infant and young children. In the Scottish highlands & islands, poverty and its associated diseases, such as cholera and typhus, contributed to maternal and infant deaths. Life was pretty grim, and for men, battling to feed their families, there was no time to be a SNAG. My great-great-grandfather, John MacDonald, blacksmith and crofter of Balinoe, was typical. He had two families - two children by his first wife, Flora MacPhail, and nine children by his second wife, Flora Campbell. Flora MacPhail died in Tiree after the birth of her 2nd child, and Flora Campbell married in Tiree and died in Australia after the birth of her 9th child. Keith Dash Sydney, Australia