Rachel Johnson was eight years old when archipelago 40 miles west of Outer Hebrides was evacuated in 1930

The last surviving former resident of the archipelago of St Kilda, the most remote part of the British Isles, has died.

Rachel Johnson was eight years old when she left the islands in 1930 with her family and other islanders. The last 36 St Kilda inhabitants were evacuated at their own request as life there had become untenable.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rachel Johnson (third from right) with other former residents in the 1980s, back on St Kilda for the 50th anniversary of its evacuation. Photograph: John Wilkie/National Trust/PA

Johnson was born in July 1922 on St Kilda, about 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides off Scotland’s north-west coast. After leaving she settled in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, where she married and was latterly in a care home.

The National Trust for Scotland, which has looked after the archipelago since 1957, said Johnson’s death this week at 93 marked the end of an era.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest St Kilda, the remotest part of the British Isles. Photograph: RCAHMS/PA

Alexander Bennett, the organisation’s general manager for countryside and islands north, said: “I was privileged enough to have met Rachel on a number of occasions. She was intensely private but extremely kindly.

“On behalf of the National Trust for Scotland and all who care for St Kilda, we offer our condolences to her family and many friends. It is a sad day and truly the end of an era to learn that the last of the native St Kildans has passed away.”