Collection of photocopied photographs, newspaper cuttings and articles about members of the MacPhail family of Clachan, Cornaigmore, 1910-2015, including Captain Lachlan MacPhail. Includes photograph Z120. Other named individuals: Katie McWalters, Gillander sisters, Jimmy McEwen, Mollie Barrow (nee MacLean), Alasdair Campbell, Mary MacLean, Sheila MacLean, Susie and Malcolm MacLean, Katie McEwen, Iain MacLean, Anne McEwen, Marion MacInnes (nee MacLean), Rose McWalters, Jim McWalters, Flora MacLean, Mollie McKenzie-Pollock (nee Barrow), Annie McWalters, John MacPhail, Isabella MacLean, Ann MacPhail, Donald MacLean, Marion MacPhail – Druimbhuidhe, Baroness Ray Michie, Ishbel MacLean Clark.
Photograph of a painting of a sailing ship found in Rhum View, Vaul, and presumably belonging to Catriona MacKinnon who once lived there. Paintings like these were often painted by members of the crew and the sails signed by all in the crew (but not in this case). It is assumed that the painter or a crew member was linked to Rhum View.
The photograph includes notes made by Angus MacLean, Scarinish, in 1994, on the types of masts and sails, and an annotated sketch of the ship giving the names of the various sails.
Softback book ‘Tiree and the Dukes of Argyll 1674-1922’ by James Petre, 2019. A concise history of one island during arguably the most dramatic period in Scottish history. A story of change and controversy. At its core are ducal policy, burgeoning population growth, destitution and emigration, followed by government intervention and land settlement.
Two handwritten letters dated 13th & 15th April 1906, sent by Elizabeth Ross to her mother, on the occasion of the family relocating from Edinburgh to Tiree, where her father, John Ross (1846-1925), was taking up the position of schoolmaster at Cornaigmore. The letters are written on the shipping company’s headed paper, and provide an insight into the logistics of moving to Tiree at that time.
Printed information about the John Miller Matthew Geekie and Annie (Campbell) Geekie family in Manitoba, Canada, compiled by Charles A Muir, Ottawa, 2017. Peter J,, John Neil, and Charles S. were born in Tiree in 1871-73.
Hardback book ‘The Small Regiment, Vol. 1 – Origins of the Clan MacKinnon, 100BCE-1621CE’ by G McKinnon and E E McKinnon. The origins of the Clan MacKinnon and the influences that shaped its history within the context of Hebridean and Scottish history, to 1621. Clan MacKinnon Publishing, Canada, 2017.
Printed email correspondence between John Holliday and Sheena Peckham (2019) regarding further information about the Hendersons of Earnal, and the location of their house near Gott on Tiree.
Printed scan of a page from the Electoral Register for Tiree for 1931, showing the donor’s relatives Quinten Henderson and Mrs Marianne Henderson living at Ernal [Taigh Henderson, Eirneal, Gott].
Quintin McGill Henderson was born in Glasgow 1862. He worked as an electrical engineer. He retired around 1927 was last on the electoral roll for his home in Glasgow in 1928-29. In summer of 1929 he is recorded as living at Ernal, Scarinish, Isle of Tyree. Quintin died on 7 April 1934 at his daughter’s home in Glasgow. His second wife was Mary Ann Grant Callan, born in 1875 in Glasgow. She died in 1933 (information from his granddaughter Sheena Peckham).
Stoneware bottle made by R. White, London (regd). It would have been stoppered with a cork.
Robert & Mary White started selling ginger beer in 1845 from their home in Camberwell. By 1869, they had five factories. The company was taken over by Whitbread in the 1960s, and by Britvic in 1986. The bottles could be returned: “R White’s ginger beer goes off pop, a penny on the bottle when you take it to the shop“. Stealing the bottles and making drinks to sell in another manufacturer’s name was a common offence – hence the ‘regd’ mark.
Clear, greenish, glass bottle for aerated water or ginger beer, made by Finlay McDiarmid & Co., Glasgow, who produced bottles from the 1870s to the 1910s.
