Digitised copy of Accounts for the rents of Tiree and the two ends of Coll for 1749-1809, without 1779, 1804 and 1806. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Tiree mermaid – sworn statement of the discovery of a sea creature on the shore on Tiree, by Collin McNiven before James Maxwell, Justice of the Peace, 1813.
The statement (given by Colin MacNiven, tacksman of Grianal [Greenhill]) contains a detailed description of the discovery and appearance of the mermaid. MacNiven states that the mermaid was discovered eighteen years prior.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of an Account of oak logs that came onshore at Tiree, Jan 1797. Contains a tabulated form recording the number, length, square dimensions and solid measure of the logs. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of Account of kelp made on the island of Tiree, 1792. Contains an account of kelp made out of bose and black wreck, with a list of tons produced per area. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of List of inhabitants of Tiree, 1792. A tabulated form records the number of inhabitants per farm by: males; females; under 10 years; from 10 to 20 years; 20 to 50 years; 50 to 70 years; 70 to 80 years; 80 to 90 years; 90 to 100 years; above 100; total. The rest of the census records the names and ages of inhabitants in each occupied dwelling in the island.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of State of Tiree augmentations, 1791. Contains a table showing the ‘State [of] Augmentation arising from Farms Set in Tiry Whitsunday 1791’. The table contains the details of augmentation, old rent and new rent for Hector McLean at Hynish and Mannel, as well as interest paid on a sum laid out on the Minister’s Farm. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Digitised copy of a Report by Mr Raspe to the Argyll Marble Company at Edinburgh (Icolmkill [Iona] Marble Inspection), 1790. There is no transcript for this item.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
List of men born in Coll and Tiree who served in the army during the Napoleonic Wars, 1750-1850. Transcribed by John C McLean and Linda Temple from records held at the National Archives, Kew.
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Copied article ‘Brothers in Mission: Alexander Farquharson of Cape Breton and Archibald Farquharson of Tiree’ by Dr Margaret MacKay, 2007, and published in the Records of the Scottish Church History Society. A history of two Gaelic-speaking brothers from Perthshire who became missionaries in islands at opposite sides of the Atlantic in the 1800s.
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Unbound first draft of ‘The creation of the crofting townships in Tiree’ by Eric Cregeen, 1973, plus a letter from Eric’s wife Lily Cregeen to Dr John Holliday in 2015. The paper was later edited to half its length and published in the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies in 2015.
