List of Tiree-related archival items, 2012
Printed compiled list of archival items using `Tiree` as the search term from an unknown source. The list includes items from several different archives and may have been created from the CommunityArchives.org website.
Book “Fonn – The Campbells of Greepe”, 2013
Large hardback book about the music, family trees and land of the Campells of Greepe on the Isle of Skye, 1700s – 2011. Signed by Kenna Campbell, Wilma Kennedy, Seumas Campbell, Maggie MacDonald and ??
Roll of graduates of Glasgow University including Donald MacFarlane, Tiree, in 1891
List of students graduating from the University of Glasgow between Dec. 31 1797 and Dec 31st 1897. Includes Donald Neil MacFarlane M.B., C.M. of Tiree (1868-1895), Ship Surgeon.
Photocopy from book `Highland Clearances` by Alexander MacKenzie, 1883
Photocopied extract from a book about the Highland clearances in Argyllshire in the 1800s, with an introduction by Ian MacPherson, MP.
Click here to view 2013.73.3
List of SSPCK teachers on Tiree and Coll, 1709-1872
Photocopy of a paper by A.S. Cowper listing all the schoomasters of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge between 1709 and 1872. Published in the Scottish Record Society`s journal in 1997. Accompanied by a 2-page summary of the records pertaining to Tiree and Coll only. Many of the early schools were Church funded.
Information about storms that ravaged the islands around 750 AD
Photocopied pages from `Origines Parachiales Scotiae, 1854` about a storm that ravaged Iona in 744 AD with the loss of any lives, and handwritten notes by Jim Hill, Coll, suggesting that the storm must have done equal if not more damage on the other islands. In the oral tradition of Coll the island was once divided into three by a great storm.
Printed text and a family tree for the Barr family of Balephetrish in the 1800s, including Thomas Barr of Balephetrish Farm.
Click here to view 2013.67.1
Information about the Clark family of Tiree 1650-1976
Full version of `Tiree Heritage` by Donald Angus Clark (DAC) 1993 (see 2001.176.1), including family trees and a handrawn map of Tiree.
A history of Edward Curtis Standford on Tiree
Print-out of a talk about the history of chemist Edward Stanford and the kelp industry on Tiree in the late 1800s, presented at the 2013 Feis, plus accompanying lists, documents, papers, letters etc relevant to Stanford and seaweed processing industry in Scotland and Tiree.
Booklet “Islands Postal History Series No.9” by James A MacKay
Booklet about the history of postal services to the islands of Mull, Iona, Coll and Tiree during 1786 to 1974. (second copy held in archive 2000.124.1)
