Newspaper extract about Donald `the Pilot` MacLean (b. 1727)
Printed email with transcription of an old newspaper article about the author`s (C. Hope Johnston, Belfast) ancestral links with Donald MacLean `The Pilot` of Ruaig (b.1727), who in 1746, piloted the boat that rescued Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Bound family history for Lamont, McDonald, McKinnon and McMillan by Barry McDonald, USA
Printed and bound document tracing the Tiree ancestry of Barry McDonald of South Carolina, USA. His ancestors include Lamonts, MacDonalds, MacKinnons, and MacMillans.
Audio recording of Prof. Emeritus Donald E Meek, Caoles, in 2010
Audio recording on minidisc of Donald Meek talking about MacBraynes vessels and ferries to an audience at An Talla on 12/07/10.
Audio recording of Duncan Grant and Alasdair Sinclair in 2008
Audio recording on minidisk of Duncan Grant, Ruaig, and Alasdair Sinclair, Brock, talking about the role of women in the old days. Recorded by Iona Brown at An Iodhlann on 30/06/08. Poor quality.
Booklet “An T-Aiseag an Iar” by Donald Meek 1977
Booklet about the history of the ferries of the Western Isles by Prof. Donald Eachann Meek, Caoles. In Gaelic (with some passages in English).
Extract from death register and information about Captain John Lamont, Ruaig (1804-1866)
Copy of the death register for Master Shipbuilder Captain John Lamont (Iain na Hongs), Ruaig, from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, and information about his family and activities in Hong Kong in the mid 1800s in an email from Kathleen Kennedy to John Holliday in Sept. 2011.
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Copy of a report proposing State Medical Services for the poor, 1850
Bound printed transcript from the website of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh of the report of Dr Morrice McRae presenting the case for State medical services for the poor people of the Highlands and Islands in 1850.
Extract from the births register for John MacArthur, Heylipol, 1845
Faxed copy of an extract from the Register of Births and Baptisms for John MacArthur born 29th Aug. 1845, son of John MacArthur, Hillipoll, and his wife Flora Sinclair. Extracted 2nd Aug. 1924; faxed 9th Feb. 2000.
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English translation of `Land Agitation in Tiree in 1886` by Donald Meek
Photocopy of a printed draft English translation of Prof. Donald Meek`s composition `Land Agitation in Tiree in 1886` about the crofters` war, with handwritten comments. Possibly translated by Alasdair Sinclair, Brock.
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Collection of photographs of the MacFadyen familes of Scarinish and Middleton, 1800-1950
Photocopies of 26 black & white photographs featuring and relating to the MacFadyen familes of Scarinish and Middleton, 1800-1950, particularly the descendants of Allan MacFadyen (1800-1891) and his wife Amelia Stewart (1812-1891). Information about an additional 34 scanned photographs relating to the same family (see P173-P199).
