Dates: 1800s

2009.123.4

Appendix C: Report by Duncan Forbes of Culloden to Duke of Argyll 1737, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”

Printout of Appendix C: Report by Duncan Forbes of Culloden to Duke of Argyll 1737, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. Report to the Duke of Argyll concerning Duncan Forbes` visit to mainland Argyll and its islands, the tenants, crofters and tacksmen that he met and their attitude to taxes etc.

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2009.123.5

Appendix D: Prisoners of the `45, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”

Printout of Appendix D: Prisoners of the `45, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. List of rebels from Tiree imprisoned during the 1745 rebellion. Lists names, prison held in, discharge date, and comments.

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Appendix E: Gross sales from Tiree farms 1793-1794, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”

Printout of Appendix E: Gross sales from Tiree farms 1793-1794, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. List of the gross sales from the different farms in Tiree according to the average of the past two years (1793-1794). Lists no. of tenants, mail-lands, name of farm, gross sales, rent paid/due, and total revenue from sales per product type.

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Appendix G: Tiree Household and Population, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”

Printout of Appendix G: Tiree Household and Population, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. List of the number of households and population size on Tiree by year from 1747 to 1891.

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Appendix H: Evidence to the Napier Commission, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”

Printout of Appendix H: Evidence to the Napier Commission, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. Report by Edward Charles Stanford to the Napier Commission regarding the profitability of the kelp industry on Tiree around 1870.

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Appendix I: Witnesses before the Napier Commission, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”

Printout of Appendix I: Witnesses before the Napier Commission, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. List of the names, ages, occupations and townships of the Tiree witnesses that stood before the Napier Commission in 1883.

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Appendix J: Locations, households and populations by census year, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”

Printout of Appendix J: Locations, households and populations by census year, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. List of numbers of households and population sizes in each township by census year from 1779 to 1891.

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2009.121.1

Email about Tiree MacFadyens and MacLeans that settled in Regina, Canada in 1885

Email from Barry Beesley to An Iodhlann dated 14/10/2004, about his grandmother Christina MacFadyen, Salum, who emmigrated to Regina, Canada with her parents Donald MacFadyen and Mary MacLean, her uncle Neil MacFadyen and his wife Effie MacLean, and her father`s cousin Donald MacFadyen and wife Flora MacLean. Mary, Flora and Effie were sisters from Cornaigbeg. Includes their genealogies and an account of their lives in Canada.

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2009.120.1

Email message about the family of Margaret Russell, Canada, whose great-great-grandparents were crofters on Tiree

Email message (23/10/2004) to An Iodhlann from Margaret Russell, Canada, about her great-great-grandparents Archibald McPhaiden and Mary Gillies, crofters at Balemartine and Balinoe. Includes extensive details of the family`s and descendents lives from moving to Glasgow and then to Canada in 1921.