Photocopied book extract `Emigration, Social Change and Economic Recovery: the Isle of Tiree, 1760-1890` by T. M. Devine.
The effects of the increase in population, fragmentation of croft holdings and the potato famine on Tiree.
Photocopied book extract `Emigration, Social Change and Economic Recovery: the Isle of Tiree, 1760-1890` by T. M. Devine.
The effects of the increase in population, fragmentation of croft holdings and the potato famine on Tiree.
Family tree and history of the descendants of Donald McDonald and Flora MacDonald, Kenovay.
Family tree of MacDonalds originating in Kenovay.
Photocopy of book `Argyll Estates Instructions` 1771-1805 edited by Eric Cregeen.
The instructions given by John, the 5th Duke of Argyll to his Chamberlain in Mull and Morvern and his Chamberlain in Tiree with an introduction by Eric Cregeen.
Available to read online here: National Library of Scotland
Booklet `The Changing Role of the House of Argyll in the Scottsih Highlands` by Eric Cregeen.
Assessment of the role of the house of Argyll in the Highlands between 1680 and 1806. Front cover inscribed `With best wishes, Eric Cregeen`.
Photocopy of typed pages about a set of bagpipes reputed to have been played on Culloden field.
Legend of the bagpipes reputedly played at Culloden,how they came into the possession of John Brown from Tiree whose ancestor, according to legend, learned to play the pipes by magic.
Photocopy of article in unknown Ottawa newspaper 14/6/1952 about the battle of Culloden.
History of the bagpipes reputed to have played at Culloden with a photograph of the pipes and of H. C Nolan, the present owner and grandson of John Brown from Tiree.
Newspaper article `The Quern-Dust Calendar – Her Heart`s Youthful Prize` by Ronald Black.
The story behind the song `Mo Run Geal Og`.
Photocopied bibliography `Tiree 1750-1920`
List of 21 books about Tiree giving author, title, place and year of publishing.
Photocopied family tree for the MacFadyens of Tiree and Lismore.
(1) Family tree of the descendants of John MacFadyen, Scarinish, and Janet Munn, married 10/2/1789. (2) List of deaths, births and marriages for the descendants of John MacFadyen, Scarinish, and Janet Munn.
Information and maps of the Hough area, 1768-1805
(1) Extract from `Inhabitants of the Argyll Estate, 1779`, ed. Eric Cregeen, 1963, p139 : Index of Places. (2) Partial map 1768-9 showing Hough area extracted from `Argyll Estate Instructions, 1771-1805` ed. Eric Cregeen, 1964. (3) Hough area from O/S map NL 94 NW.