Photocopied list of monies paid to emigrants on the `Jamaica` in 1847.
List of monies paid by the Duke of Argyll to emigrants on the `Jamaica` bound for Montreal on 9th June 1847.
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Dates: 1840s
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Photocopied abstract of emigrants` accounts with Argyll Estates in June 1847.
Abstract of emigrants` accounts with Argyll Estates on 10th June 1847, giving township, name and amount.
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Photocopied list of emigrants from Tiree paying their own passage to Canada, dated June 1848.
List of emigrants from Tiree paying their own passage to Canada, dated June 1848, giving twonship, name, status and the amount they are to receive from Alexander Thompson, banker in Greenock.
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Photocopied list of disbursements made to emigrants from Tiree in June 1849.
Accounts of disbursements made to emigrants from Tiree in June 1849, giving township, name, number in family, status, amounts paid for stock, crops, implements and furniture and amounts paid as assistance.
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2004.139.3
Photocopied handwritten account of the Balephuil fishing disaster in 1856 by Alexander MacKinnon.
2004.117.1
Envelope addressed to Captain Heddle of the Skerryvore steamer
Photograph of an envelope addressed to Captain Heddle of the Skerryvore steamer and date-stamped 1841.
Courtesy of Mr Alistair Morrison
Captain James Heddle was the master of the paddle steamer Skerryvore built by Menzies and Sons of Leith for the purpose of towing lighters loaded with granite blocks and other materials from the harbour at Hynish to the Skerryvore rocks during the building of the lighthouse.
The 150 ton wooden steamer was fitted with two engines of 30 horse power each at a total cost of over £6,350. Initially reluctant to embark on such an expense, the Northern Lighthouse Board eventually agreed when a suitable vessel for purchase could not be found. £1616 was recouped from the sale of the steamer in 1847.
In his Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse Alan Stevenson highly commended Captain Heddle for ‘his unwearied exertion in the discharge of his harassing duty at Skerryvore’ which no doubt contributed to his sudden death in 1841 from tuberculosis of the lungs.
1999.292.3
Paperback book `Mull Family Names` by Jo Currie.
A guide to the surnames that were most common in Mull in the 19th century.
2000.209.1
Hardback book `Sir Donald MacLean` by James Cowan.
Biography of Sir Donald MacLean 1820 -1877.
2001.13.1
Extract from the `Quarterly Review` of 1849, pp 370-389.
Review of Alan Stevenson`s `Account of Skerryvore Lighthouse, with Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses` published in 1848.
2000.252.1
Hardback book `The Crofters` War` by I. M. M. MacPhail.
A detailed account of the period of political and social agitation in the Highlands and Islands that culminated in the passing of the 1886 Crofters Act.