Family tree for the descendants of Charles Alfred MacKinnon with a covering letter from his grandson.
Family tree for the descendants of Charles Alfred MacKinnon, born 1838 in Ruaig and died 1926 in Australia.
1997.141.1
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Dates: 1840s
1997.144.1
Photocopied newspaper cutting about Captain Charles MacKinnon and transcription of the same.
Obituary for Captain Charles MacKinnon born in Ruaig in 1838 and died in Australia in 1926.
2002.135.2
Copy of family history of John and Flora MacEachern of Cornaigbeg.
Family history of John MacEachern (1801-1855) from Cornaigbeg and his wife Flora MacKinnon (1811-1897) who emigrated with their children to Australia on the `Brilliant` in 1837.
2002.135.7
Black and white photograph of John MacEachern and Flora MacKinnon.
John MacEachern (1801-1855), a blacksmith in Balephuil, and his wife Flora MacKinnon (1811-1897) emigrated to Australia in 1837 on board the Brilliant.
1997.106.1
Photocopy of obituary for Rev. Duncan MacFarlane, with transcript.
Obituary for the Rev. Duncan MacFarlane, Baptist minister in Tiree from 1879 until his death (?) in 1908.
1997.107.2
Photocopied newspaper article about the death of Rev. John MacFarlane.
Obituary for the Rev. John MacFarlane, Baptist minister on Tiree for over 30 years until 1879.
2002.125.19
Newspaper article about Louis Albert Necker of Geneva.
Article about Necker who was a student at Edinburgh University in the early 1800s and produced the first geological map of Scotland. He visited Tiree between 1806-8 while engaged in geological field work.
2002.93.1
Copy of letter with family history for Johann MacKinnon, Barrapol.
Letter containing extracts from 1841-1891 censuses showing descendants of Hugh MacKinnon and Mary MacFadyen of Balemartine.
1997.90.1
Photocopied extract from unknown publication titled `Tiree and Coll`, c. 1845.
The custom of drinking ardent spirits at funerals.
1999.11.2
Passenger list for the ‘Charlotte’ in 1849
Transcription of the passenger list for the ‘Charlotte’ bound for Montreal in 1849.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In 1849, 364 men, women and children left Tiree to emigrate to Canada, 339 of them on board the ‘Charlotte’, the remainder on the ‘Barlow’. Nearly three-quarters of them were landless cottar families. Over half were aged under eighteen.
After three years of blighted potato crops, conditions on the island were appalling. The implementation of the ‘destitution test’ in the previous year meant that no-one was eligible for relief unless all their means were exhausted. All able-bodied persons were excluded.
Argyll Estate papers show a fall of 1795 in the population of Tiree between 1841 and 1849, of which some 950 can be accounted for through emigration. The rest presumably left to find employment on the mainland.