Dates: 1850s

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2021.54.23

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Transcript of a police report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal charging Flora McPhail or Shediack of Breach of the Peace in May 1859. McPhail (Earnal) is charged with cursing, threatening and abusing Archibald McKinnon (cotter, Earnal). Statements are provided by Archibald McKinnon and Flora Carmichael (aged 12 years, daughter of Procurator Fiscal Archibald Carmichael, Earnal).

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

 

2021.54.22

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Transcript of a police report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal charging Anne McInnes with the crime of theft, in July 1859. McInnes (Manal) admits to taking white worsted stockings belonging to Catherine Currie from the bleaching green at Moss.

Statements are provided by Archibald Currie (crofter, Moss) and Catherine Currie (sister of Archibald Currie, Moss).

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

 

2021.54.21

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Transcript of a police report accusing Lachlan McInnes of assault in October 1859. McInnes (seaman, Arinagour, Island of Coll) is accused of assaulting Archibald McNeil (mason, Breachacha, Island of Coll) at Beg Field near Fouterailt [?] Isle of Coll. The report is submitted by Finlay Fraser, police constable in Tiree. Statements are provided from:

Archibald McNeil (mason, Breachacha)
Neil Galbreath (mason from Campbeltown, residing at Breachacha)
John Kennedy (foreman, Breachacha)
Robert Laird (gardener, Breachacha)
John McPherson (son of Peter McPherson [Innkeeper], Arinagour parish, Coll)

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

 

2021.54.20

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Transcript of a report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal regarding an assault in Achadaphail farm, Ardtun, on the Isle of Mull in September 1859. Peggy or Margaret Morrison is accused of attacking Mary Campbell with a pair of iron tongs and using profane and ‘unbecoming’ language against her.

Statements are provided from:

Mary Campbell (servant to and residing with Donald McGillvray at Auchadafail farm, originally from Gortendonald in Tiree)
Julian McFadyen or McGillvray (wife of Donald McGillvray, drover and crofter, Acadaphail farm, Ardtun)
John Macfarlane (Police Constable, Bunessan)
Allan Cameron (Sergeant of Police, Tobermory)
John McNab (Doctor, Bunessan)
Peggy or Margaret Morrison (Achadaphail farm, Ardtun)

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.54.19

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Transcript of a Police Report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal by Finlay Fraser, (Detective Constable) regarding the sudden death of Archibald McDonald at Heanish in August 1859. McDonald, died near ‘Reef Cottage’ while walking home from Heanish with his son, Lachlan McDonald.

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.54.18

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Transcript of Inventory of Precognition against John McMillan and Donald MacPhail on charges of Housebreaking and Theft at the house of Niel Kennedy at Balevullin in December 1859. £10 was stolen from Kennedy’s house during the burglary.

Statements are provided by:

Henry Nisbet (Tobermory Procurator Fiscal)
John MacMillan (fisherman, Balevullin)
Niel Kennedy (fisherman, Balevullin)
Donald Cameron (boatman, Kilmoluaig)
Niel Kennedy (police constable, Balevullin)
John Kennedy (Balevullin)
Donald McPhail (fisherman, Kilmoluaig)
Mary Maclean or McKinnon (wife of Donald McKinnon, Balevullin)
Marion Cameron or McMillan (wife of John McMillan, Balevullin)
Catherine Maclean (sister of Mary Maclean, Scarinish)
Archibald McMillan (son of John McMillan, Balevullin)
Peter Macdonald (teacher, Balevullin)
Donald Lamont (cottar, Balevullin)
Flora McLean or McMillan (wife of Niel McMillan, Balevullin)
Archibald Cameron (fisherman, Balevullin)
Donald Maclean (tenant, Scarinish)
Finlay Fraser (police constable, Scarinish)
Dugald MacCallum (Kilmoluaig)
Allan Cameron (sergeant of police, Tobermory)

Many of the statements were originally given in Gaelic but are transcribed in English. William Robertson, Esquire Sheriff Substitute of Argyllshire, writes that John McMillan’s statement was given in the Gaelic language and translated into English by the Judge Examiner, and then read back to the defendant in Gaelic.

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2021.54.16

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Transcript of the Precognition of Witnesses regarding the sudden death of Helen Paterson or MacQuarrie (Arinagour, Coll) in May 1859. MacQuarrie died following a day planting potatoes and moving sea-ware. Statements are provided by:

Margaret MacQuarrie or MacFadyen (daughter of deceased, Arinagour, Coll)
Catherine MacKinnon or Macphail (widow, Arinagour, Coll)
Christina MacKinnon or MacQuarie (daughter in law of deceased, wife of Hector MacQuarie, Arinagour, Coll)
Malcolm Macdonald (merchant, Arinagour, Coll)
Duncan McColl (surgeon, Salen, Mull)

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.54.15

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Transcript of a report submitted to Henry Nisbet, Tobermory Procurator Fiscal, regarding the murder of Jean MacDonald or Seaton by her husband Hector MacDonald in Kirkapol in 1857. Statements are provided by Archibald Brown (crofter, Balephuil), William McLeod [?, Registrar] and Lachlan MacQuarie (Island House).

The beginning of the statement by the Medical Examiner is missing.

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.54.14

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Transcript of a report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal charging Donald McKenzie (Coll) with assault in March 1857. McKenzie is accused of assaulting John Murdoch (Captain of the yacht Davor), after leaving the Inn at Arinagour, Coll. Statements are provided by John McPherson (residing with Peter McPherson, Coll Inn) and Lachlan Johnston (ground officer, Coll).

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.54.13

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Transcript of a letter sent to Henry Nisbet, Tobermory Procurator Fiscal, from William Wilson (Registrar, Tiree) dated 11 March 1857. Wilson writes to report the deaths of three Tiree men – Lachlan MacDonald (crofter, Caolas), John MacDonald (farm servant, Caolas) and Hector MacDonald (fisherman, Caolas) – when a fishing skiff capsized two miles off the south coast of Coll on 3 March 1857.

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

 

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