Black & white studio portrait photograph of an unidentified clergyman in around 1900. Mounted on card by Whyte Studio of Inverness. Original photograph stored in filing cabinet 10, drawer 3.
2019.96.1
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Dates: 1850s
2019.44.1
Notes on Malcom McLaurin (1765-1834), Argyll Estates’ chamberlain on Tiree during 1801-1811, compiled by John Holliday and Catriona White in 2017. He was not well-liked.
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2019.13.1
Information about the MacFarlanes of Balinoe and Elgin, 1858-1876, including the (1) marriage certificate for Rev James MacFarlane, Balinoe, and Isabella Farquharson, Cornaig, on Tiree in 1858, (2) death certificate for Isabella MacFarlane in Elgin in 1865, (3) 1871 Elgin census record listing James MacFarlane, (4) death certificate for James MacFarlane, 1876. Includes additional family history information emailed by the donor.
Click here to view marriage certificate; death certificates for Isabella and James
After their marriage in 1858, the MacFarlanes moved to Elgin where James took up the position of Baptist Minister. When Isabella died, aged only 34 years, she left three children: Archibald (b. ca 1860), Margaret (b. ca 1861) and Mary. In the 1871 census, Mary is living in Oban with her mother’s sister, Eliza. It is presumed that Mary stayed with the Whytes in Oban and that she is the ‘other Mary’ referred to in Duncan MacGregor Whyte’s letters to his wife Mary Bernard when he was in Australia. The Whytes were artists who built The Studio in Balephuil.
2018.102.2
Copied article ‘Brothers in Mission: Alexander Farquharson of Cape Breton and Archibald Farquharson of Tiree’ by Dr Margaret MacKay, 2007, and published in the Records of the Scottish Church History Society. A history of two Gaelic-speaking brothers from Perthshire who became missionaries in islands at opposite sides of the Atlantic in the 1800s.
Printed from www.archive.org
2018.87.1
A4 print of a postcard titled ‘Tiree Ferry’ by D.R.M, showing passengers and cargo being transferred between the ferry and its tender off Scarinish Harbour in around 1900.
2018.81.2
Brass bed-warmer which would have been filled with heated stones.
2018.80.8
Rounded wooden core for weaving a ‘monkey’s fist’ – the rope ball at the end of a ship’s throwing line. Used by Vaul boat-builders.
2018.80.7
Collection of 27 brass sail eyelets of various sizes, threaded onto a rope. From the workshop of Vaul boat-builders.
2018.80.4
Ardennes-Corticule Belgian Blue whetstone from the workshop of the Vaul boat-builders.
2018.80.3
Sharpening stone in its wooden case used by Vaul boat-builders around 1850-1950.
