Lists of Tiree mariners from 1862 to 1893
List of names of Tiree mariners, their ages, home address, position, date of voyage and previous ship, between 1862 and 1893.
2009.60.1
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Dates: 1860s
2009.29.7
Photograph of Dan Campbell, Gott, ca. 1930
Sepia photograph of Dan Campbell, son of Mary MacKinnon and Donald Campbell, Gott, aged about 40. (copied loan)
2008.51.1
Black and white photograph of Archie MacKinnon and his wife Christena Clark. John was the son of Fingon MacKinnon and Christena McLean of Salum, Tiree and was baptized 23 Nov 1832. The whole family (including John’s six younger brothers) left Tiree aboard the Conrad in September 1851. Christena Clark was the daughter of Hugh Clark and Christena McLean of Ruaig, Tiree. She was baptized 10 Jun 1833. The whole family came to Ontario about 1846, settling first in Brock Township. Christena and John were married in Ontario about 1857. They had eight children, but only one married and there were no grandchildren. John died 5 Feb 1919 and Christena died 24 Aug 1918. They are buried in Tiverton Cemetery.
2008.46.1
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg.
Lachlan MacCallum was born in Cornaigbeg in 1823. He emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903. In 1854 he married Priscilla Thewlis, an American of English descent, and the 1881 cenus for Sherbrooke, Monck County in Ontario records six children to the marriage. He was a hero at the defense of Fort Erie during the Fenian Raids of 1866.
2008.46.2
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg, a native of Tiree and member of the Canadian Senate.
Lachlan emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903.
2007.129.1
Paperback book `The best man who ever served the crown?` by Ray Fargher.
The life of Sir Donald MacLean of Kilmoluaig and New Zealand.
2007.115.1.1
Two death certificates from New South Wales, Australia, for Catherine and John Lamont, 1903-7
Death certificates for Catherine Baker nee Lamont (1819-1820), dated 1903, and for John Lamont, born in Tiree in 1844, the son of Hector and Catherine Lamont, dated 1907.
2007.93.1
Police report on the theft of peats
Transcription of a police report on the theft of peats from the Tiree peat moss in the Ross of Mull in 1860.
Courtesy of Argyll & Bute Archives
In 1801 the 5th Duke of Argyll instructed his chamberlain of Tiree: ‘No peats to be allowed to crofters from the mosses in the island, which are nearly exhausted, but coals must be imported…They can be allowed to take peats from Ross in Mull if they chuse.’
In the previous century the people of Tiree had frequently resorted to the peat mosses in the Ross of Mull for their fuel, a practice that continued, some say, until the beginning of the 20th century. The men and boys would sail over to the Ross in the spring to cut and stack the peats, returning later in the year to ferry the dried peats back to Tiree.
In 1860 Effy MacKinnon of Ardtun appeared before Sheriff Robertson in Tobermory charged with stealing peats belonging to Gilbert MacDonald of Balemartine. She was found guilty and sentenced to six days imprisonment.
2007.25.9
Information about the family and descendents of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927)
Emailed information about the family and descendents of the daughters of Hugh MacDonald of Balinoe, who appear in photo J113, taken around 1870. Hugh and his parents and siblings emigrated to Australia in 1853.
2006.114.1
Newspaper cutting about Captain MacKinnon and the `Taeping`.
Newspaper cutting about Captain MacKinnon of the `Taeping` who was admitted to hospital.