Hardback book `Adventurers & Exiles` by Marjory Harper.
Comprehensive account of the `Great Exodus` in the century before WWI when two million men women and children left Scotland for a new life overseas.
2004.13.3
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Dates: 1880s
2001.16.5
Family Group Record for Martin MacPhaiden (1802-1855), his wife Janet Currie and their seven children.
Family Group Record for Martin MacPhaiden (1802-1855), his wife Janet Currie (1803-1860) and their seven children: Donald (b. 1824), Mary (b. 1827), John (b. 1829), Catharene (b. 1831), Niel (b. 1833), George (b. 1840) and Archibald (b. 1844). George emigrated to New Zealand prior to his marriage in 1877.
2001.16.2
Transcript of a letter dated 8/1/1880 from former Registrar Malcolm Livingston to George McFadyen.
Transcript of a letter dated 8/1/1880 from former Registrar for Tiree Malcolm Livingston to George McFadyen of New Zealand about a copy of George`s birth certificate also news of his relatives on Tiree and a storm in December that caused much damage.
2001.17.6
Essay in Gaelic by Niall Brownlie about John MacLean, the Balemartine bard.
Essay by Niall Brownlie about John MacLean, the Balemartine bard, 1827-1895.
2001.17.7
Bound copy of a translation into English by Niall Brownlie of his essay about John MacLean, the Balemartine bard.
2001.45.2
Photocopied extract `Fionn`s Ransom` contributed by Rev John Gregorson Campbell.
Story told by John Brown of Kilmoluaig to Rev John Gregorson Campbell in 1888.
2001.111.1
Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacLeod, Cornaigbeg, talking to Maggie Campbell on 19/6/2001.
Hugh MacLeod of Cornaigbeg talks to Maggie Campbell in June 2001 about Charles and Archie (Èairdsidh Tuairnear) MacLean of Cornaigmore, where Archie lived, his work as a wood turner, the equipment he used and the furniture, spinning wheels and coffins he made; Hugh also talks about Garaphail, Lag na Gruachan, Druimbuidhe and Whitehouse farms.
1997.325.1
Ship`s wheel from the schooner `Mary Stewart`, the remains of which are still visible in Scarinish Harbour.
1999.327.1
Cheese press with iron screw set into a stone base approximately 580 x 500 x 180 mm used to press cheese in a vat to extract the liquid. (Given to donor by Donald MacLean, Ardbeg.) Similar to the one shown in photograph X34
2000.183.1
Photocopied extract `The history of the seaweed industry: the alginate industry` by Ernest Booth.
The commercial uses of alginate, Curtis Stanford and various commercial ventures including Kelco.