Business card for Samuel & George Pascoe.
Business card for Samuel & George Pascoe of South Shields who owned steam water boats, fire engines and slavage appliances.
1997.226.46
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Dates: 1890s
1999.18.1
Photocopied extract from the Parish of Heylipol Kirk Session Minute Book 1880-1894, Vol I, pp 1-59.
Minutes of the meeting od Heylipol Kirk Session between 21/4/1880 and 22/7/1894.
2002.193.6
Paperback book `Old Skye tales` by William MacKenzie.
William Mackenzie (1851-1935) records local legends, folklore and superstition, the changes he saw in agriculture, education, the Church and emigration and recounts the history of Skye`s leading families and also the lives and experiences of crofters for whose rights he actively campaigned in the 1880s.
2002.188.12
Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 22/10/1890.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 22/10/1890 to the Duke`s chamberlain about the stipend for Rev. John Gregorson Campbell, the stealing of bent (marram grass?) behind Hough, the repayments of loans to fishermen and rent arrears.
2002.188.13
Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 6/11/1891.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 6/11/1891 to the Duke`s chamberlain about a petition from Neil Kennedy, Moss, about the purchase of a house.
2002.188.14
Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 20/3/1893.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 20/3/1893 to the Duke`s chamberlain about assistance to roof Archibald MacLean`s house in Cornaigbeg, the selling of a cottar`s house in Balephuil to pay for funeral expenses and another cottar family setting up residence in a byre in Balevullin.
2002.188.16
Photocopied letter from Edinburgh solicitors Lindsay Howe & Co dated 12/4/1893 to the Duke of Argyll`s chamberlain.
Advice re the demolition of the house of deceased cottar Flora Lamont in Balephuil.
2002.188.17.1
Letters regarding a disputed right of way through the commons of Kilmoluaig and Upper Cornaigmore, 1895
Copies of two letters: (1) from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 24/7/1895 to the Duke`s chamberlain about a right of way through the commons of Kilmoluaig and Upper Carnaigmore claimed by a merchant Charles MacLean and a crofter John Cameron in Moss, and the breaking of the march dykes to effect the right of way, (2) to William Sproat dated 26/8/1895 from John Cameron of Moss about the disputed right of way through the march dykes of Kilmoluaig and Upper Cornaigmore farms.
2002.188.19
Photocopied letter from the Parish Council Clerk D. MacPhail dated 9/8/1895.
Letter from the Parish Council Clerk D. MacPhail dated 9/8/1895 to the Duke`s chamberlain with a excerpt from the Parich Council minutes listing the number of applicants wanting to lease small holdings and allotments from the Council.
2002.188.20
MacDiarmid’s Report on Applicants for Allotments November 1893
Transcription of Hugh MacDiarmid’s report on applicants to the County Council for small holdings and allotments in 1893.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In November 1893 the Tiree factor for Argyll Estates Hugh MacDiarmid reported on a hundred and seventeen islanders who had applied to the County Council for small holdings and allotments under the Small Holding Act of the previous year.
The Council was required by the Act to investigate whether a petition for small holdings was ‘presented in good faith and on reasonable grounds’ and to inquire into the circumstances of the petitioners. Most of those assessed in MacDiarmid’s report had little or no means.
The Act allowed councils to let small holdings, instead of offering them for sale, where ‘persons desirous of themselves cultivating small holdings are unable to buy’ and the land did not exceed fifteen acres in extent.