Woman`s skirt, blouse and bonnet.
Woman`s skirt, blouse and bonnet from Salum House and worn in the late 19th or early 20th century. All items are black. The skirt has a black netted overskirt, the blouse has black beadwork and a netted overlay and the bonnet is black crocheted wool.
Celtic knot design by Johnny Barr in 1901-2.
Circular Celtic knot design 250 mm in diameter in pencil on tracing paper made by Johnny Barr at wood carving classes at the Lodge in 1901-2. The design was intended for a wooden table top.
Paperback booklet `The Catholic Knight of Crofting: Sir Donald Horne MacFarlane, MP for Argyll 1885-86, 1892-95` by Donald E. Meek.
Biographical sketch of Sir Donald Horne MacFarlane 1830-1904, a pro-crofter MP for Argyll who was honoured by Gaelic poets.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Fifteenth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 38-41.
The building of the Isolation Hospital at Heanish and four cases of diptheria; tables of the numbers of cases of infectious diseases between 1892 and 1905.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Sixteenth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 36-39, 58-59.
Recommendation that an ambulance carriage is provided for Tiree; report of two cases of diptheria and five of enteric fever in Tiree in 1906.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Seventeenth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 46-47
The provision of a horse-drawn ambulance carriage for Tiree; reports of diptheria on Tiree, whooping cough on Coll, typhus fever in Tiree and one case of plague contact.
Bell gun with firing mallet used as a humane killer for slaughtering cattle and sheep. Originally used by Tiree butcher, Donald Archie MacLean, to slaughter cattle and sheep, this humane killer was given to the vetinary on the island, Robert Beck, in the 1960s. Made of cast iron, the maker’s name, W. W. Greener of Birmingham, is embossed around the rim of bell. Once loaded with a single bullet, the bell was positioned on the front of the animal’s head and the gun fired by hitting the trigger (the protruding knob) with the wooden mallet. Although very efficient and humane, it required two hands to operate and another person to steady the animal’s head. Not considered safe enough for use indoors, humane killers with captive bolts are now used instead.
Tiree in 100 Objects – 39 – Bell Gun
The History of Tiree in 100 Objects
Black and white photograph of the MacFadyen family of Baile Mhic `Eotha` around 1895.
The MacFadyen family of Baile Mhic `Eotha` around 1895. L-R: (back) Hugh; Effie, emigrated to Australia; Annabelle, mother of Lachie MacFarlane; John (Iain Fhortaidh); (front) Marion; John (Fortaidh); Flora mother of John Brown (Iain Thearlaich).
The MacLean family in 1901
Photograph of the MacLean family in 1901.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
Hector MacLean, a crofter in Balephuil, married Mary MacDonald of Caoles in 1828. The couple had nine children, two which are in this photograph of 1901: Hugh (Eòghann Mòr) seated on the left and Allan (Ailean Bàn) on the right. Allan owned and skippered the schooner ‘Cirrus of Rosa’.
In 1877 Mary, by then a widow, emigrated to Shoal Lake, Manitoba with four of her sons and two daughters. Only Hugh remained on Tiree where he settled on the croft at Caoles tenanted by his maternal uncle. Two of Hugh’s three sons, Donald and Hector, are also in the photograph.
Hector was a minister who spent most of his life on Skye; his four sons all became doctors. Donald had three sons and his descendants still live on Tiree today.
Black and white photograph of the MacLeans of Caoles in 1906.
The MacLean family of Caoles in 1906. L-R: Hugh MacLean (Eoghann Mor) of Caoles; his sons, Donald and Hector; his brother Captain Allan MacLean (Ailean Ban) who emigrated to Manitoba, Canada in 1877. Donald was the father of Hugh, Willie and Angus; Hector was a minister of the church.
Black and white photograph of Rev. John MacNiven of Barrapol.
Rev. John MacNiven of Barrapol, taken around 1900.
