Black and white postcard of Scarinish harbour ca. 1880
Postcard of Scarinish with the Mary and Effie in the harbour and the hotel in the background taken around 1880. One of the boats is Alan MacFadyen`s smack.
1999.233.8
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Dates: 1900s
1998.27.11
Photocopied speech by Ronald MacDonald, Cornaigbeg given on 26/7/1986 (2 copies).
Speech by Ronnie MacDonald, Cornaigbeg, given on 26/7/1986 at the opening ceremony of Tur Mhic Chaluim to commemorate one hundred years of the Crofters Act and to honour those who fought for crofters` rights. (For sound recording of event, see AC4 – `Tiree remembers` )
2003.19.5.1
Photocopied newspaper cutting about hiring bulls and Tiree`s cattle exports.
Two photocopied articles from The Scottish Farmer, 2003: (1) Crofters Commission scheme which hires out bulls to crofters, illustrated with a colour photograph of Lachie MacKinnon, Parkhouse, (2) Tiree`s export of cattle 500 years ago.
1998.27.6
Photocopied letter from M MacArthur, Middleton dated 4/5/1950.
Letter from M. MacArthur, Middleton dated 4/5/1950 with a short history of the church in Tiree and a list of ministers from 1676 to 1917.
2003.18.21
Postcard made from a colour sketch of Scarinish harbour in 1908.
2003.18.22
Black and white postcard of Balemartine Schoolhouse postmarked 1908.
Balemartine Schoolhouse before World War I.
2003.18.23
Black and white postcard of Balemartine from the north in the early 20th century.
Balemartine looking south before 1910.
2003.16.7
Journal extract `The Tiree and Iona Marbles` by A. K. Coomaraswamy.
Description, location and analysis of Tiree marble.
1999.117.27
Rev. Archibald Farquharson
Photograph of the Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878
Courtesy of Mr Reg Knapman
Archibald Farquharson was born in 1800 at Moulin in Perthshire. He underwent a religious conversion in 1818, influenced by his older brother who later became a Church of Scotland minister. After working some years as a gamekeeper, he left for Glasgow to study at the University and Theological College.
In 1831 he was sent to Tiree as an Independent missionary and the following year moved there with his wife Mary MacDonald and their two young daughters, Eliza and Isabella. Seven weeks later his wife died. Despite this, he determined to stay in Tiree for the rest of his life.
The Independent Church in Tiree was established in 1832 and over the next three years chapels were erected at Cornaig and Ruaig. On average 100 to 200 worshippers would attend his services although in 1840 only 54 were true Congregationalists.
Black and white photograph of Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878.
Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878.
1999.117.28
Black and white photograph of Alexander MacLean (1855-1937).
Alexander MacLean (1855-1937), known as Sandy, whose father of the same name emigrated to New Zealand after his wife died leaving Sandy in the care of his uncle Donald at Ardbeg.
