Bound report for Comunn na Gaidhlig by Kenneth MacKinnon, SGRUD.
Description of events affecting the Gaelic language over the previous century and the implications of developments for future language policies.
1997.11.1
Leave a Reply
Dates: 1900s
1997.18.11
Article about the late Rev. Dugald MacFarlane, 1908
Photocopied article from the Scottish Baptist Magazine, November 1908 re the late Rev. Dugald MacFarlane.
1997.16.1
Photocopy of first draft of family tree for Archibald and Catherine MacKinnon
Family tree giving 41 descendants of Archibald and Catherine MacKinnon
1997.18.12
Family tree for Robert Maxwell MacFarlane (1819-1893)
Photocopy of hand-drawn family tree for Robert Maxwell MacFarlane, minister, whose father , William, was a crofter at Balinoe.
1997.17.1.1
Family tree of the MacKinnons and Lamonts of Heanish, and Peter MacLeod, Ruaig
The descendants of Hugh MacKinnon (Eoghainn a` Bhaile), Tiree c. 1725 and Ronald Lamont, Tiree c. 1750, and a family tree for Peter Macleod, born 1933 in Ruaig Schoolhouse.
1997.18.1
Photocopy of family tree for the MacFarlanes of Balinoe
Descendants of Duncan MacFarlane, Balinoe, born c. 1750.
1997.18.2.1
Letter from donor and photocopied information re ministers James, Duncan and Dugald Macfarlane.
Extracts from `History of Baptists in Scotland`, 1926, and `Island Harvest` by Donald Meek re John, Duncan, James, Robert and their father William MacFarlane.
1998.6.1
Laminated handwritten Gaelic poem composed by John MacEachern, Cornaigbeg
(unknown)
1998.296.1
Interior decoration in the 1920s
Sound clip in English of Mabel Kennedy talking about interior decoration in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mabel MacArthur
Mabel Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in October 1998 about the interior decoration of the house at Main Road Farm in Balephuil where she lived until she went to work in service in Glasgow in 1926.
The floors of the house were made of concrete although, at that time, some must still have been beaten earth and clay. Earthen floors were considered warmer for children’s feet than concrete or flagstones and were kept clean by a sprinkling of shell sand every day except Sunday.
The walls inside were painted twice a year with whitewash made from seashells. The difficulty and expense of obtaining household goods on a remote Hebridean island encouraged the resourcefulness of the local people who would make do with the materials to hand.
1998.2.1
Photocopy of The Shorter Catechism by Rev. Roderick Lawson.
Catechism prepared for use in schools.