Appendix J: Locations, households and populations by census year, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”
Printout of Appendix J: Locations, households and populations by census year, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. List of numbers of households and population sizes in each township by census year from 1779 to 1891.
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Email about Tiree MacFadyens and MacLeans that settled in Regina, Canada in 1885
Email from Barry Beesley to An Iodhlann dated 14/10/2004, about his grandmother Christina MacFadyen, Salum, who emmigrated to Regina, Canada with her parents Donald MacFadyen and Mary MacLean, her uncle Neil MacFadyen and his wife Effie MacLean, and her father`s cousin Donald MacFadyen and wife Flora MacLean. Mary, Flora and Effie were sisters from Cornaigbeg. Includes their genealogies and an account of their lives in Canada.
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Email about Charles MacKinnon who emigrated from Tiree to Australia in 1862
Printed email from Allison McKinnon, Canada, to Alasdair Sinclair, An Iodhlann, regarding her research into Captain Charles McKinnon of Sydney, who emmigrated from Tiree to Australia in 1862, and the ships that he sailed with, including the Bungarie, Melrose and Woodbine. Includes information on his descendents.
Email message about the family of Margaret Russell, Canada, whose great-great-grandparents were crofters on Tiree
Email message (23/10/2004) to An Iodhlann from Margaret Russell, Canada, about her great-great-grandparents Archibald McPhaiden and Mary Gillies, crofters at Balemartine and Balinoe. Includes extensive details of the family`s and descendents lives from moving to Glasgow and then to Canada in 1921.
Newspaper article, 1986, “Of seers, witches and ghosts” about 19th century seer John MacLean
Original and photocopy of a newspaper article by Niall M. Brownlie, Barrapol, about John MacLean, Ruaig & Hough, a well known 19th century `seer` of the future who foresaw the first and second world wars, the arrival of the RAF on Tiree, the division of farms into crofts and the disappearance of townships behind Ben Hough (which were buried by wind-blown sand?).
Genealogical information for Hugh MacKinnon born 1841 at Ruaig
Copy of printed genealogy of Hugh MacKinnon, born in 1841 at Ruaig and emigrated to Bruce County, Canada. Includes details of marriage and children.
Photocopies of two black & white photographs relating to Tiree MacKinnons who emmigrated to Canada in the 1800s.
Two photocopied photographs relating to the family/descendants of Hugh MacKinnon born 1841 Ruaig who emmigrated to Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. Probably taken in the late 1800`s: (1) unknown group of two men and one woman, and (2) a barn/homestead.
Newspaper obituary from 1909 for Ann MacKinnon, Canada, formerly Tiree
Photocopy of an obituary from a Canadian newspaper dated June 1909, for Mrs Ann MacKinnon (formerly Clark, nee MacDonald) who was born on Tiree in about 1836. Ann emmigrated to Brock township, Ontario, with her father Donald MacDonald and seven siblings shortly after her mother Eliza Lamont died. Ann moved to Bruce County with her first husband, Malcolm Clark, with whom she had two children, then to Brandon Hills with her second husband Hugh MacKinnon (also originally from Tiree), with whom she had eight children.
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Information and photos about the ancestry and family of author Alistair MacLean
Two documents and seven photographs detailing the ancestry and family of the author Alistair MacLean (“When eight bells toll” etc) whose paternal grandfather, Lachlan MacLean b.1852, was from Tiree, and whose maternal great-grandfather, Archibald Lamont b.1805, was from Tiree: (1) Mary Margaret MacEachern Lamont, Alastair`s mother, and (2) Gilleasbuig MacLean, Alastair`s brother. Includes family trees. Donated by Ian MacLean, London, Alastair`s nephew. Photographs accessioned separately Q139-Q145.
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Newspaper article about Roderick Nicolson, Headteacher at a Tiree school in 1913.
Photocopied newspaper article from 1986, and accompanying letter to Archie MacKinnon, Cornaigmore, from his cousin in Australia, Sept 2009. A friend of Archie`s cousin had given his cousin the newspaper article and letter. The article reports Roderick Nicolson`s 95th birthday celebrations at the Cabarfeidh Hotel, Balallan and of his teaching career, including his first teaching position as Headmaster of a primary school on Tiree in 1913. The accompanying letter gives details of his family on Lewis.
