Black & white postcard photograph of an elderly woman holding a baby on her lap outside a house (not Tiree). Found in a collection of photographs connected to Marion MacLeod, Port Mor, Sandaig, and likely to be of her relations. On the reverse is written “Miss M MacLeod, Sandaig, Middleton, Isle of Tiree”, plus notes on colours of features and clothing of both subjects.
Black & white photograph of three crofting men by a pen of sheep, probably at Sandaig/Middleton. Found in a collection of photographs connected to Marion MacLeod, Port Mor, Sandaig.
Black & white photograph of an unidentified elderly lady related to Marion MacLeod, Sandaig (possibly her mother), standing outside a thatched house in around 1910.
Collection of 42 scanned black & white photographs of people and places connected to Marion MacLeod, Port Mor, Sandaig. Most are portraits of un-named adults and children, with others of soldiers in uniform, crofters at work, and houses in Sandaig. A selection are catalogued separately: see 2019.81.2 – 10
Photocopied tribute to Annie MacIntyre, Gott Farm, written by Lady Fergusson of Kilkerran in around 1955. Annie was the housekeeper and friend of the various members of the family of the Dukes of Argyll when they were staying at The Lodge, over a span of 50 years.
Click here to view 2019.80.1
Black & white photograph of Rev Dr Dugald MacFarlane (1869-1956), Moderator of the Church of Scotland during 1937-1938. Dugald was one of the sons of the Rev Duncan MacFarlane and Catherine MacLachlan (both of Tiree), who lived at Baugh Manse.
Scanned copy of a telegram sent by Captain John Brown (1902-1986), Balevullin, to his parents in Cornaig, after being shipwrecked on Tuskar Rock off the east coast of Ireland in 1927. Includes a page of background information. John Brown was 25 years old at the time and could not swim.
He met his future wife when his ship, the Baron Belhaven, was being repaired in Barry Docks (west of Cardiff) in 1941. A bomb had dropped down the funnel when sailing in convoy out of Liverpool during WW2.
Black & white postcard photograph of cargo boats at Scarinish Harbour in around 1940, with a kilted gentleman in the foreground. The ship behind is probably the Mary Stewart.
Printed scan of a page from the Electoral Register for Tiree for 1931, showing the donor’s relatives Quinten Henderson and Mrs Marianne Henderson living at Ernal [Taigh Henderson, Eirneal, Gott].
Quintin McGill Henderson was born in Glasgow 1862. He worked as an electrical engineer. He retired around 1927 was last on the electoral roll for his home in Glasgow in 1928-29. In summer of 1929 he is recorded as living at Ernal, Scarinish, Isle of Tyree. Quintin died on 7 April 1934 at his daughter’s home in Glasgow. His second wife was Mary Ann Grant Callan, born in 1875 in Glasgow. She died in 1933 (information from his granddaughter Sheena Peckham).
Black & white photograph of Quentin M Henderson and his wife Mary Ann (Marianne) Henderson, with a cat and a dog, at Earnal in July 1929. The tin shed they are leaning against may be the one that Quentin built. It was then owned by Archie Livingstone, a plumber from Tobermory, and was later dismantled and sold to the father of Mona MacLean in Scarinish [possibly becoming the shop there].
Quintin McGill Henderson was born in Glasgow 1862. He worked as an electrical engineer. He retired around 1927 was last on the electoral roll for his home in Glasgow in 1928-29. In summer of 1929 he is recorded as living at Ernal, Scarinish, Isle of Tyree. Quintin died on 7 April 1934 at his daughter’s home in Glasgow. His second wife was Mary Ann Grant Callan, born in 1875 in Glasgow. She died in 1933 (information from his granddaughter Sheena Peckham).
