Letter about a tune specially written for Robert Beck by Willie MacLean
Handwritten letter from Robert Beck, Ruaig, to William MacLean, Balinoe, thanking him for the tune that he wrote specially for Mr Beck, bagpipe master. Dated 23/1/2007.
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Paper on emigration to Western Australia, 2010
Paper entitled `Whiteness on the frontiers of Empire: Hebridean Scots and group settlement in Western Australia 1923-1928` in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 2010.
Paper on ‘The Policy of Boarding Out Children in Scotland` from the mid 1800s to 1960s by Ruth Currie and Alastair Ramage at Glasgow Caledonian University, ca 1995.
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Magazine article about James and Archibald McDowall 1780-1894
Article published in Ancestor Vol. 29 No.3 2008, about the lives and deaths of James McDowall (1780-1821), who was the Excise Officer on Tiree from July 1891 until December 1821 when he died at sea off Coll on the way back from Mull, and his grandson Archibald McDowell (1850-1894), who died during service as a fireman in Melbourne, Australia. Written by Margaret Whitaker, wife of James McDowell`s g-g-g-grandson, in 2008. Includes a letter from Margaret Whitaker to An Iodhlann in January 2011.
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Information about Rev. Archibald Farquharson (1800-1878) of Tiree
Emailed information about Rev. Archibald Farquharson`s family and genealogy and a list of his publications of Gaelic hymns, poems, language, work, communities and travels in the Highlands and islands from the National Library of Scotland.
Booklet “Island Postal History” Series: No.9, 1979
Booklet about the history of the postal services to the islands of Mull, Iona, Coll & Tiree, published by the author James A. MacKay of Dumfries in 1979.
Two copies of Ossian magazine 1981 with an article by Alan Boyd, Balephuil
Article and poem in Gaelic `An Rud a Dh` fheumas Sinn a Dhèanamh` written by Alan Boyd, Balephuil, in the magazine of the Glasgow University Ossianic Society in 1981. See page 15.
Extract from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland – Scottish Topography, 1895
Photocopied extract about Tiree`s topography from the ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 1895.
Letter and account of RAF airman F.C.”Freddie” Gee`s time on Tiree 1944-45
Letter from F.C.”Freddie” Gee to Dr Holliday regarding his enclosed account of his days on Tiree as an RAF Meterological Air Observer during WWII. He wrote it for his grandchildren and includes mention of two Tiree school teachers, May and Grace, whom he befriended, and Corporal Eddie Rudd who later taught his children at school. Includes contact photographs of F. Gee and various images from Tiree. See also photographs P103-P107.
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PhD Thesis “Later Prehistory of Tiree and Coll” by Darko Maricevic, 2009
Bound PhD Thesis “Later Prehistory of Tiree and Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland: Application of geophysics in archaeological investigarion of cultural landscapes” by Darko Maricevic.
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