Softback book “‘Prospects Are Improving’ The Story of Francis Simpson and family, Manitoba Pioneers” by Francis Simpson
Francis Simpson emigrated from Lancashire, England to Manitoba, Canada in 1882. He wrote his life story which was found and published by his descendants.
There are numerous references to the Lamont family of Tiree and a chapter on a visit to Tiree in 1905.
Hardback book ‘Carmina Gadelica – Ortha nan Gaidheal, Vol. VI’ of hymns and incantations from the highlands and islands of Scotland, translated into English by Alexander Carmichael, 1900.
Softback book “The McArthur – Burleigh Family History” by Megan Smiles, Australia, 2023.
The author descends from Hector McArthur b 1808 Heylipol, Tiree, emigrated to Australia 1838, brother of James MacArthur 1812-1891
Researches family history from McArthur of Tiree and Scotland more widely – Doyle, McDonald and Best. Also Burleigh / Burley of Cavan and Fermanagh on the border of today’s Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Donated by the author via our genealogist Flo Straker.
Leather-bound edition of The Bible, with parallel and illustrative passages. Inside leaf is inscribed, ‘D MacDonald, Kenovay, 1887’ and ‘Ishbel MacD’; pre-title page inscribed, ‘Ishbel MacDonald, Kenovay’.
Items belonged to the familes MacDonald, MacCorguadale and Maclean of Kenovay.
Hard-backed edition of Fishing Boats and Fisher Folk on the East Coast of Scotland’, written and illustrated by Peter F. Anson. First edition, published in 1930.
294pp with colour plates and black and white line drawings.
A local history of fishing ports, boats and fisher folk on the East Coast of Scotland, with mention of Oban, Tiree and Barra.
See 2020.6.1 for scanned copy of page relevant to Tiree.
Hardbacked edition of ‘A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World’, by Erika Rappaport. Published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. 409pp with black and white photographs.
‘A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women – through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa – transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. […] An expansive and orginal global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this fluid and powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.’
Compact, leather-covered, Gaelic ‘Biobull / Bible’, produced by Comunn-Bhiobull Duthchail na h-Alba. On the inside front cover is written ‘Cornaig Sunday School. For Mary Ishbel MacDonald [Kenovay], with every good wish for the future, J Gillies, 28/8/46. John Gillies was the Church of Scotland Missionary on Tiree for 17 years (1937-1954), teaching Sunday School in Gaelic and English.