Scanned record sheet issued by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for Private Hector McDonald, Balemartine (1894-1916), who died in battle during WWI, and is remembered in Cambrin Churchyard, France. Hector was the son of Hector and Chistina Campbell McDonald of Balemartine.
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Digitised copy account of debursements by Archibald Campbell of Barnacarie, factor of Tiree, for raising militia there, 1745.
The document contains two accounts of trips made by Campbell to Tiree in 1745 and 1746. The purpose of the first visit was to raise the militia, and Campbell’s account reveals the opposition he faced: ‘met w[ith] a greater number of men ready to oppose me and told if I wou[l]d not immediatly desist I wou[l]d soon repent it’. The purpose of his second visit in 1746 was to ‘raise the Rents and to reduce such of the Inhabitants of that Island as were in the Rebellion’.
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From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Rolled original inscription of the Tiree Community Council crest on modern vellum, 1987. Includes burgundy cardboard storage tube. Appears similar to reprint:
Handwritten letter dated 1894 from John MacLean, Scarinish, to the solicitor handling the Kenneth MacKenzie Trust, regarding a quarrel between Mrs MacKenzie and Mrs Wallace over who should inherit a manuscript and library (that may have belonged to Rev John Gregorson Campbell).
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Portion of a Tiree-Oban ferry ticket (1st class) issued on 30 June 1952.
Envelope and certificate of posting, stamped and issued at Cornaigmore Post Office in 1981.
Scanned copy of four receipts received by John MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, acknowledging his payment of £1 and 15 shillings for rent of his land from the Duke of Argyll. Signed by the factor Hugh MacDiarmid in 1895 and 1897.
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Scanned copy of a certificate of qualification belonging to Niall Colin Brown Campbell, Scarinish (b.1933), dated 1964, issued by the Canadian Department of Transport enabling him to pilot ships on the Great Lakes of Ontario and Erie in Canada. Before moving to Glasgow and then Canada, Niall lived at Deobedal, Scarinish.
Scanned copy of a certificate of an apprentice’s indenture belonging to Niall Colin Brown Campbell, Scarinish (b.1933), dated 1949. His mother, Margaret Campbell, signed her consent to the apprenticeship. They lived at Deobedal, Scarinish. Niall served his apprenticeship with H Hogarth & Sons, Shipowners, Glasgow, until 1953. The reverse side of the document includes the names of the ships Niall served on and his pay. Niall signed his name C Campbell suggesting that he was known as Colin Campbell.
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Scanned copy of a Board of Trade Certificate of Competency, First Class Engineer, to John Cromarty Brown (b.1861), Mannal House, signed in 1893 at Cardiff, Wales. Printed on parchment or vellum.
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