Photocopied assignation dated 1880 by the Trustees of Baptist Church of Tiree in favour of the Baptist Home Missionary Society of Scotland.
Assignation dated 1880 by the Trustees of Baptist Church of Tiree of the tack at Baugh in favour of the Baptist Home Missionary Society of Scotland.
Photocopied feu charter by the Duke of Argyll in favour of the Tiree School Board dated 1886.
Feu charter dated 1886 by the Duke of Argyll in favour of the Tiree School Board for a piece of ground in Balemartine. (Bundle 2501)
Photocopied specification of repairs to be done to Tiree Parish Church, dated 1892.
Specification of repairs to be done to Tiree Parish Church, 1892. (Bundle 2505)
Heylipol Church in 1900
Transcription of a letter from the Rev. Dugald MacLean to the Duke of Argyll about the condition of Heylipol Church in 1900.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In medieval times Tiree was divided in two parishes, Kirkapol in the east under the Bishop of the Isles and Soroby in the west under the Abbot of Iona. In 1618 the two parishes were united with Coll. In 1865 Coll was severed from Tiree and ten years later Soroby was severed from Kirkapol.
A church at Heylipol had been built in 1839 to serve the west of the island where the greater part of the population lived. In this letter of 1900, the Rev. Dugald MacLean describes the dangerous and dilapidated state of the church despite many repairs carried out over the previous twenty years.
A new church designed by William Mackenzie was erected on the site in 1902. Of cruciform Gothic design with a bell tower over the entrance porch and large enough to accommodate 365 worshippers, the church is still in current use.
Photocopied letter from the Air Ministry dated 8/2/1937 to Allan MacDiarmid.
Letter from the Air Ministry dated 8/2/1937 to Allan MacDiarmid about a draft feu charter for the Met Station at Cornaigmore. (Bundle 2525)
Photocopied letter dated 26/2/1909 from Donald MacFadyen to Hugh MacDiarmid.
Letter dated 26/2/1909 from Donald MacFadyen on behalf of the Free Church Congregation on Tiree to factor Hugh MacDiarmid asking for a church site at the sea shore on Gott Bay. (bundle 2522)
Photocopied letter dated 22/10/1900 from Heylipol manse to the Duke of Argyll.
Letter dated 22/10/1900 from the Rev Dugald MacLean to the Duke of Argyll informing him that the report on the condition of Heylipol Church omits the decayed state of the windows and suggesting that it might be cheaper to build a new church than to repair the existing one. (Bundle 2504)
Photocopied feu contract between the Duke of Argyll and the Trustees of the Baptist Congregation at Baugh dated 1880.
Feu contract between the Duke of Argyll and the Trustees of the Baptist Congregation at Baugh dated 15 & 19/10/1880. (Bundle 2501)
Rescue involving the crew of the ‘Duchess’
Transcription of a letter of 1868 from the Tiree factor John Geekie about a rescue involving the crew of the ‘Duchess’.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In a letter of 1868 to the 8th Duke of Argyll, his factor John Geekie commended eight Tiree men who had rescued three fishermen from drowning in Balephuil Bay during a gale. Two of the men were crew of the ‘Duchess’, built by the Duke in 1860 and let out to local men.
In May 1861 the factor had reported that ‘the crew of the Duchess fishing boat had a very good fishing…once they took courage and went out where the Tyree boats were fishing outside the light house’, the implication being that the crew were unnecessarily timid.
Their reluctance is easily explained by their lack of familiarity handling a vessel nearly twice the length of the average Tiree fishing boat and also by the dangers of fishing five or more miles from shore in a small sailing boat in the days before reliable weather forecasting and global positioning.
Photocopied letter dated 6/5/1871 about the wreck of the `Duchess`.
Incomplete letter dated 6/5/1871 probably addressed to the Duke of Argyll about the loss of the fishing boat `Duchess` during a storm.
