Payments to emigrants from Tiree to Canada in August 1849
Transcription of a list of payments made to emigrants to Canada in August 1849.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In 1847, the second year of the potato famine, the Central Relief Board assumed overall control of the relief efforts of the Free Church and the Destitution Committees of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The following year inspectors were appointed to ensure that all recipients passed the ‘destitution test’.
No-one was eligible for relief until all their means were exhausted. Able-bodied labourers were excluded as were those who had a legal claim to subsistence from the Parish. Those considered fit enough were expected to labour outdoors on public works, the rest to spin, knit or make nets.
To ensure that only the truly destitute would accept relief, the meal ration was cut to one pound a day and paid for by the whole labour of the recipient. Such harsh conditions and the promise of assisted passages from the Estate persuaded a further 364 to emigrate from Tiree in 1849.
List of emigrants from Tiree in 1851
Transcription of the list of emigrants from Tiree in 1851.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
As a result of the potato famine of 1846, the 8th Duke of Argyll devised a strategy to deal with the endemic poverty and overcrowding on Tiree: assisted emigration of cottars and the smallest tenants, prohibition of the subdivision of crofts, consolidation of small tenancies and the creation of small farms.
This led to a reduction in the numbers of small tenants, increased numbers of larger tenants and an increase in rental income. However, these policies also contributed to the continuing fall in the island’s population. An estimated 3670 people left Tiree between 1841 and 1881.
A second wave of emigration in 1880s confirmed the decline which was sustained throughout the 20th century with many islanders leaving to find work elsewhere.
Photocopied list of names and ages of passengers on board ‘SS Barlow’ bound for Montreal in June 1849.
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Photocopied list of place-names on Blaeu`s map of Coll and Tiree, 1654.
List of place-names copied from Blaeu`s map by unknown person.
Two copies the 1995 Tiree Telephone Directory.
List of local subscribers with adverts. Cover illustrated with Tiree drawings from the sketchbook of Kate Findlater.
Tiree Telephone Directory, 1997.
Bilingual list of local subscribers and adverts.
Back to Front Directory, 1997.
The subcribers in the 1997 Tiree Telephone Directory listed in numerical order of telephone number.
Folder of International Direct Dialling Leaflets produced by British Telecom International.
Leaflets giving International Direct Dialling Country and Atrea Codes.
Catalogue of photographs taken by George Holleyman, FSA.
Photocopies of the photographs taken by George Holleyman while a corporal in the RAF based in Tiree during World War II.
Transcript from Argyll & Bute Archives of a list of documents relating to the Tobermory Procurator Fiscal in 1857.
List of 39 sets of documents relating to various court cases handled by the Tobermory Procurator Fiscal in 1857, one of which is the case against John MacKinnon, Coll accused of the culpable homicide of Margaret MacKinnon, wife of Lachlan Lamont of Vaul, while attempting to deliver her of a stillborn child.
