Object Type: photograph

2000.26.16

Black and white photograph of brothers John Nad Murdoch MacLean of Kilmoluaig.

Duplicate of photograph S80 – not indexed or displayed.

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2000.26.17

Black and white photograph of Margaret MacLean nee Munn of Kilmoluaig.

Margaret Munn, wife of Hector MacLean of Kilmoluaig and mother of John, Murdoch and Donald Archie, taken in the 1930s or 1940s.

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1997.268.1

Black and white photograph of Scarinish harbour, pre-World War II.

Scarinish harbour. The building in the background was originally built as a church, used intermittently as a prison and latterly as a store by the owners of the Mary Stewart. It was pulled down to make roads during World War II.

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1999.117.27

Rev. Archibald Farquharson

Photograph of the Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878

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Courtesy of Mr Reg Knapman

Archibald Farquharson was born in 1800 at Moulin in Perthshire. He underwent a religious conversion in 1818, influenced by his older brother who later became a Church of Scotland minister. After working some years as a gamekeeper, he left for Glasgow to study at the University and Theological College.

In 1831 he was sent to Tiree as an Independent missionary and the following year moved there with his wife Mary MacDonald and their two young daughters, Eliza and Isabella. Seven weeks later his wife died. Despite this, he determined to stay in Tiree for the rest of his life.

The Independent Church in Tiree was established in 1832 and over the next three years chapels were erected at Cornaig and Ruaig. On average 100 to 200 worshippers would attend his services although in 1840 only 54 were true Congregationalists.

Black and white photograph of Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878.

Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878.