Photocopied newspaper article `Tiree Folk Still Recall the Great China Tea Race` by A. M Kempsell.
Article about the Great China Tea Race of 1866, the winner of which the `Taeping` was captained by Tiree man Donald MacKinnon.
Photocpy of two newspaper articles `Thank you, Tiree!` and `The Late Captain Allan Campbell, Scarinish`.
(1) Letter to the editor of the People`s Journal by T. Henry Ruddich from near Carlisle who stayed on holiday at `Seaside`, Vaul. He praises Tiree as a holiday destination and includes a four-verse poem. (2) Obituary for Allan Campbell of Deobedal, Scarinsh.
Photocopied newspaper article `The doctor whose name lives on in Argyll school annals`.
Obituary for Dr Catherine Brown, daughter of Baptist minister Alexander Brown from Tiree.
Photocopied newspaper article `As a legend of the sea slips o`er the horizon` by Don Whyte.
Memories of the ferry `Lochearn` about to leave Caledonian MacBrayne for the Mediterranean.
Petition from Poor Persons in Tyree for Aid to Emigrate
Transcription of a petition for assistance to emigrate appended to ‘Crofts and Farms in the Hebrides’ by the 8th Duke of Argyll.
This petition was sent in 1851 to Sir John MacNeill, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland. Sir John was married to a daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll, who appended the petition to his ‘Crofts and Farms in Hebrides’ addressed to the Napier Commission of 1883.
A hundred and thirty-six islanders signed the petition. Ninety-nine of them were landless cottars; the remainder were small tenants, of whom only four paid rent over £10 a year. They represented the class of islanders that the Duke was anxious to clear from his estate.
Around a third of the petitioners were given assistance to emigrate with their families on board the ‘Conrad’, ‘Birman’ and ‘Onyx’ in July 1851. Another twenty-seven families from the island left with them.
Booklet `Tiree Tales` edited by Fiona MacKinnon.
Twenty-five stories about Tiree in English and Gaelic.
Documents and letter re the medical studies of Dr Hugh MacDougall, Vaul (1857-1929), at Glasgow University, 1876-9.
Photocopied pages from Glasgow Unversity Degree and Prize Lists between 1876 and 1880 showing entries for Hugh McDougall, from Glasgow University Album Session 1878-9 showing Hugh MacDougall with matriculation number 1782, and a letter dated 6/10/94 from Glasgow University Archives giving a summary of the classes Dr McDougall attended.
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Photocopied extracts from book `Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland` by John Gregorson Campbell.
Tales and traditions collected entirely from oral sources by John Gregorson Campbell, minister of Tiree from 1861-91.
Photocopied account for school books and jotters for Class 1, Cornaigmore H. G. School, 1941-2.
Invoice for books and jotters for 1941-2 Class 1, Cornaigmore School.
Photocopied book extract `Emigration, Social Change and Economic Recovery: the Isle of Tiree, 1760-1890` by T. M. Devine.
The effects of the increase in population, fragmentation of croft holdings and the potato famine on Tiree.
