Photocopied newspaper article about Tearlach MacGregor Whyte
Obituary for Tearlach MacGregor Whyte, son of artist Duncan Macgregor Whyte
1998.4.7
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1998.4.8
Photocopied newspaper article about exhibition of the works of Duncan MacGregor Whyte and Mary Barnard
Notice of exhibition and information about the artists.
1998.4.9
Photocopied newspaper article about Captain John C. MacKinnon
Description of retiral ceremony with photos of Captain MacKinnon and his wife and of Captain Neil Campbell who succeeds as master of the Claymore.
1998.297.1
Audio cassette recording Isobel Weatherston interviewed by Dr John Holliday in Scarinish on 17/10/98.
Mrs Isobel Weatherston talks about her husband, Bill, and his career in dentistry, their purchase of Taigh na Beairt and the Reading Room in the Scarinish.
Click here to download the sound file ac69.mp3 (14MB).
1997.8.1
Photocopy of precognition and indictment of Hector MacDonald of Kirkapol/Earnal for the murder of his wife, Jane Seaton.
Description of the murder of Jane Seaton by her husband, Hector MacDonald in February 1857, the evidence against him and a list of witnesses and their testimony. MacDonald was convicted and given a life sentence at Inveraray Court of Justiciary in April 1857. He was then held in Inveraray Jail until his transportation with 282 other convicts to Western Australia in August 1858. Their ship, Edwin Fox, arrived in November of the same year.
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1997.8.2.1
Photocopied precognititon and indictment of six Tiree men for theft, pillaging, plundering, stouthrief and assault in March 1934.
(1) Account of the shipwreck and looting of its cargo by the inhabitants of Tiree, the stabbing of watchman Archibald MacNeill of Hough in the leg and the outcome of the trial. (2) Description of the charges against John Beaton, Archibald Kennedy, Donald MacMillan, Malcolm MacMillan, Peter MacDonald and James Black, a list of witnesses and their testimony.
1998.296.1
Interior decoration in the 1920s
Sound clip in English of Mabel Kennedy talking about interior decoration in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mabel MacArthur
Mabel Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in October 1998 about the interior decoration of the house at Main Road Farm in Balephuil where she lived until she went to work in service in Glasgow in 1926.
The floors of the house were made of concrete although, at that time, some must still have been beaten earth and clay. Earthen floors were considered warmer for children’s feet than concrete or flagstones and were kept clean by a sprinkling of shell sand every day except Sunday.
The walls inside were painted twice a year with whitewash made from seashells. The difficulty and expense of obtaining household goods on a remote Hebridean island encouraged the resourcefulness of the local people who would make do with the materials to hand.
1997.7.1.1
Letter dated 7/2/1925 from Rev. Alex. MacKinnon, St.Columba Parish Church, Glasgow, plus photocopy.
Letter of condolence from the Rev. MacKinnon to Hugh, the son of his neighbour, on the death of his mother.
1997.6.1.1
Newspaper article about Rev. Hector Cameron Moy, with photocopy
Obituary for Rev. Hector Cameron Moy, native of Tiree.
1997.5.1.1
Newspaper cutting about incomers` views of Tiree, with photocopies.
Views of Jack and Audrey Carter and John and Nancy Martin on living on Tiree, and Article on Mary and Elizabeth Robertson`s garden and craft shop at the Glebe.