Transcript of a Police Report submitted to Henry Nisbet, Tobermory Procurator Fiscal, regarding the discovery of a male body on the shore at Greenhill opposite Greenhill House on 20 February 1860. It is speculated in the report that the body was one of the men lost on board the Swan of Belfast, which was wrecked on 19 January 1860. The body was found by Walter Carmichael (labourer, Greenhill). The report is submitted by Finlay Fraser, Detective Constable.
A statement is provided by Walter Carmichael, and is corroborated by:
Neil McLean (Greenhill) Malcolm McNeil (baker from Portree, Skye, but at the time residing in Greenhill House) Lachlan Cameron (tailor, Greenhill) Hector McLean (crofter, Sandaig) Alexander McLean (Ballmeniach [Middleton])
This report contains descriptions of a body in a state of decomposition. Click to read a transcript of this item.
From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Transcript of Police Report and Precognition of Witnesses regarding the sudden death of Archibald MacInnes and Charles MacLean in February 1860. MacInnes and MacLean drowned when a wave hit their boat while fishing for lobsters on an open skiff near Bealach na Ciste on the Isle of Soay. Duncan MacInnes (brother of Archibald MacInnes, Ruaig) survived the accident. The report contains descriptions of clothing on the bodies of the sailors. Copies of the registrations of the deaths are also included.
Statements are provided from:
Duncan McInnes (fisherman, Ruaig) Alexander MacLean (shoemaker, Ruaig) John McInnes (tailor, Ruaig. Father of the deceased) Niel McLeod (fisherman, Ruaig) John Lamont (fisherman, Ruaig) Donald McInnes (fisherman, Ruaig) Archibald McInnes (fisherman, Ruaig) Finlay Fraser (Detective Constable, Tiree) Malcolm Livingstone (Registrar, Tiree) Flora McKinnon or McLean (wife of John McLean, Ruaig) Hugh McKinnon (fisherman, Ruaig)
Transcript of statements regarding the possible theft of sheep in Morven, November 1860. The sheep may have been stolen while they were being transported between Coll and Lochaline in Morven.
Statements are provided by:
Donald Macfarlan (MacFarlane) (boatman, Arynagour, Coll) James Campbell (son of Donald Campbell, Ballyhaugh, Coll) William Borthwick (shepherd, Mungasdale, Morven) James Cameron (shepherd, Ardentippert, Morven) James Cameron (shepherd, Barr, Morven) John Cameron (son of Donald Cameron, Knock) Donald Cameron (boatman, Knock) Allan Cameron (son Donald Cameron, Knock) Donald Macdonald (tenant, Arinagour, Coll) Niel Livingstone (shepherd, Arinagour, Coll) John Cameron (ploughman, residing with Donald Macdonald, Arinagour, Coll)
Transcript of a Police Report against Flora Campbell on the charges of theft in April 1860. Flora Campbell (daughter of Mary Ferguson, Taoslin, Ardtun; residing with Malcolm Black, sailor, Lower Ardtun) is charged with stealing peats from a peat stack belonging to Hugh McKinnon (crofter, Heanish, Tiree) on the shore of Lower Ardtun, Isle of Mull.
Statements are provided from Dugald Douglass (pauper, Lower Ardtun), Janet McLucas (residing with Widow McLucas, Lower Ardtun), Meron Smith (general servant, Lower Ardtun) and Constable John MacFarlane.
Transcript of Precognition of Witnesses regarding the discovery of bodies on board the wreck of the Francis of St Ives and on the shore of the Isle of Coll, November 1860. The Francis of St Ives, a three masted vessel, was wrecked off the shore of Caoles in Coll, ‘between Ellen oare and Caol’. Descriptions are given of tattoos upon the body of the sailor on board the ship, as well as the clothes he was wearing.
Statements are provided by: Hector Maclean (son of and residing with John Maclean, Arileod) John Kennedy (Grimsary) John Craig (tacksman, Crossapol) Charles Cowan (mason, Ballyhough)
In a letter attached from James MacColl (Interim Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Coll) to Henry Nisbet (Tobermory Procurator Fiscal), MacColl writes that the body of Mrs Fowler, a ‘pauper’ residing at Torastan in Coll, was discovered on the 18th October 1860 at some distance from her own house.
This report contains descriptions of the bodies discovered. Click to read a transcript of this item.
From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.
Transcript of precognition of witnesses against Robert Macdonald on charges of fraud, August 1860. MacDonald (teacher, Kilbride) was appointed as Interim Inspector of Poor for the Island of Coll. Statements are provided from John Smeaton (miller and farmer, Acha), Donald MacDonald (farmer, Arinagour), John MacLean (Mippost). The document contains a copy of Cash Received and Payments made by Robert MacDonald from November 1859 to May 1860.
Transcript of a police report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal regarding the theft of items from a trunk on board the steamer Islesman travelling between Lochboisdale and Tiree in October 1858. Statements are provided from Mary Maclean (daughter of Donald McLean, Kenovay), and Mrs Catherine Maclean or MacDonald (wife of Neil MacDonald, Kilbride, South Uist). Maclean reports a previous theft on board a steamer between Tiree and Lochboisdale.
Transcript of a police report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal charging Flora McPhail or Shediack of Breach of the Peace in May 1859. McPhail (Earnal) is charged with cursing, threatening and abusing Archibald McKinnon (cotter, Earnal). Statements are provided by Archibald McKinnon and Flora Carmichael (aged 12 years, daughter of Procurator Fiscal Archibald Carmichael, Earnal).
Transcript of a police report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal charging Anne McInnes with the crime of theft, in July 1859. McInnes (Manal) admits to taking white worsted stockings belonging to Catherine Currie from the bleaching green at Moss.
Statements are provided by Archibald Currie (crofter, Moss) and Catherine Currie (sister of Archibald Currie, Moss).
Transcript of a police report accusing Lachlan McInnes of assault in October 1859. McInnes (seaman, Arinagour, Island of Coll) is accused of assaulting Archibald McNeil (mason, Breachacha, Island of Coll) at Beg Field near Fouterailt [?] Isle of Coll. The report is submitted by Finlay Fraser, police constable in Tiree. Statements are provided from:
Archibald McNeil (mason, Breachacha) Neil Galbreath (mason from Campbeltown, residing at Breachacha) John Kennedy (foreman, Breachacha) Robert Laird (gardener, Breachacha) John McPherson (son of Peter McPherson [Innkeeper], Arinagour parish, Coll)
