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2021.54.20

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Transcript of a report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal regarding an assault in Achadaphail farm, Ardtun, on the Isle of Mull in September 1859. Peggy or Margaret Morrison is accused of attacking Mary Campbell with a pair of iron tongs and using profane and ‘unbecoming’ language against her.

Statements are provided from:

Mary Campbell (servant to and residing with Donald McGillvray at Auchadafail farm, originally from Gortendonald in Tiree)
Julian McFadyen or McGillvray (wife of Donald McGillvray, drover and crofter, Acadaphail farm, Ardtun)
John Macfarlane (Police Constable, Bunessan)
Allan Cameron (Sergeant of Police, Tobermory)
John McNab (Doctor, Bunessan)
Peggy or Margaret Morrison (Achadaphail farm, Ardtun)

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.54.19

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Transcript of a Police Report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal by Finlay Fraser, (Detective Constable) regarding the sudden death of Archibald McDonald at Heanish in August 1859. McDonald, died near ‘Reef Cottage’ while walking home from Heanish with his son, Lachlan McDonald.

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.54.18

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Transcript of Inventory of Precognition against John McMillan and Donald MacPhail on charges of Housebreaking and Theft at the house of Niel Kennedy at Balevullin in December 1859. £10 was stolen from Kennedy’s house during the burglary.

Statements are provided by:

Henry Nisbet (Tobermory Procurator Fiscal)
John MacMillan (fisherman, Balevullin)
Niel Kennedy (fisherman, Balevullin)
Donald Cameron (boatman, Kilmoluaig)
Niel Kennedy (police constable, Balevullin)
John Kennedy (Balevullin)
Donald McPhail (fisherman, Kilmoluaig)
Mary Maclean or McKinnon (wife of Donald McKinnon, Balevullin)
Marion Cameron or McMillan (wife of John McMillan, Balevullin)
Catherine Maclean (sister of Mary Maclean, Scarinish)
Archibald McMillan (son of John McMillan, Balevullin)
Peter Macdonald (teacher, Balevullin)
Donald Lamont (cottar, Balevullin)
Flora McLean or McMillan (wife of Niel McMillan, Balevullin)
Archibald Cameron (fisherman, Balevullin)
Donald Maclean (tenant, Scarinish)
Finlay Fraser (police constable, Scarinish)
Dugald MacCallum (Kilmoluaig)
Allan Cameron (sergeant of police, Tobermory)

Many of the statements were originally given in Gaelic but are transcribed in English. William Robertson, Esquire Sheriff Substitute of Argyllshire, writes that John McMillan’s statement was given in the Gaelic language and translated into English by the Judge Examiner, and then read back to the defendant in Gaelic.

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2021.54.16

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Transcript of the Precognition of Witnesses regarding the sudden death of Helen Paterson or MacQuarrie (Arinagour, Coll) in May 1859. MacQuarrie died following a day planting potatoes and moving sea-ware. Statements are provided by:

Margaret MacQuarrie or MacFadyen (daughter of deceased, Arinagour, Coll)
Catherine MacKinnon or Macphail (widow, Arinagour, Coll)
Christina MacKinnon or MacQuarie (daughter in law of deceased, wife of Hector MacQuarie, Arinagour, Coll)
Malcolm Macdonald (merchant, Arinagour, Coll)
Duncan McColl (surgeon, Salen, Mull)

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From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.54.15

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Transcript of a report submitted to Henry Nisbet, Tobermory Procurator Fiscal, regarding the murder of Jean MacDonald or Seaton by her husband Hector MacDonald in Kirkapol in 1857. Statements are provided by Archibald Brown (crofter, Balephuil), William McLeod [?, Registrar] and Lachlan MacQuarie (Island House).

The beginning of the statement by the Medical Examiner is missing.

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2021.54.14

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Transcript of a report submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal charging Donald McKenzie (Coll) with assault in March 1857. McKenzie is accused of assaulting John Murdoch (Captain of the yacht Davor), after leaving the Inn at Arinagour, Coll. Statements are provided by John McPherson (residing with Peter McPherson, Coll Inn) and Lachlan Johnston (ground officer, Coll).

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2021.54.13

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Transcript of a letter sent to Henry Nisbet, Tobermory Procurator Fiscal, from William Wilson (Registrar, Tiree) dated 11 March 1857. Wilson writes to report the deaths of three Tiree men – Lachlan MacDonald (crofter, Caolas), John MacDonald (farm servant, Caolas) and Hector MacDonald (fisherman, Caolas) – when a fishing skiff capsized two miles off the south coast of Coll on 3 March 1857.

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2021.54.12

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Transcript of a petition submitted to Henry Nisbet Procurator Fiscal against John McKinnon in 1857. McKinnon is accused of culpable homicide in childbirth. The transript gives details of how McKinnon assisted Margaret McKinnon or Lamont (wife of Lachlan Lamond, Vaul) in childbirth, and is accused of causing her death. An extract from the Register of Deaths of the entry of the death of Margaret McKinnon or Lamont is provided by Malcolm Livingston (Parochial Teacher and Registrar, Kirkapoll).

Statements are provided from:

John McKinnon (a Beadle or Bellman, Clabbach, Coll)
Lachlan Lamont (husband of deceased – Cottar and Seaman, Vaul),
Lachlan McKinnon (brother of deceased – Crofter, Vaul)
Charles McKinnon (brother of deceased – Crofter or Labourer, Vaul)
Catherine McLean or Hart (wife of John Hart, Vaul)
Margaret McNeill (wife of Malcolm McNeill [Inspector of Poor], Vaul)
Mary Macdonald or McLean (wife of Hector Maclean, Salum)
Catherine McKinnon (daughter of Ann MacInnes or McKinnon, Vaul)
Jessie MacLean (wife of John McLean, Caoles)

This record contains extensive descriptions of the attempts to deliver Margaret McKinnon or Lamont of her child, and of the interventions and instrumentation used by John McKinnon. A copy of this transcript is not available online. Please contact An Iodhlann if you would like to consult this record.

From the liveArgyll Archives in Lochgilphead, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

 

2021.54.11

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Transcript of a Police Report of an assault at Kenloch [Kinloch] charging Coll McDonald (Labourer or Lobster Fisher, Kinloch) with assault. McDonald is accused of attacking Hector Campbell in a dispute over a spade in October 1856. Statements are provided by Hector Campbell and Alexander McLean (Servant to Peter McNair InnKeeper, Kinloch).

A note in the margin contains a list of names and some references to cases presumably submitted to Tobermory Procurator Fiscal. One of these reads ‘Death Arch[ibald] McLean, Tyree’.

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2021.54.10

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Transcript of a Precognition of Witnesses against John MacKinnon (Kilmoluaig) on charges of housebreaking and theft of a sheep in December 1856.

Statements are provided by: John MacDougall (Shepherd, Island House), Dugald MacCallum (Constable, Kilmoluaig), Hugh Maclean (Cornaigbeg), Lachlan Macquarie (Clerk, Heylipol) and Allan Cameron (Sheriff Officer, Tobermory).

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