Family tree for Donald Brown of Tiree and Australia (1864-1947). Donald emigrated to Yeppoon, Australia, as a young man in 1886. His parents were Hugh Brown and Anne Kennedy of Moss. The family tree traces Donald’s ancestors back to Rory Grahame and Marion MacDonald, who were married in Tiree in 1774, and includes family names Beaton, Kennedy, Cameron and MacDonald.
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Audio cassette recording of a BBC Scotland radio interview, 1988, with Dr John Holliday on being a doctor on Tiree and with Aborigines in Australia.
Photocopies of a series of around 80 long and detailed typed letters (one handwritten) from artist Duncan MacGregor Whyte to his wife, Mary Barnard, and his son, Tearlach, during his travels, from boarding the steamship ‘Caledonia’ in Nov. 1911, across Canada in 1912-13, sailing to Australia via Hawaii in 1913, and around Australia in 1913-1919. In the letters, DMcGW describes his journeys, the people he meets and the paintings he produces. He frequently refers to the Gaelic language and Tiree, where he built The Studio at Balephuil.
Poem ‘The Sail Weaver’ by Michele Fermanis-Winward, 2017, inspired by the stories of emigration from the Scottish Islands to the New World. The poet’s four-times great grandmother was Mary (McKinnon) MacLean of Tiree, born 1796, and the subject of the poem. Keith Dash (Australia), Mary MacLean (Scarinish) and John Holliday (Balephuil) are mentioned in the acknowledgements.
Colour photograph of the MacLean family of Australia in around 1995. They were originally from Cornaigbeg. L-R (oldest to youngest): John MacLean (b. 12/10/1916), Margaret MacLean (b. 25/3/1919), Dorothy MacLean (b. 26/10/1922), Jean MacLean (b. 12/1/1925), Valerie MacLean (b. 23/7/1926).
Emailed information from Robyn Wiggs (Mackay), Australia, to Keith Dash, Australia, about Robyn’s ancestor Captain Colin Mackay (1839-1889) who was the Chief Constable of Argyllshire during the Crofter’s War of 1886, and who led the police expedition to quell the uprising on Tiree.
Extract: “… pertaining to the Crofter’s War 1886 which gives my great grandfather, Captain Colin Mackay, Chief Constable of Argyllshire, as the leader of the police expedition at that time. I know he died 17 September 1889, Cormly/Comly? Building Lochgilphead, Argyll. He is buried Achnabreac Cemetery Argyll. … indicate he was a serving member of the Police at the time of his death… His headstone was erected by the members of the constabulary… His widow, Susan Mackay (Whyte/White), with their children immigrated to Australia to join their eldest son. From there our family continues.”
Studio portrait photograph of an unidentified soldier in Australian army uniform from the MacDonald/Campbell/Brown family of Mannal, taken in Edinburgh between 1880 and 1920. From a collection from Mannal House.
Studio portrait photograph of three unidentified men, probably brothers, from the MacDonald/Campbell/Brown family of Mannal, taken in Sydney, Australia, between 1880 and 1920. From a collection from Mannal House.
Memorial card made in Sydney, Australia, for Archibald Campbell, Mannal (1871-1899), brother of Colin Campbell. From an album found in Mannal House (2015.55.3).
Information about three Australian RAAF servicemen serving on Tiree during WWII
Information about three Australian RAAF servicemen who died in 1944, along with 13 others, when the Halifax aircraft they were flying in collided with another during training over Tiree: William Arthur Graham, Thomas Stephens and John Alexander Peterson.
