Paperback book `Far Off In Sunlit Places` by Jim Hewitson.
Stories of the Scots in Australia and New Zealand.
1998.320.33
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2000.50.5
Paperback book `The Mobile Scot` by Jeanette M. Brock.
A study of Scottish emigration and migration 1861-1911based on a thesis which won the Hume Brown prize for Scottish history.
2001.87.9
Paperback book `The Highland Clearances` by Eric Richards.
An account of the origins of the Clearances in the 18th century, the crofting legislation of the 1880s and how the the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.
2001.98.1
Photocopied letter dated 11/5/1910 from Darah Lamont of Ruaig about his family tree.
Letter dated 11/5/1910 from Darah (Donald) Lamont of Ruaig to his cousin James Stuart MacFadyen at Blair Atholl Manse about their family, some in Australia and the USA.
2004.13.3
Hardback book `Adventurers & Exiles` by Marjory Harper.
Comprehensive account of the `Great Exodus` in the century before WWI when two million men women and children left Scotland for a new life overseas.
2001.49.14
Photocopied newspaper article about Tiree.
Local news about the visit from H. Cameron from Queensland, Australia whose mother came from Tiree, the AGM of the Scarinish Library Committee held in the Reading Room and the exam results at Cornaigmore School.
2004.11.2
Copied photograph of Captain John MacLean of Cornaigbeg.
Captain John MacLean of Cornaigbeg who gained his captain`s certificate in Melbourne, Australia on 27/8/1913. (Copy of information on back of photograph in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 3)
2001.12.8
Photocopied, short biography of Captain James Campbell (1900-1978), Tiree, and the sinking of the `MacDhui`.
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2001.12.3
Photocopy of an Australian certificate of exemption from pilotage dues dated 1935.
Certificate of exemption from pilotage dues made out to James Campbell for the port of Cairns in Queensland, Australia dated 1935.
2000.83.10
Black and white photograph of Donald Kennedy of Moss.
Donald Kennedy of Moss in the late 1930s. He settled in Australia then moved to New Zealand.
