Order of Gaelic service held at Baugh Church during Feis Thiriodh on 9/7/1995.
Order of Gaelic service held at Baugh Church with Rev Jack MacArthur of Glasgow during Feis Thiriodh on 9/7/1995.
2003.76.9
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2003.70.2
Letter from Dr Boulind dated 4/4/2003 with an account of his time on Tiree.
Letter from Dr Boulind dated 4/4/2003 with an account of his time as a GP on Tiree from January 1985 to October 1986.
1999.269.2
Dr Alexander Buchanan
Photograph of Dr Alexander Buchanan, Medical Officer for Tiree 1860-1911.
Courtesy of Mr Hugh MacKinnon
In 1860 Dr. Alexander Buchanan, a 25 year old surgeon newly qualified from Edinburgh, was appointed Tiree’s Medical Officer. He was given the tenancy of Baugh farm as a living by the Duke of Argyll.
He married Colina Campbell, daughter of the tenant of Balephetrish farm, and the couple had six children. From a farming background himself, he was no doubt helped in the running of his 160 acre farm by his wife’s family.
Dr Buchanan worked until his death in 1911 aged 75. It was said his patients would feel better at the sound of his oilskins rustling. On his death a monument was erected on Cnoc Eibrig in Baugh to a ‘Medical officer and loved and valued friend of the islanders’.
Black and white photograph of Dr Alexander Buchanan, 1835-1911.
Dr Alexander Buchanan, 1835-1911, Medical Officer for Tiree from 1860 to his death in 1911.
1998.173.2
Photocopied extracts from `The Monthly Record of the Free Church of Scotland`.
Contributions received fromTiree in 1907 and 1908; article about communion and other services held in Tiree during 1908, some of which were held in the Baptist churches and in the Reading Room; obituary for elder Donald MacFadyen, Scarinish merchant, who died in 1912.
1998.170.13
Photocopied petition (undated) to the County Clerk from a group of Tiree residents.
Undated petition to Argyll County Council from a group of residents of Scarinish, Heanish and Baugh, all wanting to rent land under the Small Holdings Scotland Act of 1892.
1998.170.14
Photocopied petition dated 27/7/1893 to the Chairman of Argyll County Council from a group of Tiree cottars.
Petition dated 27/7/1893 to the Chairman of Argyll County Council from a group of cottars from Scarinish, Heanish and Baugh, all wanting to rent land under the Small Holdings Scotland Act of 1892.
1998.151.9
Lachlan MacQuarie’s letter of 1866
Transcription of Lachlan MacQuarie’s letter of 1866 to the Duke of Argyll about a summons of removing served on him in Baugh.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In 1860, Dr Alexander Buchanan was appointed Medical Officer for Tiree. He was encouraged by the Duke of Argyll who seems to have promised him the tenancy of Baugh Farm. Previously doctors had not stayed long in Tiree due to insufficient remuneration.
His arrival was fiercely opposed by the sitting tenant at Baugh, Lachlan MacQuarie. The latter wrote to the Duke accusing Dr Buchanan and the factor Mr Geekie of excessive drinking and setting a bad example to the islanders which had led to an outbreak of petty crime.
As well as maligning the doctor and the factor, MacQuarie questioned the Duke’s ability to judge character. His appeal was rejected and Dr. Buchanan settled down in Baugh Cottage on the site of the present kitchen of Baugh House.
1998.77.1
Newspaper article about Dr John Holliday ‘The Happiest Man in the World’.
Article about Dr John Holliday’s new post as Tiree’s GP in The Sunday Post, 1988.
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2003.35.2
Seven O/S maps with hand-drawn croft numbers and boundaries, 1977
Seven O/S maps with croft numbers and boundaries drawn in by donor`s sister, Mary Robertson: (1) sheet NL 93 NE Hynish and West Hynish, (2) sheet NL 94 NE Hough, Balevullin, Kilmoluaig, Cornaigmore, Cornaigbeg and Kenovay and boundaries of Croish, Cornaigmore Farm and Kilmoluaig common grazing, (3) sheet NL 94 SE Moss, Barrapol, Balephuil, Balemartine, Balinoe, Heylipol and Crossapol and boundaries of Kilmoluaig common grazing, Barrapol Farm and Heylipol Farm, (4) sheet NL 94 NW Hough and Balevullin, (5) sheet NL 94 SW Middleton, Sandaig and Kilkenneth, (6) sheet NM 04 NW Balephetrish, Scarinish, Gott, Kirkapol and Vaul and boundaries of Scarinish Farm and Balephetrish special common, (7) sheet NM 04 SW Baugh and Scarinish.
1998.44.1
Township history for Baugh researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about prominent people in Baugh – Dr Buchanan and the MacFarlane family – and about Port a` Mhulinn and the Poor House.