Hardback book `From Clan to Regiment – Six Hundred Years in the Hebrides 1400-2000` by Nicholas MacLean-Bristol.
A History of the MacLeans of Coll.
2008.74.1
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2008.51.8
Printout of a scanned postcard postmarked 1916 from nurse Elizabeth MacKinnon, granddaughter of Fingon MacKinnon to her aunt Christie in Canada, plus a short biography of Elizabeth`s life.
2007.83.1
Letter dated 19/12/2002 from John Kirk about Colin Cameron.
Letter dated 19/12/2002 from John Kirk about Colin Cameron, the half-brother of Iain MacKinnon (Iain Aoghais). Colin was also a half-brother of Lachie Cameron, Balevullin.
2007.77.1
Minidisk recording of Hugh MacLeod of Cornaigbeg talking to Maggie Campbell on 15/5/2007.
Hugh MacLeod of Cornaigbeg talks to Maggie Campbell in May 2007 about the MacInnes family of Kilmoluaig who left the island because there was not enough work for the father, Donald MacInnes, who was a tailor.
2007.58.1
Photocopy of book `Who Knows?` by Ethel MacCallum.
Autobiography of Ethel MacCallum nee Woods.
2007.54.1
Photocopied extract from `Sermons by the late Rev. Neil McKinnon` edited by Rev. Dugald Currie.
Biographical sketch of Rev Neil MacKinnon from Baugh.
2007.53.1
Copied newspaper clipping about Hugh MacFadyen.
Newspaper clipping about the death of Hugh MacFadyen of Kirkapol (Cathy MacNeill`s maternal uncle). He was the Chief Officer of the Canadian National Steamships and died unexpectedly aged forty-three. The four sisters in Scotland mentioned in the article were Kate (Cathy`s mother), Janet, Effy and Hughina (who married a Carmichael); the two brothers were Lachie and John. Cathy`s grandmother Isabel MacFadyen came from Kirkapol and moved to Baile Mhic Eoghainn when she married joiner Lachie MacFadyen. Effy Low, a cousin of Cathy`s mother, married Peter Anderson, the gamekeeper. Effy was a sister of Hugh Alexander Low.
2006.95.1
Copied autobiography of Lachlin MacKinnon sent by Ann Kemp.
Autobiography of Lachlin MacKinnon, grandson of Donald MacKinnon and Annabella MacLean who were married on 24th February 1830 in Tiree. Donald and Annabella emigrated to Ontario with their children some time between 1842 and 1851.
2006.79.2
Composition `The Crofter`s Daughter` by Gene Lamont.
Biography of Sarah MacDonald (1838-1916), the daughter of Archibald MacDonald and Isabella MacFayen of Caoles.
2006.80.2
Composition `Leaving Home` by Keith Dash and Barbara Hall.
An account of the emigration of John MacDonald (1809-1888) and his family from Balinoe to Australia.