Book ‘Carmina Gadelica – Ortha nan Gaidheal, Vol. II’ of hymns and incantations from the highlands and islands of Scotland, translated into English by Alexander Carmichael, 1900.
1999.207.2
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1999.207.1
Book ‘Carmina Gadelica – Ortha nan Gaidheal, Vol. I’ of hymns and incantations from the highlands and islands of Scotland, translated into English by Alexander Carmichael, 1900. Signed by the author on the inside front cover in fountain pen “To Mr Kenneth MacLeod with the ???? love of Alexander Carmichael, Edinburgh, Latha Bealltain, 1907”.
2016.48.1
Copy of the death certificate of James Smith, Kilmarnock, who died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident while working at Tiree airport in 1956.
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2016.26.2
Copy of the death certificate of Hector Cameron, Balephuil (1836-1883), who emigrated to Canada in the early 1860s with is brother Donald Cameron. Hector is buried at Belsyde Cemetery, Fergus, Ontario.
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2016.22.5
Death certificate for Hugh MacArthur, Tullymet, Gott/Scarinish (1892-1988). Hugh died in Dalintart Hospital, Oban.
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2015.38.3
Handwritten death notice for Alex Kennedy, Balevullin, for submission to the Oban Times newspaper in 1967.
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2006.136.1
Colour photograph of the grave of Donaldina MacLean, Tiree, in the Australian outback near Charleville in Queensland.
Courtesy of Mr Chris Hurst
A few years ago, four friends on a trip in central Queensland came across a grave near Charleville. The inscription on the headstone reads: ‘In loving memory of Donaldina McLean only daughter of Dugald and Mary McKinnon Born on the Island of Tiree Argyleshire Scotland November 30th 1880 Died May 1st 1886 Aged 5 years and 3 months.’
According to local knowledge, the child was restless and crying, and the parents attended to her several times during the night. In the morning they found the girl dead with a snake in her bedclothes. She had been bitten several times.
Isolated graves like these are not uncommon in the outback, a testament to the hardships and tragedies endured by the early settlers.