Photograph of a stone marked with a cross at Croish
Colour photograph of a large stone marked with a cross that lies at the side of the road near the Milton road junction at Caoles. The stone was moved there from its original position by the old cemetery in the stackyard of Croish House, 300m to the southwest.
Photograph of a stone marked with a cross at Caoles
Colour photograph of a large stone marked with a cross lying by a fence post at the side of the road near the Milton road junction at Caoles. The stone was moved there from its original position by the old cemetery in the stackyard of Croish House, 300m to the southwest.
Photograph of the grave markers of the crew of HMS Sturdy ca 1940
Black & white photograph of the temporary grave markers in Soroby Cemetery of the five crewmen of HMS Sturdy that died when their ship ran onto rocks at Sandaig in 1940.
List of Tiree-related archival items, 2012
Printed compiled list of archival items using `Tiree` as the search term from an unknown source. The list includes items from several different archives and may have been created from the CommunityArchives.org website.
Papers about mid-air collision of RAF planes over Tiree in 1944
Photocopied collection of various letters, documents, articles and telegrams, regarding Flying Officer Kenneth William Organ, who was one of 16 RAF flight crew who died when two Halifax aircraft of 518 Squadron (Met Obs) collided over Tiree in August 1944. Collection includes: (1) photograph of aircraft (same as photo R153), (2) telegram from 518 Sqn to Dora Organ (wife) informing of death, (3) telegram to wife re funeral arrangements, (4) letter to wife re death, (5) notice of sympathy to wife from Buckingham Palace, (6) commemorative scroll `FO K W Organ RAF`, (7) memorial page for KW Organ from Common Wealth Graves Commission website, (8) `An Investigation of the Air Tests which terminated in a mid-air collision between Halifax M/518 (LL186) and Halifax S/518 (LL296) RAF Tiree – 16 August 1944` by PG Rackliffe, (9) article about 518 Squadron compiled by Geoff Pringle in 2003, (10) extract titled `Of Sea and Sky` from unknamed book about Halifax aircraft and the Meterological Observers. (given to Dr Holliday by the deceased`s son – Ken Organ)
(4) letter to Mrs Organ. Image added to website August 2024
Map of Soroby cemetery 2012
Original hand-drawn map of the locations of all grave markers in the old sections of Soroby Cemetery. Researched and produced by Catriona Smyth as part of a contract with An Iodhlann to chart and photograph the headstones in Soroby Cemetery. Accompanied by a digital copy printed on hard board (2013.1.2) and a database of photographs and transcriptions of the headstones.
Map of Soroby cemetery
Hand-drawn map of the locations of all grave markers in the old sections of Soroby Cemetery digitised and printed onto hard board. Accompanied by a database of photographs and transcriptions of the headstones.
Printed version of Soroby Graveyard inscriptions 2012
Bound booklet of Catriona Smyth`s printed spreadsheet of gravestone inscriptions in the old section of Soroby Cemetery, with numbered references to her map of the cemetery produced in 2012.
Information about the death of Captain Donald MacKinnon, Heanish, in 1867
Printed email about the death of Captain Donald MacKinnon (1827-1867), Heanish, in Cape Town in 1867. Cpt. MacKinnon was the captain of the `Taeping` that won the Great China Tea Race in 1866. After returning to Tiree, he was on a passenger and livestock steamer between Tiree and Mull, to join his ship in London for China, when rough seas caused the cattle to panic. Cpt MacKinnon helped to throw the cattle overboard (to save the ship) but was gored in the stomach in doing so. His recurring illness (probably septicemia) forced his ship to dock in Cape Town where he was hospitalised and then died. He is buried in Cape Town. Request for information about his grave-site from Angus MacKinnon to Cape Town authorities.
Collection of documents, histories, drawings and photographs relating to the Galbraith/MacDonald family of Balevullin and Kilmoluaig
Copies of a collection of official documents, family tree, history, hand-drawings and photographs relating to the Galbraith family of Balevullin, and the MacDonald family of Kilmoluaig, 1821-2009. James Galbraith (1821-1903) was born in Gigha, and came to Tiree from Rothiemurchus, near Aviemore, with his wife and children in 1874 to take up the position of School Master of the Parochial School at Balevullin. The factor relocated the MacLeod family to Kilmoluaig to make way for him. His third daughter Janet Wotherspoon Galbraith (b. 1872) married Donald MacDonald of Kilmoluaig in 1905. She drowned at Loch Bhasapol aged 64. Items include: a short biography of Sarah Grant Galbraith m.Donald (1886-1917) by Erica McKellar, extracts of census/birth/marriage/death records for Sarah Galbraith (1868-), John MacDonald, Cornaigmore (1869-), Mary Galbraith, Balevullin (1869-), Donald MacDonald, Kilmoluaig (1865-), Janet Galbraith, Balevullin (1874-), Angus MacDonald, Kilmoluaig (1909-), Jessie Wotherspoon MacDonald, Balevullin (1898), Mary MacDonald, Heylipol (1882-), Mary Flora MacDonald, Kilmoluaig (1910-1969), James Galbraith MacDonald, Balevullin (1908-). Report from the Sheriff Court, Oban, and correspondence between Argyll Estate, Sarah Galbraith and her solicitors regarding the legal title to the Galbraith croft at Balevullin, 1903-1913. Rental receipts for the croft at Balevullin 1907-1909, family tree for the descendants of Janet Wotherspoon & James Galbraith, hand-drawings of headstones at Soroby Cemetry and the location of the wreck of the `Vivo` by James Galbraith, transcript of the headstone for Hector, Sarah and Malcolm Smith 1835-1900, telegraph message regarding the death of James Galbraith`s `Uncle Archie` 1907. Family tree and notes for the Wotherspoon family genealogy. Information for 19 photographs.
