Copied title page and prize sticker on Gaelic book won by Janet Brown nee MacArthur in 1950.
Title page and prize sticker on Gaelic book `Am Fear-Ciuil` won by Janet Brown nee MacArthur for proficiency in Gaelic at Cornaigmore Junior Secondary School in 1950.
Copied school certificate of 1950 for Janet MacArthur.
School certificate for Janet Brown nee MacArthur dated 1960 and signed by headmaster Allan MacDougall.
Neil Brown and his wife Sarah Henderson in 1889
Photograph of Neil Brown and his wife Sarah Henderson in 1889.
Courtesy of Mrs Isabelle Carter
Neil Brown, who was born in Heylipol in 1819, emigrated to Canada with his twin brother Donald and five sisters in the late 1840s. Donald became ill, probably with ‘ship fever’ (typhus transmitted by body lice), and died on their arrival in Port Whitby, Ontario.
In 1858 Neil married Sarah Henderson from Nova Scotia. The couple had twelve children over the next nineteen years, including one set of twins: Mary (1859), Janet (1861), Katherine (1863), Margaret (1864), Donald (1866), Flora (1868), Sarah Ann (1870), Isabelle (1874,) Angus (1875) Christena and Phemma (1876), and John (1877). Donald, Phemma and John died before the age of four.
In common with many Scottish emigrants in the 19th century, the couple were deeply religious. Worship was held every day in their home. Sarah read the scripture then Neil led in prayer using the Gaelic tongue.
Black and white photograph of Neil Brown and his wife Sarah Henderson in 1889.
Neil Brown (1819-1905) and his wife Sarah Henderson (1835-1922) of Egmondville, Ontario in May 1889. Neil, who was born in Heylipol in 1819, was the son of Angus Brown and Mary MacArthur. He, his twin brother and five sisters emigrated to Canada with his twin brother Donald and five sisters in the late 1840s. Donald became ill, probably with `ship fever` (typhus transmitted by body lice), and died on their arrival in Port Whitby, Ontario. In 1858 Neil married Sarah Henderson from Nova Scotia. The couple had twelve children over the next nineteen years, including one set of twins. They were deeply religious and worship was held every day in their home. Sarah read the scripture then Neil led prayers in Gaelic.
Going to salute the flag at Island House
Photograph of Hugh MacDiarmid leading a group of people to salute the flag at Island House in 1920.
Courtesy of Mr John Watson
In this photograph taken in 1920, Hugh MacDiarmid is leading a large group of over a hundred men, women and children to salute the flag at Island House.
What the event was is uncertain but judging from other photographs in An Iodhlann’s collections, it was a day of celebration with a piper in attendance and a picnic for the children. Everyone is dressed in their best clothes, although some of the children have bare feet.
Originally from Perthshire, Hugh MacDiarmid was appointed sub-factor for Argyll Estates in Tiree after the retiral of John Campbell in 1876. He died in May 1928 at Island House aged eighty-two.
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacDiarmid at Island House in 1920.
Hugh MacDiarmid leads a large group of over a hundred men, women and children to salute the flag at Island House in 1920. What the event was is uncertain but judging from photograph C33, it was a day of celebration with a piper in attendance and a picnic for the children. Everyone is dressed in their best clothes, although some of the children have bare feet.
Originally from Perthshire, Hugh MacDiarmid was appointed sub-factor for Argyll Estates in Tiree after the retiral of John Campbell in 1876. He died in May 1928 at Island House aged eighty-two.
Card advertising `Chocolates and Charms`.
Card advertising `Chocolates and Charms` in Heylipol.
Black and white photograph of the wedding of Peter MacArthur of Heylipol and Flora MacKinnon of Dunmore, Vaul at the Alexandria Hotel, Glasgow on the 1st June 1914.
L-R: (back) unknown; unknown; unknown; unknown; unknown; Peter MacArthur (groom, aged 39); Duncan MacArthur (best man); Flora MacKinnon (bride, aged 36); Rev. T. MacPherson of Yoker Church of Scotland; unknown; unknown; Jessie MacArthur;
(front) Christina MacArthur (?); Jimmy MacArthur; Alexander MacArthur; Hugh MacArthur; Marion MacKinnon (bridesmaid); Charles MacKinnon; Maggie MacKinnon; Kate MacKinnon (Mrs Hugh Lamont); Mary Flora MacKinnon (Mrs Charles MacKinnon); unknown; unknown. (CD with scanned photo in Pedestal Unit drawer 2; photo key in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer4.)
Order of Service for hallowing the ship`s bell of HMS `Tiree`.
Order of Service for hallowing the ship`s bell of HMS `Tiree`, 1941-1960, held in Heylipol Church in May 1995.
Angus MacKechnie talking about mischief at school
Sound clip in English of Angus MacKechnie talking about the mischief he and his friends got up to on the way to Heylipol School in the 1950s and 60s.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacKechnie
Angus MacKechnie of Crossapol was recorded talking to Maggie Campbell of Kilmoluaig in October 2005 about his schooldays. He was strapped at school, deservedly so according to himself, for breaking the ceramic insulators on the telegraph poles on the road to Heylipol School.
This was a popular sport amongst schoolchildren, in Ruaig as well as Heylipol, and required accuracy in throwing stones. A boy’s reputation depended upon success, especially if the girls, who were guilty of the same activity, scored a direct hit.
Today Angus and his wife Nancy run one of the two school buses on the island and the popular Ring ‘n’ Ride service which provides transport on request. Angus also works crofts in Crossapol, Heylipol and Moss.
Mini-disk recording of Janet Brown, Balephuil talking to Maggie Campbell in August 2005.
Seònaid Brown née MacArthur of Balephuil talks to Maggie Campbell in August 2005 about her schooling at Heylipol during World War II and afterwards at Cornaig, her school clothes, lunches, games, her classes and teachers, school discipline, evacuees and tinkers, Christmas parties, transport to school, ministers and childhood illnesses.
Mini-disk recording of Alasdair MacArthur, Balemartine talking to Maggie Campbell in May 2005.
Alasdair MacArthur (Alasdair Sheumais Alasdair) of Balemartine talks to Maggie Campbell in May 2005 about his life both at sea and on land, his time on the ferry ‘The Heb’ and how he progressed to achieve honorary seaman status.
