Transcript from a volume of Chamberlain`s Accounts in the Argyll Papers at Inverary Castle.
Rental of Tiree for 1743.
2003.108.1
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1999.191.15
Photocopied letter to the editor of the Times from the Duke of Argyll dated 27/7/1886.
Letter to the editor of the Times from the Duke of Argyll dated 27/7/1886 correcting an error in article which stated that notices of ejection were issued for non-payment of rent rather than because of violent seizure of land occupied by other tenants.
1999.191.16
Photocopied newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters.
newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters.
1999.191.17
Photocopied newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters.
Article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters and their impending arrest by Royal Marines.
1999.191.18.1
Photocopied newspaper article and letter about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters, 1886
Newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters, and letter to the editor from D. H. MacFarlane about the injustice of the Duke of Argyll`s policy of land consolidation which pushed smallholders of the land.
1999.191.19.1
Photocopied newspaper article and letter about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters, 1886
Newspaper article about the seizure of Greenhill by Tiree crofters and the arrival of the Royal Marines on board HMS Ajax in Oban, and letter to the editor from the Duke of Argyll disagreeing with point of view put by D. H. MacFarlane.
1999.191.20
Photocopied letter to the editor from D. H. MacFarlane about the Duke of Argyll`s policy of land consolidation.
Letter to the editor from D. H. MacFarlane in response to the Duke of Argyll`s letter to the editor of 31/7/1886.
1999.191.21
Photocopied newspaper article correcting an error in a letter to the editor from D. H. MacFarlane dated 6/8/1886.
Correction to letter from D. H. MacFarlane which should have read `six tenants paying over £2,600 and one over £1,200`.
1999.191.22
Photocopied newspaper article about the sale of the Tiree by the Duke of Argyll.
Tiree was offered for sale by auction by the Duke of Argyll but withdrawn when there were no bids.
1999.134.12
Rescue involving the crew of the ‘Duchess’
Transcription of a letter of 1868 from the Tiree factor John Geekie about a rescue involving the crew of the ‘Duchess’.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In a letter of 1868 to the 8th Duke of Argyll, his factor John Geekie commended eight Tiree men who had rescued three fishermen from drowning in Balephuil Bay during a gale. Two of the men were crew of the ‘Duchess’, built by the Duke in 1860 and let out to local men.
In May 1861 the factor had reported that ‘the crew of the Duchess fishing boat had a very good fishing…once they took courage and went out where the Tyree boats were fishing outside the light house’, the implication being that the crew were unnecessarily timid.
Their reluctance is easily explained by their lack of familiarity handling a vessel nearly twice the length of the average Tiree fishing boat and also by the dangers of fishing five or more miles from shore in a small sailing boat in the days before reliable weather forecasting and global positioning.