Information on Middleton, Sandaig, Kilkeneth and Greenhill by Hector MacPhail.
Township histories for Middleton, Sandaig, Kilkenneth and Greenhill by Hector MacPhail.
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1999.8.1
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1997.215.9
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXXVIII.
Map of the south-west area of Tiree at a scale of 6 inches to the mile (1:10,560).
1997.215.17
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXVIII.
Map of the south-west area of Tiree at a scale of 6 inches to the mile (1:10,560).
1997.214.17
Ordnance Survey map sheet LXVIII.1.
Map of the Middleton/Sandaig/Barrapol area at a scale of 25 inches to the mile (1:2,500).
2002.67.1
Colour scan of brass plate.
Colour scan of brass plate from the Glassary seaweed factory cart engraved `NORTH BRITISH CHEMICAL CO. LD. TYREE NO. 1`.
1999.11.9
Photocopied letter from Howe-Stanford to unknow recipient dated 3/7/1876.
Letter detailing conditions for lease on property for seaweed factory at Middleton.
1999.11.10
Photocopied letter from Edward C. C. Stanford to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, 26/1/1875.
Letter to the Duke of Argyll from Mr Stanford of British Seaweed Co Ltd., asking for a secretary of factor to be sent to witness the good done by the company in Tyree.
1999.11.11
Photocopied letter to Duke of Argyll from John M Geekie, 31/8/1872.
Letter detailing methods of payment of the Seaweed Company to their workforce, and their application for land to graze horses.
1997.54.1
Photocopied book extract `List of Inhabitants of Tyree and their Age in September 1779` edited by Eric Cregeen.
The inhabitants listed by township and family.
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1997.49.1
Petition from Poor Persons in Tyree for Aid to Emigrate
Transcription of a petition for assistance to emigrate appended to ‘Crofts and Farms in the Hebrides’ by the 8th Duke of Argyll.
This petition was sent in 1851 to Sir John MacNeill, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland. Sir John was married to a daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll, who appended the petition to his ‘Crofts and Farms in Hebrides’ addressed to the Napier Commission of 1883.
A hundred and thirty-six islanders signed the petition. Ninety-nine of them were landless cottars; the remainder were small tenants, of whom only four paid rent over £10 a year. They represented the class of islanders that the Duke was anxious to clear from his estate.
Around a third of the petitioners were given assistance to emigrate with their families on board the ‘Conrad’, ‘Birman’ and ‘Onyx’ in July 1851. Another twenty-seven families from the island left with them.