Township history for Gott and Earnal researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about prominent families in Gott and Earnal – MacLeans, MacKinnons, MacIntyres and MacDonalds.
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1998.44.4
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1998.44.7
Township history for Heanish researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about the MacKinnons in Heanish.
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1998.36.10
Photocopied tribute to Rev. Hector MacKinnon by Rev. A. M. MacLean in 1913.
Transcript of the tribute to the Rev. Hector MacKinnon from Kirkapol by Rev. A. M. MacLean in Pailey Abbey on 11/2/1913.
1998.36.14
Photocopied letter from Rev. Hector MacKinnon to his mother dated 16/2/1912.
Letter from Rev. Hector MacKinnon of Shettleston to his mother at Lodge Farm, Kirkapol dated 16/2/1912, a year before his death.
1998.31.1
Photocopied booklet `MacAidh Thiridhe` by elder Norman MacDonald
Book about United Free Church minister Donald MacKay who served Tiree for 29 years between 1882 and 1911. The church is now Kirkapol Guest House and the manse Taigh a` Ruadh.
1998.34.1
Photocopied extract from `Fast Ecclesiae Scoticanae`, Vols IV and VIII.
Extracts from `The succesion of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation`, Vol IV, `The Synods of Argyll, Perth and Stirling`, pp 108-110; Vol VIII `Addenda & Corregenda 1506-1949`, pp 330-340.
1998.35.1
Photocopied newspaper cutting about the Rev. Hector MacKinnonof Kirkapol.
Article about Hector MacKinnon from Kirkapol who ministered in Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow.
1998.27.6
Photocopied letter from M MacArthur, Middleton dated 4/5/1950.
Letter from M. MacArthur, Middleton dated 4/5/1950 with a short history of the church in Tiree and a list of ministers from 1676 to 1917.
1999.117.19
Black and white photograph of a newspaper cutting about Rev. Hector Cameron.
Newspaper cutting about the Rev. Hector Cameron (1880-1940), born in Cornaigmore, a Gaelic scholar, editor of the `Tiree Bards` and author of `The Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree`.
1999.117.27
Rev. Archibald Farquharson
Photograph of the Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878
Courtesy of Mr Reg Knapman
Archibald Farquharson was born in 1800 at Moulin in Perthshire. He underwent a religious conversion in 1818, influenced by his older brother who later became a Church of Scotland minister. After working some years as a gamekeeper, he left for Glasgow to study at the University and Theological College.
In 1831 he was sent to Tiree as an Independent missionary and the following year moved there with his wife Mary MacDonald and their two young daughters, Eliza and Isabella. Seven weeks later his wife died. Despite this, he determined to stay in Tiree for the rest of his life.
The Independent Church in Tiree was established in 1832 and over the next three years chapels were erected at Cornaig and Ruaig. On average 100 to 200 worshippers would attend his services although in 1840 only 54 were true Congregationalists.
Black and white photograph of Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878.
Rev. Archibald Farquharson, Congregational minister in Tiree 1832-1878.