Photocopied book extract `Tiree Tales` by Lord Archibald Campbell from `Records of Argyll`, pp vii-x, 249-264.
Tales collected from Tiree people and translated into English with an introduction by Lord Archibald Campbell.
2003.130.15
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2003.119.2
Audio cassette recording of Angus MacFarlane and Willie Robertson interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll Hotel on 10/7/2003.
(Continued from AC234) Willie Robertson of Coll talks to Maggie Campbell in July 2003 about peat-cutting when it was done by hand with the help of a horse, coffin making, caithris na h-oidhche and funerals on Coll, past and present. (Tape 2 documented on E00519)
(A leantainn air fo AC235) Mairead Chaimbeul air Colla anns an t- Iuchair 2003 a bruidhinn ri Uilleam MacDhonnchaidh mu dheidhinn gearradh mòine – nuair a bha seo air a dhèanamh le làimh, deànamh cisteachan-laighe, caithris na h-oidhche, agus dòighean tiodhlacaidh air Colla fo chionn fhada co-shamhlachadh ri dòighean an là an-diugh.
1999.67.5
Record of Interment for Soroby graveyard from 21/9/1943 to 20/8/1944.
Record of Interment for Soroby graveyard from 21/9/1943 to 20/8/1944.
2003.86.2
Transcription of the gravestones in MacIntyre Old Pioneer Cemetery in Grey County, Ontario.
Transcription of the gravestones in MacIntyre Old Pioneer Cemetery in MacIntyre`s Corner, Grey County, Ontario.
2003.86.3
Transcription of a gravestone in Auld Kirkyard Fergus, Wellington County, Ontario.
Transcription of a gravestone in Auld Kirkyard Fergus, Wellington County, Ontario in memory of Flora MacDonald 1804-1852, wife of John MacLean, a native of Tiree.
2003.69.1
Booklet `Altera Merces`.
List of gravestone inscriptions in Pennygown, Gruline, Knock and Cill an Alein in North Mull.
1998.197.4
Resolution against drinking ardent spirits at funerals
Transcription of a resolution by the minister and Parishioners of Tiree against drinking ardent spirits at funerals.
Courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Argyll
In ‘The Statistical of Account of Scotland’ published in 1845, the minister of Tiree, Rev. Neil MacLean, wrote condemning the practice of ‘drinking ardent spirits at funerals’ and of ‘poor families parting with their last horse or cow, to furnish entertainment of this kind.’
This Resolution of 1847 called on like-minded parishioners to abstain from drinking more than one glassful of spirits at funerals or to pay a penalty of five pounds to benefit the poor of the parish. Rev. MacLean successfully sought the backing of the Duke of Argyll.
In November 1855, the Tiree factor, Lachlan MacQuarie, issued a notice prohibiting the consumption of spirits at ‘weddings, balls, funerals or any other gathering’ by tenants paying less than £30 rent, on pain of dispossession of their lands.
1998.199.6
Colour photograph of the gravestone of Lord Bannerman of Kildonan.
The gravestone of Lord Bannerman of Kildonan. Lord Bannerman spent his school holidays in Tiree with his grandfather and Aunt Flora at Ard Deas, Caoles. His daughter, Ray Michie, was Liberal MP for Argyll & Bute 1987-2001.
1998.182.7
Photocopied page of newspaper cuttings about the clippers `Taeping`, `Ariel` and `Serica`, and the China Tea Race of 1866.
(1) Letter to the editor of the Glasgow Herald, 1963, by Donald B MacCulloch of Glasgow, about the cause of death of the Taeping`s captain, Donald MacKinnon, and other information about his family. Letter to the editor of the Glasgow Herald by John Graham of Troon with extracts from the logs of the `Taeping`, `Ariel` and `Serica`, and other information about the tea clippers. (2) Article in the Glasgow Herald, 1963, about about The Great China Tea Clipper Race of 1866 won by Captain Donald MacKinnon of Heanish. (3) Oban Times article of 13/5/1965 about the China Clipper Race of 1886 by Neil Brown.
2003.46.1
Booklet `1935-1945 The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire`.
Register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 war and are buried in cemeteries in Argyll, Bute and Inverness.