Appendix C: Report by Duncan Forbes of Culloden to Duke of Argyll 1737, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”
Printout of Appendix C: Report by Duncan Forbes of Culloden to Duke of Argyll 1737, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. Report to the Duke of Argyll concerning Duncan Forbes` visit to mainland Argyll and its islands, the tenants, crofters and tacksmen that he met and their attitude to taxes etc.
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Appendix E: Gross sales from Tiree farms 1793-1794, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”
Printout of Appendix E: Gross sales from Tiree farms 1793-1794, from “Tiree – an unauthorised biography”. List of the gross sales from the different farms in Tiree according to the average of the past two years (1793-1794). Lists no. of tenants, mail-lands, name of farm, gross sales, rent paid/due, and total revenue from sales per product type.
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Copy of a croft rent receipt made out to Mr Neil MacKinnon, Balevullin 4, for £2. Paid on Whitsunday 1953. Received by Iain MacKinnon, Factor, Tiree. Shows blue two pence stamp.
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Collection of six receipts from the United Free Church, Scarinish, 1930-33
Two Argyll Estate receipts for feu-duty dated 1930 made out to the United Free Church in Scarinish and Balinoe, and four receipts dated 1933 made out to the Tiree congregation of the United Free Church.
Collection of rent receipts for Lodge Farm, Kirkapol from 1928 to 1955.
Collection of rent receipts for Lodge Farm, Kirkapol paid by John MacKinnon between 1928 and 1955; notice of a rent increase in 1954.
Collection of rent receipts for Lodge Farm, Kirkapol from 1956 to 1967.
Collection of rent receipts for Lodge Farm, Kirkapol paid by Elsie MacKinnon between 1956 and 1967.
Transcript from a volume of Chamberlain`s Accounts in the Argyll Papers at Inverary Castle.
Rental of Tiree for 1743.
Photocopied extracts from Argyll Estates Tiree Rent Ledger for Cornaig mill in 1828, 1833, 1849-1852.
Documents showing rental and arrears for Cornaig mill in 1828, 1833 and 1849-52.
Photocopied extract from Argyll Estates Tiree Setts with rentals for Cornaigmore and Cornaigbeg in 1862.
Extract from Argyll Estates Tiree Setts with rentals for Cornaigmore and Cornaigbeg in 1862.
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.
