Black & white photograph of boatswain/bosun Neil MacArthur, Balephuil, in uniform on a ship around 1960.
2016.53.10
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2016.53.9
Black & white photograph of a group of six young men, including Neil Sinclair of Balephuil (4th from left) on the sea, around 1955. The identities of the other men are unknown.
2016.53.1
Collection of 26 photographic prints of the Sinclair family of Main Road, Balephuil, ca 1930-1970. The Sinclairs were on the donor’s father’s side of the family and include Johnsons and MacArthurs. His mother’s side of the family were MacKinnons of Adavale, Heanish. Seventeen of the photographs are accessioned separately as 2016.53.2~18.
2016.49.1
Bound list of Tiree Merchant Seaman Records compiled by John MacLean, Clydebank, in May 2012. Includes (a) a printed extract from the Register of Seamen’s Tickets 1845-1854 (BT113) held at the National Archives in Kew, listing ticket numbers, seaman’s first and last names, place and date born, first date at sea and designation (post held), age, and ticket details, (b) a list of Tiree Mariners 1848-1920 including ship’s name, mariner’s first and last names, age, birth place, current address, designation, voyage, and previous ship. See also 2010.53.14
2009.89.9
Black & white photograph of Alexander Lamont, Balemartine, in naval uniform, aged 19 years, around 1917.
2016.30.3
Black & white potrait photograph on a postcard of Lachlan Campbell, Corrairigh, Cornaigbeg, in sailor’s uniform around 1940. On the reverse, the enlarger has written tinting notes: “? ?, light brown hair, light blue/grey eyes” and “Geo Paterson, Crossipool, Tiree”.
2016.23.1
Pen-knife style cutlery set of knife, fork and spoon, issued to Royal Navy sailors during the First World War.
2016.6.4
Letter from Charles MacLean, Edinburgh, to Duncan Gillespie, Gott, dated 2006, regarding enclosed texts and information about Charles’ 4x great grandfather Donald ‘The Pilot’ MacLean, Ruaig (born 1727), who piloted the French ship sent to rescue Bonnie Prince Charlie after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
2016.6.2
Photocopy of a typed account of the Donald ‘The Pilot’ MacLean story published by his descendent (4x great grandson), Charles MacLean, Edinburgh, in the Clan MacLean magazine around 1986. The account is based on Charles’ great-great-grandfather’s hand-written account of the event written around 1900 (see 2016.6.1), and includes notes and analyses of the handwritten account.
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2016.6.1
Photocopy of a hand-written account of the story of Donald ‘The Pilot’ MacLean, Ruaig (born 1727), who piloted Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rescue ship after the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The seven-page letter was written on small pieces of paper around 1900 by Donald’s grandson, also Donald MacLean (1817-1907), who lived at Hynish House. It begins “the following is what report I heard from my father over 70 years ago”.
