Black and white photograph of John Gillies, Church of Scotland missionary.
John Gillies, Church of Scotland missionary, with his collie Skye in the early 1950s.
2003.186.2
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1999.118.2
Laser print of photograph of a stone cross from Kilkenneth Chapel.
photograph of a stone cross from Kilkenneth Chapel, now missing..
1998.176.10
Black and white photograph of Archie and Fileag MacEachern in Harris in the 1920s.
Leverburgh Sunday School in Harris in the 1920s (see Y79). Flora (Fileag) and blacksmith Archie MacEachern from Creag Mhor, Cornaigbeg are on the extreme left.
1998.176.11
Archie MacEachern and his sister Fileag in Harris
Photograph of blacksmith Archie MacEachern and his sister Fileag at Leverburgh Sunday School in Harris in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Brady
In this photograph taken at Leverburgh Sunday School in Harris in the 1920s, Archie MacEachern is in the centre and his sister Fileag is second on the left. Their father was Archibald MacEachern, the blacksmith at Creag Mhòr in Cornaigbeg.
Archie worked for around eleven years on Harris as a blacksmith and missionary. Part of his work involved making spearheads for the harpoons used in the whaling industry. He returned to Tiree in the 1930s to work in the smiddy at Creag Mhòr.
He married Catherine MacLean from The Brae, Cornaigbeg and the couple had three children, Archibald, Hugh and Mary. Archie continued his missionary work, preaching in the United Free Church in Kirkapol in the 1930s.
Black and white photograph of Archie and Fileag MacEachern in Harris in the 1920s.
Leverburgh Sunday School, Harris, in the 1920s. Archie MacEachern is in the centre and his sister Fileag is second left. Archie was the blacksmith at Creag Mhor in Cornaigbeg and also a lay preacher and missionary. He preached in the United Free Church in Kirkapol in the 1930s.
1998.176.12
Black and white photograph of Archie and Fileag MacEachern in Harris in the 1920s.
Leverburgh Sunday School, Harris, in the 1920s. Fileag and her brother Archie MacEachern are on the extreme left (see photos R16 and R17)
2003.172.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 306, 8/11/2003.
Local news and events including the Agricultural Business Development Scheme and Processing and Marketing Grant Scheme, article by Councillor Ian Gilles, letter from the manse, visiting archaeologist Steven Mithen, article by John Bowler RSPB, a craft weekend in Coll and news from the school, youth and golf clubs.
2000.168.1
Leather bound Gaelic Bible.
Black leather bound Gaelic Bible 140 x 87 x 43 mm.
2001.1.4
Paperback book `A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland circa 1695` by Martin Martin, 1703
Written by Martin Martin a native and Gaelic speaker, it casts light on the Hebrides when the old structure of society held sway before the Jacobite rebellions (for Tiree see pp 294-6). Includes Martin Martin`s `A Voyage to St Kilda`, and `A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland` 1549, by Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, which presents an account of a pastoral visit to the islands still coping with the turbulent period after the fall of the Lords of the Isles.
1998.139.5
Black and white photograph of Rev. John MacNiven of Barrapol.
Rev. John MacNiven of Barrapol, taken around 1900.
1998.143.1
Black and white photograph of the Baptist Home Mission of Scotland in 1912.
The Baptist Home Mission of Scotland in 1912. (Awaiting info) (Original photo in Filing Cabinet 3 drawer 1)
