Photocopied letter dated 30/11/1847 from Rev MacLean to the Duke of Argyll.
Letter dated 30/11/1847 from Rev Neil MacLean to the Duke of Argyll about the destitution on Tiree resulting from the potato blight.
1998.197.3
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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.
1998.181.1
Laminated photograph of a Women`s Guild outing to the Reading Room around 1930.
Women`s Guild outing to the Reading Room around 1930. (For numbered plan and names see 1998.181.2 and 1998.1813)
1998.182.12.3
Photocopied pages of newspaper cuttings.
Daily Express article about the four year lack of a minister on Tiree.
1998.173.1
Photocopied extract from book `Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1842-1900` edited by Rev William Ewing, D.D., Vol I: pp 160, 234, 248, Vol II: pp 121-123.
Biographical information about Free Church ministers who served Tiree.
1998.173.2
Photocopied extracts from `The Monthly Record of the Free Church of Scotland`.
Contributions received fromTiree in 1907 and 1908; article about communion and other services held in Tiree during 1908, some of which were held in the Baptist churches and in the Reading Room; obituary for elder Donald MacFadyen, Scarinish merchant, who died in 1912.
1998.173.3
Photocopied extract from `Scottish Population Statistics` edited by J. G. Kyd, pp 32-35.
Extract from Alexander Webster`s census of 1755 which describes Tiree as 8 miles long and 1.25 miles broad with 1 minister, 3 Papists, 1506 Protestants and 301.75 fighting men.
1998.169.1
Hardback book `Hector MacKinnon – A Memoir` by his wife.
Biography of the Reverend Hector MacKinnon of Kirkapol and Shettleston.
1998.150.1
Photocopied newspaper cutting about local news on Tiree in 1912.
Local news about harvesting, teachers` examinations, the Rev. D. MacPherson, the death by drowning of Archibald MacDonald aged 25 of Balemartine and Tiree School Board.
1999.113.13
Black and white postcard of a painting of the Kirkapol chapels.
Painting of the Kirkapol chapels.
