Photocopied book extract `List of Inhabitants of Tyree and their Age in September 1779` edited by Eric Cregeen.
The inhabitants listed by township and family.
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1997.54.1
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Township: balephuil
1997.49.1
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.
1997.48.1
Photocopy of book `Argyll Estates Instructions` 1771-1805 edited by Eric Cregeen.
The instructions given by John, the 5th Duke of Argyll to his Chamberlain in Mull and Morvern and his Chamberlain in Tiree with an introduction by Eric Cregeen.
Available to read online here: National Library of Scotland
2001.203.1
Alasdair MacArthur (Alasdair Iain Mhoir; b. 1910), a cobbler in Am Bail` Ur, Balephuil. Formerly mounted in a wooden frame.
2001.198.1
Audio cassette recording of Angus MacLean interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Scarinish on 20/11/01.
Angus MacLean of Scarinish talks to Maggie Campbell in November 2001 about his time in the fire service after the RAF left, the first fire leader Neil Gunn from Heanish and his team, the Western Area Fire Service in the 1950s, using a Hathaway pump, the fire box at Taigh na Beairt in Scarinish, the new fire station beside the hotel, the first fire tender in 1970, the better equipment under Strathclyde Fire Brigade, several fires including two fatal ones and the improvements in the service.
1997.27.3
Photocopy of family tree for Neil Kennedy and Flora McLean.
Family tree for Neil Kennedy of Balephuil and his wife, Flora McLean of
1998.8.1
Photocopy of School Leaving Certificate
Certifies Andrew Young (donor`s uncle) as having satisfactorily completed three years further education at Carnaigmore Higher Grade Public School
1998.296.1
Interior decoration in the 1920s
Sound clip in English of Mabel Kennedy talking about interior decoration in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Mabel MacArthur
Mabel Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in October 1998 about the interior decoration of the house at Main Road Farm in Balephuil where she lived until she went to work in service in Glasgow in 1926.
The floors of the house were made of concrete although, at that time, some must still have been beaten earth and clay. Earthen floors were considered warmer for children’s feet than concrete or flagstones and were kept clean by a sprinkling of shell sand every day except Sunday.
The walls inside were painted twice a year with whitewash made from seashells. The difficulty and expense of obtaining household goods on a remote Hebridean island encouraged the resourcefulness of the local people who would make do with the materials to hand.