National Registration identity card, 1943
Original National Registration identity card belonging to John MacLean of Brae Farm, Cornaigbeg, stamped 25 June 1943. Includes photocopy.
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2013.29.1
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2013.25.1
Telegram for marriage of Mairi and Hector Campbell, Corrairaigh, 1955
Photocopy of a colourful `Greetings Telegram` from Donald and Margaret Campbell, Glasgow, to Mairi and Hector Campbell, Corraraigh, Cornaigbeg, on the advent of their wedding on 10th Aug 1955.
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2013.25.2
Telegram re wedding of Mairi and Hector Campbell, Corrairigh, 1955
Photocopy of a Post Office telegram from “Hector – Helen” (Campbell?) in Cape Town, South Africa, to Mairi and Hector Campbell, Corrairigh, Cornaigbeg, on the advent of their wedding on 10 August 1955.
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2012.136.1
Letters written during WWII mentioning Charles MacLean (Druimfraoich) missing in action
Three letters (and photocopies) handwritten on `Air Mail Letter Card` during WWII, from brothers Angus and Alasdair McLellan to their mother. Although not from Tiree themselves, they mention that their comrade Charles MacLean is missing in action. Charles MacLean was a cousin of Lachie MacLean, Druimfraoich, Cornaigbeg, who lived in Linlithgow next door to Angus & Alasdair`s mother (Marion Findlater`s grandmother). Charles was in the RAF and was shot down.
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2011.6.1
Letter from Catriona Watt, Glasgow to Dr John Holliday dated 7/12/10 about the `SS Malve`, a Finnish steamship that ran aground off Balephetrish Bay in 1931, plus two photographs (P101 & P102). Catriona`s grandparents woke to find it aground in front of their house – Port na Criche, Cornaigbeg.
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2010.55.1
Book “Family of Alexander McLean of Tiree”
Book about the family of Alexander McLean of Cornaigbeg (b.1809, d. 1885). Five of his 13 children and their children lived on the Maraekakaho property in New Zealand. Alexander`s first wife Catherine McLean, Kenovay, died after her 6th child (the drunk doctor set fire to her bed!). His second wife Flora MacKinnon, Baugh, bore him another 7 children. Includes pull-out A3 map of old Tiree.
2009.121.1
Email about Tiree MacFadyens and MacLeans that settled in Regina, Canada in 1885
Email from Barry Beesley to An Iodhlann dated 14/10/2004, about his grandmother Christina MacFadyen, Salum, who emmigrated to Regina, Canada with her parents Donald MacFadyen and Mary MacLean, her uncle Neil MacFadyen and his wife Effie MacLean, and her father`s cousin Donald MacFadyen and wife Flora MacLean. Mary, Flora and Effie were sisters from Cornaigbeg. Includes their genealogies and an account of their lives in Canada.
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2008.49.1
Copy of sepia photograph of John MacKinnon from Cornaigbeg with his wife Mary and daughter Clara.
John Campbell McKinnon with daughter Clara and wife Mary. John was born in Cornaigbeg, Isle of Tiree in 1844, the son of John McKinnon Sr. and Grace Campbell. John and Grace McKinnon had four other children – Mary (1838), Donald (1839), Catherine (1842), and Hugh (1843). After Grace died in Tiree, John Snr emigrated with his children to Canada in June 1949 aboard the ‘Charlotte’ as assisted passengers. John Jnr settled in Cannington, Ontario, married Mary Grace Williton in 1874, and had ten children. He died in 1925 and is buried in Cannington.
2008.46.1
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg.
Lachlan MacCallum was born in Cornaigbeg in 1823. He emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903. In 1854 he married Priscilla Thewlis, an American of English descent, and the 1881 cenus for Sherbrooke, Monck County in Ontario records six children to the marriage. He was a hero at the defense of Fort Erie during the Fenian Raids of 1866.
2008.46.2
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg, a native of Tiree and member of the Canadian Senate.
Lachlan emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903.