Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
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Subject Source: Local sources
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Story about Mr Finlay [MacRae] from Vallay, 14 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/104
Scope and Contents
Story about Mr Finlay [Rev Finlay MacRae], Vallay [Bhà laigh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, telling how he harangued the new Free Church minister of Harris [Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] shortly after the Disruption declaring that he was the rightful minister and that 'if the people did not return to the church & disown the F[ree] C[hurch] they would fall up there & crush them like midges'. The story continues that MacRae...
Dates:
14 July 1870