MacEachen (Howbeg | South Uist)
Family
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1872-1893
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The marjority of the notebook relates to material collected in Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire but there are a number of loose leaves at the end which contain an account of a journey from Uibhist/Uist through An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, during which time his wife, Mary is in Edinburgh and is pregnant. There are eight blank folios at the end of the notebook. Much of the material in this notebook was collected from Duncan...
Dates:
c1872-1893
Story about the Duke of Tarentum and his family in Uist, 1877
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/45
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Duke of Tarentum' stating that he visited Uist [Uibhist] in 1846 and left £10 a year to his cousins Alast[air] and Isebal [Alexander and Isabel MacEachan]. It gives details of the MacEachan family including a nephew of the Duke, who learned English under a tutor paid for by the Duke, and mentions two young men who were taken away on the Duke's ship.
Dates:
1877
Story relating to George Munro, John Munro, Hugh MacEachen and Father Ranald MacEachen and accompanying poem, 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/22
Scope and Contents
Story relating to George Munro, John Munro, Hugh MacEachen and Father Ranald MacEachen. The story tells how George Munro lived until he was ninety-one years old and was the son of John Munro, minister of Duirinish, Skye [Diùirinis, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. Once when Clanranald was on the Isle of Skye, he asked John Munro what favour he could do him and the reply was to give Uibhist a Deas/South Uist to his son George. On another occasion George 'showed kindness' to Father...
Dates:
1892
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Genealogy 2
- Poems 2
- Tobha Beag South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Airds Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Balindore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Cattle 1
- Church attendance 1
- Duirinish Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Duntanachan Ardchattan and Muckairn (parish) Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
- Etymology 1
- Family History 1
- Horses 1
- Hospitality 1
- Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Landowners 1
- Language 1
- Lismore Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Loch Awe Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Loch Etive Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Lochnell House Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Lochs 1
- Longevity 1
- Morvern Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Muckairn Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Murder 1
- Names 1
- Placenames 1
- Prophecy 1
- Sayings 1
- Songs 1
- Vocabulary 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- Wells 1
- Women 1 + ∧ less
∨ more