MacDonald (of Clanranald)
Family
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing primarily songs and stories collected in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Barraigh/Barra, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis. The main informants are Roderick MacNeil or Ruairidh an Rùma from Mingulay and Penelope MacLellan of Ormacleit/Ormaclete. The bulk of the material from MacNeil relates to the southernmost islands of the Hebrides and covers topics such as bird-fowling, the island way of life, place-names,...
Dates:
c1868 to 16 June 1876
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates:
1874, 1877 and 1891
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, inscribed on the inside cover with 'Alexander A Carmichael Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist 15/7 1870 Note Book No 8'. The majority of this notebook contains material collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay from the MacDonalds at Paible House, Mor or Marion MacQueen and Donald MacKinnon including notes on the island's archaeology, local history and geographical changes, with stories of how coastal erosion revealed burial sites and renditions of...
Dates:
15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Notes on the family of Uistean Mor Mac Onail, 14 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/102
Scope and Contents
Notes on the family of Uistean Mor Mac Onail [Uisdean Mòr MacDonald] probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist listing his illegitimate children and their mothers and noting the burial place of one of them.
Dates:
14 July 1870
Song entitled 'Mac Iain 'ic Sheumais' and accompanying note, 10 February 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/74
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Mac Iain 'ic Sheumais' collected from Mairead Donullach [Margaret MacDonald], aged 79 years, Gearrai iain, Malacleit, N[orth] Uist [Gearraidh Iain, Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'Na nead an eoin bhinnich, Bha [th]u innis na Ruai'. The song is composed of fifty lines and has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The accompanying note describes Mairead as 'A poor old woman in a hut who had been at service in Vallay [Bhàlaigh] for a long time...
Dates:
10 February 1870
Story about Siol Mhurchaidh and Siol Ghoraidh, 13 July 1870 to 14 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/91
Scope and Contents
Story about Siol Mhurchaidh and Siol Ghoraidh collected from Ruary MacCoinnich [Roderick MacKenzie], aged 68 years, carpenter, Struan-rua, Malacleit [Sruthan Ruadh, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] telling how eighteen families of Siol Ghoraidh lived at Udal and murdered Siol Mhurchaidh while they were resting from ploughing. They put a bonnet on each cas chrom [plough] and Siol Mhurchaidh's wives thought that they were all working until they got close to them and found them...
Dates:
13 July 1870 to 14 July 1870
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- Family History 5
- Tales 5
- Biography 4
- Songs 4
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Birds 3
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- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 3
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Laments 3
- Language 3
- Sayings 3
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Vocabulary 3
- Archaeology 2
- Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Cattle 2
- Cemeteries 2
- Customs 2
- Death 2
- Drowning 2
- Family 2
- Fishing 2
- Food 2
- Gearraidh Iain North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Genealogy 2
- Geography 2
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Landowners 2
- Marriage 2
- Murder 2
- Placenames 2
- Plants 2
- Poems 2
- Protection 2
- Udal North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- Waulking songs 2
- An Cnoc Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Charms 1
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- Cleitreabhal a Deas North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cleitreabhal a Tuath North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Coasts 1
- Creagorry Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Fish 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
- Garryhellie South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Geology 1
- Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogmanay 1
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- Hunting 1
- Isle of Mull Argyllshire Scotland 1
- Justice 1
- Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kilpheder South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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- Loch Cleitreabhal North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Loch Sollas North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Losgaintir Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Lullabies 1
- Mermaids 1
- Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Names 1
- Nisishee Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Nunton Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ormacleit South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Paibeil Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ploughing 1
- Poets, Scottish 1
- Prophecy 1
- Proverbs 1
- Revenge 1
- Riddles 1
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- Saints 1
- Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Seathain | mac Rìgh Èirinn 1
- Skeabost Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Solas North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- South Uist Howmore Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sruthan Ruadh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Staoinebrig South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stone crosses 1
- Stones 1
- Taobh Tuath Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1 + ∧ less
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