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Mac Onail, Uisdean

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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 beginning 'Nam bi sa am Beal an sgail' and accompanying story, 18 January 1871

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/140
Scope and Contents Song probably collected from Ruari Saor [Roderick MacDonald] beginning 'Nam bi sa am Beal[ach] an sgail, Far na thuit an damh donn' and accompanying story stating that the song was sung by bean Ghilleaspa dhui nian mhic ic Ailein [bean Ghilleasbuig Dhuibh, nighean Mhic 'ic Ailein]. It was said that Gilleasbuig Dubh had no family but killed one brother in Paible [Paibeil, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] and then went to see his other brother Mac Onail in Duntuilm [Dùn Thuilm/Duntulm, An t-Eilean...
Dates: 18 January 1871

Story entitled 'Alastair Arranach agus Alastair Auinn', 5 August 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/107
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Alastair Arranach agus Alastair Auinn' which tells how Uistean Mor Mag Onail and MacLeod were travelling together and they met a woman in Arran with whom they both slept. She had twins but did not know who was the father of them so it was decided that the first son had been fathered by Uistean Mor who had slept with her first and the second by MacLeod. They boys were raised separately but the first time they met was when one was trying to push a boat into the water and the...
Dates: 5 August 1870

Two stories relating to the hangings in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and accompanying etymological note, 5 August 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/106
Scope and Contents Two stories relating to the hangings in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and accompanying etymological note probably collected from an unnamed 'Orinsay woman' [Orasaigh/Oronsay] who Carmichael had met. The woman told him that that the name of 'La-le-an-tsamhrai' [Latha leth an t-samhraidh] had been changed to 'Laiilleain' [Latha 'Illeathain] because a MacLean had been hanged on that day. The story tells how a MacLean man had been entrusted with a poor woman's only cow for grazing but when her sons...
Dates: 5 August 1870

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North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3
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Family History 2
Genealogy 2
Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Language 2
Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
Songs 2
Archaeology 1
Arran Buteshire Scotland 1
Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Caisteal Bhuirgh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Cemeteries 1
Church Buildings 1
Cladach Chirceboist North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Coasts 1
Craig Hasten North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Crocarlin North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Customs 1
Days 1
Death 1
Deception 1
Demolition 1
Disputes 1
Duntulm Kilmuir (parish) Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Fairies 1
Food 1
Geography 1
Geology 1
Hanging 1
Houses 1
Hunting 1
Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
Isle of Mull Argyllshire Scotland 1
Justice 1
Laments 1
Landowners 1
Liniclate Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Losgaintir Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Marriage 1
Names 1
Nisishee Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
North Uist (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Nunton Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Orasaigh North Uist (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Paibeil Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Paternity 1
Placenames 1
Punishment 1
Rocks 1
Sayings 1
Scarasta Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Sgor Lamhaig North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Solas North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Staoinebrig South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Stones 1
Taobh Tuath Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Teampull na Trionaid North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Udal North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Uidh Taransay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
Vocabulary 1
Voyages and Travel 1
Wells 1
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