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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1868 to 16 June 1876

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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

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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

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Baleloch SSPCK School (-1801) 1
Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915 1
Campbell, Anthony, 1825-1904 (fisherman and crofter | Kentangaval | Barra) 1
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1
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Ferguson, Mary, c1825-1909 (domestic servant | Cladach a' Bhaile Shear | North Uist) 1
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MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 1
MacCodrum, Iain [John], c1693-1777 (Iain mac Fhearchair | Scottish Gaelic poet) 1
MacDonald (Milton | South Uist) 1
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MacDonald, Archibald, c1750-c1815 (Gille na Ciotaig | bard and satirist | Uist) 1
MacDonald, Donald, -c1650 1
MacDonald, Donald, fl1546 1
MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Malacleit | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1
MacDonald, Marshal of France | Duke of Tarentum, 1765-1840 1
MacInnes, Christina or Chirsty, c1807-1894 1
MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 1
MacIntosh, Margaret, c1828-1883 1
MacIntyre, Donald, c1797-c1890 1
MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 1
MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 1
MacLeod (of Lewis) 1
MacLeod, John, c1808-1887 (crofter) 1
MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 1
MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 1
MacNeil (of Barra) 1
MacNeil, Marion, 1843-1927 1
MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 1
MacPhail, Malcolm, Rev, 1837-1906 (minister | Kilmartin | Argyllshire) 1
MacPhee, Ann, 1847-1905 (or Ann MacKinnon | wife of Archibald MacKinnon, crofter | Carnan | South Uist) 1
MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 1
MacPherson, Mary, 1821-1898 1
MacPherson, Neil, 1781-1877 (crofter | Liniclate | Benbecula) 1
Morison, John, fl1630-1708 (tacksman | Bragar | Isle of Lewis) 1
Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Royal Regiment of Foot (1633?2006) 1
Stewart, Mary, c1801-1877 1
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1
Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company. Wheeler and Wilson Company (1852-1907) 1
Wylie, John, c1600 (Fife settler | Stornoway | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 1
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