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Family history and story about Clanvurich Staoligeary and accompanying verse, 29 October 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/104
Scope and Contents Family history and story about Clanvurich [Clann Mhuirich] Staoligeary [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] probably collected from Angus Currie, pauper, Iocar [Ìochdar] describing the different lands held by different generations of the clan up until they lost Stadhlaigearraidh as the seventeenth generation to have lived there over three hundred and sixty years. The name of the last member of the clan to hold it was Niall mac Lachlain ioc Neill ioc Dhonil [Niall mac...
Dates: 29 October 1872

Family history note about Ann Campbell, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/26
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Family history note probably collected from Marion MacQueen, Tarasaigh/Taransay, about Ann Campbell [composer of the song Ailein Duinn] that she 'had a sister Barabra mar[ried] to Alex[ander] Mac Iain ic Leod'.

Dates: 8 July 1870

Family history relating to Clann ic ill ria'aich and Clann ic Iosaig [Clan MacIlriach and Clan MacIsaac], 5 April 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/44
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Family history relating to Clann ic ill ria'aich and Clann ic Iosaig [Clan MacIlriach and Clan MacIsaac] collected from Hector MacIosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Kean Langabhat, Iochdar [Ceann Langabhat, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] stating that they were the only family allowed to live at Liadail [Liathdail] and that anyone outwith that family who tried to settle there would be 'thrown ab[ou]t his head'.

Dates: 5 April 1872

Family papers, 1723-1935

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-51/1
Scope and Contents 1 .1: 'Family dates C.K.M. 25.2.1935'. 1 fol. 1.2: 'Chronological table of the family of the Murchisons or as called in Gaelic McColman'. Notebook. 1 .3: 'Notes on Murchison family papers at Hargrave made by A.F.Rowe Aug. 1924'. 1.4: 'List of letters & papers acquired from Haffenden 1921 ...' with correspondence between various lawyers, Dec. 1920 - April 1922. 25 fols. 1.5: 'Incidents in the life of Colonel Donald Murchison'. 7pp, with postcards...
Dates: 1723-1935

Field and transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing field and transcribed material. The notebook is inscribed on the front inside cover with the following: 'Scrap Book MS No1 Alex[ander] Carmichael (of Lismore) Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist] 1864'. On the recto side of the fly leaf is written 'Angus MacDonald Staoinebrig tale teller' and on the verso side of the fly leaf is written 'Bought at Drew's Saint columb Cornwall this 17 day of Nov[ember] 1864 A. A. Carmichael p2/3'....
Dates: 1864-1867

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates: 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111
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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.

Dates: 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, noted as being 'Bought at St Columb, Cornwall, 30 Nov[ember] 1864 pr[ice] 2/3'. The back inside cover contains a note probably collected as part of excise duties which reads 'Rod[erick] MacPhie Mast of boat 21.8 [-] 1.2½ [-]'. The notebook contains one insertion. The majority of the notebook contains lore relating to Miùlaigh/Mingulay mostly collected from Roderick MacNeil, crofter, aged 88, known as Ruairidh an Rùma. Roderick MacNeil also...
Dates: 1864 to

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, c1872-1893

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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

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

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Grierson, Mary Gardner (pianist and conductor) 93
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 90
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 50
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 38
Foss, Hubert James (music publisher and composer) 22
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MacDonald (of Clanranald) 21
MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher) 19
Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland) 17
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 13
Baillie, Anne, 1809-1847 (Former owner of manuscripts) 12
Baillie, John Baillie, of Leys, 1835-1890 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection) 12
Baillie, John, of Leys, 1772-1833 (Member of Parliament, and East India Company Official) 12
Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes) 12
MacDonald (of Sleat) 11
Anderson, David, 1750-1828 (Diplomat, East India Company) 9
MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 9
MacColl, Donald, 1793-1886 (foxhunter | Glencreran | Argyllshire) 8
MacDonald, Marshal of France | Duke of Tarentum, 1765-1840 8
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 8
Weisse, Sophie, 1852-1945 (Scottish music teacher) 8
Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) 8
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 7
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 7
Livingston, John, 1810-1895 7
Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 7
MacAulay, Aulay, Rev, 1673-1758 (minister | Isle of Harris) 7
Stewart (of Appin) 7
Wilson, George, 1818-1859 (regius professor of technology, University of Edinburgh) 7
Anderson, Adam, 1797-1853 (Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice) 6
Anderson, James, 1758-1833 (Persian Interpretor, East India Company) 6
Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 (violinist) 6
MacLeod (of Dunvegan) 6
MacNeil (of Barra) 6
Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 6
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 6
Baily, Margaret N O, 1899-1953 5
Campbell (Scalpay) 5
Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') 5
Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973 (cellist) 5
Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 5
Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society) 5
Livingston (Appin) 5
MacAulay (of Brenish | Isle of Lewis) 5
MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) 5
MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 5
MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 5
Moser, Andreas, 1859-1925 (violinist, teacher, writer on music and editor) 5
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 5
Trevelyan, Robert Calverley, 1872-1951 5
Anderson, Kenneth (Kenneth) 4
Beasley, Mary (Principle of Northampton School of Music) 4
Campbell (of Argyll) 4
Campbell (of Barcaldine) 4
Carmichael, Dugald, Captain, 1772-1827 4
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 4
MacAulay, Kenneth, Rev, 1723-1779 (minister | Cawdor | Nairnshire) 4
MacCodrum, Iain [John], c1693-1777 (Iain mac Fhearchair | Scottish Gaelic poet) 4
MacDonald (Milton | South Uist) 4
MacEachen (Howbeg | South Uist) 4
MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 4
MacNiven, Duncan, 1804-1895 (Donnachadh Phadruig | schoolmaster | Airds | Taynuilt | Argyllshire) 4
MacRury, John Ewen, c1853-1909 (Torlum | Benbecula) 4
Maclean (of Duart) 4
Paterson, Robert, 1802-1872 (president, Natural History Society of Belfast) 4
Peterkin, Norman (Oxford University Press) 4
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 4
Speyer, Edward 1839-1934, 1839-1934 (music collector and entrepreneur) 4
Voorst, John Van, fl1863 (publisher) 4
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 3
Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 (geologist and distiller) 3
Brendan, Saint (the Elder) 3
Campbell, Colin, 1708-1752 ('Cailean Ruadh' | 'Cailean Uaine' | 'The Red Fox' | Cailean Ghlinn Iubhair | Glenure | Argyllshire) 3
Campbell, Donald, Sir, -1651 (of Airds) 3
Carmichael (Appin) 3
Carmichael (Taylochan | Lismore | Argyllshire) 3
Carmichael, Mary Frances, c1843-1928 3
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 3
Frank, Alan, fl 1950s 3
Gal, Hans, 1890-1987 (composer and musicologist) 3
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 3
MacAulay, Angus, c1720- (or Aeneas | son of Rev Aulay MacAulay | Isle of Harris) 3
MacDonald (of Boisdale | South Uist) 3
MacDonald, Donald, -c1650 3
MacDonald, Duncan, c1785-1873 3
MacDonald, Lord of the Isles 3
MacDonald, Mac Uisdean (proprietor or factor | Griminis | North Uist) 3
MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Mairead nighean Aonghais Duinn | Gearraidh Iain | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 3
MacDonald, Marion, fl 1870s-1880s 3
MacDonald, Mary, c1800-1883 (farmer's wife | Paible House | Taransay | Inverness-shire) 3
MacIntosh, Catherine, c1807- 3
MacIntyre, Donald, c1797-c1890 3
MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 3
MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 3
MacNeil, Alexander, c1787-1881 ([Alastair mac Ruari bhain MacNeill ]; fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 3
MacQueen, Mor, c1778-1880 (or Marion | nurse | Taransay | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 3
MacRae, Mary, c1790-1879 (dairymaid) 3
Saumarez Bray, Sir Denys, 1875-1951 (Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, and Indian delegate to the League of Nations) 3
Wallace, Clara (wife of Sir Donald Francis Tovey) 3
Allen, John Carter, c1798-1872 (author | 'Comte D' Albanie') 2
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 2
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