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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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about Eilean an Du-chonnaidh, March 1874

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/76

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Note about Eilean an Du-chonnaidh, that is used to be an island and was seen by men still alive as such, that it is 'now a strand with two pyramidal remnants of moss standing over the clam shingle near Creagorry - between the point of Aird an eoin and Hacleit' [Creag Ghoraidh, Àrd-an-eoin and Haclait/Hacklet all Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. 'Du-chonnaidh' is described as fresh or green brush wood.

Dates: March 1874

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Names: Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 2; MacDonald (of Clanranald) 2; MacDonald (of Sleat) 2; MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 2; Beaton (or Paton | medical practitioners | South Uist) 1; Black, John, c1784-1872 (pauper | probably Iain Ruadh or John Roy | Killean | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915 1; Brendan, Saint (the Elder) 1; Bride, Saint, c453-525 (Kildare) 1; Campbell (of Airds) 1; Campbell, Donald, Sir, -1651 (of Airds) 1; Carmichael (Taylochan | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1; Carmichael, Duncan, fl1870 (Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; Catholic Church. Roman Catholic Church (c100-) 1; Currie, Angus, c1787-1877 1; Currie, Archibald, 1821-1896 1; Ferguson, Mary, c1825-1909 (domestic servant | Cladach a' Bhaile Shear | North Uist) 1; Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 1; MacAulay (of Brenish | Isle of Lewis) 1; MacAulay, Angus, c1720- (or Aeneas | son of Rev Aulay MacAulay | Isle of Harris) 1; MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 1; MacAulay, Aulay, Rev, 1673-1758 (minister | Isle of Harris) 1; MacAulay, John, Rev, 1720-1789 (minister of Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; MacAulay, Kenneth, Rev, 1723-1779 (minister | Cawdor | Nairnshire) 1; MacDonald (Milton | South Uist) 1; MacDonald (of Boisdale | South Uist) 1; MacDonald, Alexander, 1698-1768 1; MacDonald, Donald, -c1650 1; MacDonald, Donald, fl1546 1; MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 1; MacDonald, Lord of the Isles 1; MacDonald, Mac Uisdean (proprietor or factor | Griminis | North Uist) 1; MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Malacleit | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1; MacInnes, Christina or Chirsty, c1807-1894 1; MacInnes, Donald, c1800-1880 (crofter | Buail'-uachdrach | South Uist) 1; MacIntosh, Catherine, c1807- 1; MacIntosh, Margaret, c1828-1883 1; MacLachlan (Fiart | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1; MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 1; MacLeod (of Berneray) 1; MacLeod (of Lewis) 1; MacLeod, Flora, -1886 (Fionnaghal | Staoinebrig | South Uist) 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; MacPhee, Ann, 1847-1905 (or Ann MacKinnon | wife of Archibald MacKinnon, crofter | Carnan | South Uist) 1; MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 1; Moluag, Saint, c530-592 (patron saint of Argyll) 1; Morrison, John, c1811-1888 (ground officer | Lingreabhagh | Isle of Harris) 1; Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Royal Regiment of Foot (1633?2006) 1; Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1; Surname-Unknown, c1550 (a MacLea or Livingstone Baron) 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