Cairinis North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
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Vocabulary note and story about the name Dustaidh, 18 May 1895
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/104
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Vocabulary note and story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula about the name Dustaidh, stating that it is the modern term for a bad kelper. 'A man that did not burn the sea weed well and in the usual manner, was known to have a great deal of duast dust, which would require to be reburnt with some well seasoned seaweed very carefully.' A man in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist became known as dustaidh following a season kelp-making on Rona [RĂ²naigh/Ronay] 'the ground...
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18 May 1895
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- MacKinnon, John, fl1871 (Cairinis | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 4
- Ferguson, Mary, c1825-1909 (domestic servant | Cladach a' Bhaile Shear | North Uist) 3
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- Dustaidh, c1875 (kelper | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1
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- MacDonald, Alexander Wentworth, Lord, 1773-1824 (2nd Baron Macdonald | Member of Parliament) 1
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- MacDonald, Ranald, c1834-1913 (sheep farmer | Taransay | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
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- MacIntosh, Margaret, c1828-1883 1
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- MacKenzie (of Seaforth) 1
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- MacNeil, Marion, 1843-1927 1
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- MacPhee, Ann, 1847-1905 (or Ann MacKinnon | wife of Archibald MacKinnon, crofter | Carnan | South Uist) 1
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- MacQueen (Orasaigh | North Uist) 1
- MacQueen, Mor, c1778-1880 (or Marion | nurse | Taransay | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
- MacRae, Mary, c1790-1879 (dairymaid) 1
- MacRury, Amie (builder of Teampull na Trionaid | Cairinis | North Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
- MacRury, Archibald, fl1870 (Balivanich | Benbecula | Inverness-shire) 1
- Martin, Martin, c1665-1718 1
- Mary, fl1895 (Nighean Ruadh Dhustaidh | Cairinis | North Uist) 1
- Moore, John, Lieutenant-General Sir, 1761-1809 (British soldier and general | member of Parliament | Order of the Bath | Glasgow | Scotland) 1
- National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (1780-1999) 1
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- Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1
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- 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
- nic Coiseam (daughter of mac Coiseam | nurse to mac Iain 'ic Sheumais | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 1 + ∧ less
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