Family History
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on Watersay House and MacNeils, 1869
Notes on Watersay House [Bhatarsaigh/Vatersay] that it was built by Donald MacNeil of Watersay and that the last of the Watersays' was Eoiean [Eòghan] who is buried in Cladh Chriosd [Cladh Chrìosd] with five of his children. Also notes the situation of Taigh Pobuil at Borve [Borgh, Barraigh/Barra].
Papers of Frederick Couper and family
Papers of the Anderson, Urquhart and Graham Families
Correspondence, diaries, legal documents, inventories, student notes, sermons, and business accounts relating to the members of the Anderson, Urquhart, and Graham families (all related). The material covers the 18th and 19th centuries and relates to subjects as varied as ironmongery, sea travel, study of humanities in the 1820s, preaching and sermons, school teaching, etc. This collection provides an excellent insight into the daily life in Edinburgh in the late 1700s and in the 1800s.
Papers of the Scott family
Papers of The Very Rev Prof James Whyte (1920-2005)
Pencil sketch of a brooch and accompanying description, 1883
Pencil sketch of a brooch and accompanying description which states that the brooch was made for Mary MacColl, grandmother of the wife of Donald MacColl, [foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], at Callarst, [Callaird/Callert] in the 1700s. The brooch is of 'good workmanship' with the name on the reverse side. It is noted that Donald's wife died in 1880 aged about eighty-six.
[Prayer] entitled 'Sloinnidh Brìde', 21 December 1885
[Prayer] entitled 'Sloinnidh Brìde' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Sloinnidh ban-naomh Bride muime Chriosda, Bride nighean Dughaill duinn'. Text has been scored through in pencil.