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Household goods

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Story relating to the shipwreck of the vessel 'Harmony', 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/76
Scope and Contents Story relating to the shipwreck of the vessel 'Harmony', possibly collected from Roderick MacLellan, receiver of wrecks, Barraigh/Isle of Barra. The story is fragmented but appears to dispute an account put forward by Capt Grey [Captain Thomas Gray] about local people looting the wreck and opinions such as 'The inhabiti[ants] of Lewis like those of other islands immoral' [Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis]. A quote from 'Charles O' Malley, The Irish Dragoon' which precedes a tale about the wreck...
Dates: 1867

Vocabulary for making spoons, 23 March 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/26
Scope and Contents

List of vocabulary relating to making spoons collected from tinkers by the name of Chisholm at Baileshear [Baile Sear/Baleshare, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist].

Dates: 23 March 1869

Vocabulary note which reads 'Loineachan = Small loinid', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/167
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Loineachan = Small loinid'.

Dates: 1894

Vocabulary note which reads 'Mapaid = Peallan = Mop', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/192
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Mapaid = Peallan = Mop'. The text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 1894