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Friday, February 26th, 2010
The Reverend Aulay Macaulay was born in Brenish in 1669, son of Dugald, grandson of Angus Beag Macaulay, he of the big stone and the critical wife, and brother of Donald Òg. Aulay started his career in Tiree and Coll and was minister at Scarista, Harris from 1712 until his ...
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
By long and solid tradition in Uig, the spot where the Uig Chessmen were found in 1831 is held to be the Bealach Ban, a hollow in the dunes in Ardroil. In November of last year, a paper by Dr David Caldwell et al in Mediæval Archaeology proposed that, on ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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Rev Norman Morrison, with his wife, sister (behind him) and children. Rev Morrison was minister at Baile na Cille from 1931 to 1950.
He wasn't the first of that name in Uig; the third known minister in Uig was also Norman Morrison, 1742 to 1777, who was a grandson of John ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Rev Alexander Macleod arrived in Uig 1824 and evidently had a powerful influence on his congregation. In the first years of his ministry a number of stories arose demonstrating the (new) piety and upright behaviour of the people of Uig - perhaps exaggerating somewhat the change that had been brought ...
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Hugh Munro was minister at Baile na Cille for 46 years, until his death on 1 May 1823. He was replaced the following year by Alexander Macleod, but there was nearly a different minister in Uig, which, given Rev Macleod's strong attachment to and leading role in the evangelist movement ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
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This rare picture was taken inside Baile na Cille Church (1950s?) and contributed by Peter N Macdonald. The minister is Rev Angus Macfarlane and the precentor (top left) is Peter Macdonald 5 Crowlista. Can any of the others be identified from the backs of their heads?
Edit: immediately identified, thanks to ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
From the Stornoway Gazette, May 1951.
An event of outstanding interest took place in the Parish of Uig on Wednesday, 16th May, when the new Free Presbyterian Church at Miavaig was opened.
The Ref JA Macdonald, Applecross, the former minister of Uig, conducted divine worship and preached an able discourse from Matt ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
We don't do much editorialising here but please allow an aside. Yesterday, after years of argument, debate and mudslinging and a last-minute breakdown, was the first scheduled Sunday ferry from Stornoway to Ullapool (BBC video here) taking people away after the Heb Celt Festival but also now a permanent fixture. ...
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
From Lewsiana (1874, 1886) by W Anderson Smith. The school referred to seems to be the old blackhouse school in Islivig, which was replaced in the 1880s by the new public school at the north end of Brenish - but Smith's passage seems to come from the earlier edition of ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
From Martin Martin's 1697 account of a voyage to St Kilda. (Photo by Scotproof)
The inhabitants are Christians, much of the primitive temper, neither inclined to enthusiasm nor to popery. They swear not the common oaths that prevail in the world; when they refuse or deny to give what is asked ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
A very strange tale of the death of a Hebridean woman in Iceland, and the subsequent supernatural problems that ensued when her hosts failed to fulfill her dying wishes. This comes from Folk-lore and Legends: Scandinavia, by various authors, published London 1890. The tale originates in the Eyrbiggja Saga and ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Donald Òg, younger son of Dugald Macaulay of Brenish and himself tacksman of Brenish and Ardroil ca. 1740-1762, left, like many of the Macaulays, a lasting impression on the oral tradition of the area. Among his characteristics were a taste for swordfighting, and a certain delight in the vastness of ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
The Highland News, 5 July 1913:
On Wednesday, 2nd inst., the Rev Allan Mackenzie, parish minister of Uig, received a deputation from his congregation who presented him with a handsome new trap and carriage rug. Mr John Matheson Aird said that when the congregation understood how much the minister required a ...
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Dolly Doctor wrote in Tales and Traditions of the practice of performing the t-ainmean in the upper end of Uig - evidently the last man to carry it out was a Mackinnon, grandfather of Dolly Doctor's informant, so perhaps towards the end of the 18th century.
This offering was made to ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
David Watson was ordained as minister of Uig in 1845 but as the congregation had mostly migrated to the Free Church, his Church remained largely empty. He was at odds with the people and the estate, as the following notes in the 1851 diary (published by Acair) of the Chamberlain ...
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