The Museum will be open from this week, on Wednesday, Thursdays and Fridays, 12-4pm, for the rest of May. Full summer opening, Monday through Saturday, 12-5pm, will begin on 1 June – volunteers permitting (and new ones always welcome.) If you’re in Uig, please drop in for a look and a blether. The committee elected [...]
Read more →[singlepic=622,467] Our Rose, painted by Anne McVean – notecards now available to buy from the museum. Many thanks to Anne.
Read more →TB Macaulay (1860-1942), the well-known son of Uig who became President of the Sun Life Assurance Co. in Montreal, and contributed to many good causes in Lewis around the time of his 1929 visit, was, not surprisingly, philanthropic at home as well. He founded the Welcome Hall Mission in the city in 1892: Welcome Hall [...]
Read more →From Lewsiana, by W Anderson Smith (J&R Parlane, Paisley 1874-1886). Let us first consider in detail the domestic arrangements in the hands of the women, and trace in order the results of their industry, which is untiring, if not always regulated to the best advantage. As soon as the family is astir in the morning, [...]
Read more →[singlepic=615,327] Uig is a hive of activity this afternoon.
Read more →James Shaw Grant, in one of his many books about the folk and tales of the Islands, reckoned that the evidence available does not support the idea that Mac an t-Srònaich was the vicious murderer of popular legend. Mac an t-Srònaich was a native of Garve on the mainland, and is reckoned to have killed [...]
Read more →From the BBC website: Scientific evidence of an ancient invasion of Scotland from Ireland may have been uncovered by DNA techniques. Researchers from Edinburgh University said studies of Scots living on Islay, Lewis, Harris and Skye were found to have strong links with Irish people. Early historical sources recount how the Gaels came from Ireland [...]
Read more →The clocks went forward this morning. In case you missed them previously, we have two short pieces here on the first use of BST in Uig in 1917, and from a 1965 article looking back to the continuing disagreements over it in 1925 and during WW2. Readers in Lewis and Harris, please remember tonight is [...]
Read more →[singlepic=597,326] William Matheson (Uilleam Dearg) was born to 2 Geshader in 1877, the youngest son of William Ruadh. As a young man he went off, presumably to join the Seaforths, though his family heard nothing of him until he turned up in a picture of a company in Egypt or the Sudan, about 1898. He [...]
Read more →[singlepic=586,327] From an article by Dave Roberts with Norman Macaulay, John Macdonald and Donald Maciver. In the Seaforth Muniments, there are letters in which various people had recognized the need for a safe anchorage for the larger boats in Camus Uig. Representations were made to the Fisheries Board, and a plan and specification were prepared in [...]
Read more →At the Uig Celebration dinner and ceilidh on Friday, there was an Uig quiz, compiled by Teen Anne Murray. Twenty questions; this site may help you with some of them but for most, you’re on your own. Answers in the comments please. 1. Name the oldest and youngest people currently resident in Uig. 2. Recent [...]
Read more →From Uig, A Hebridean Parish, by HA Moisley and the Geographical Field Group, 1960. The crofting population of Uig started the second half of the nineteenth century with far less land than had been occupied by their forebears fifty years before, and, although famine, clearance and emigration had slightly reduced the population between 1841 and [...]
Read more →We’re pleased to launch a new Uig School page, to show some of the historical subjects the children are studying, particularly those of local relevance. The Uig Museum is adjacent to the school and good use is made of it by the pupils of teachers. [singlepic=472,435] The upper class (P4-P7) recently did a study of [...]
Read more →The mystery surrounding this picture has been cleared up – see the comments for Teen Anne’s identification of most of the people. The Pairc connection was Maggie Saunders of Valtos, who married Norman Campbell of Gravir. [singlepic=453,330]
Read more →[singlepic=443,380] The Islands Book Trust and Peter Cunningham will present a selection of slides from the collection of Dolly Doctor – Dr Donald Macdonald of Gisla, who in his later years collected the history, traditions and folklore of the island, published posthumously as Tales and Traditions of the Lews. Dolly Doctor took photographs of life [...]
Read more →Sgeulachdan goirid air a’ chuspair ‘Cianalas’. Duaisean air leth airson fileantaich & luchd-ionnsachaidh: Bun-Sgoil: 1. £40 : 2. £20 : 3. £15 (suas gu 200 facal) Àrd-Sgoil: 1. £60 : 2. £40 : 3. £20 (suas gu 500 facal) Inbhich: 1. £150 : 2. £100 : 3. £ 50 (suas gu 2000 facal) Cuiribh na [...]
Read more →Now that the CE na Pairc website is up and running, we’re expecting a good bit of cross-fertilisation between it and ours. A number of significant South Lochs families originated in Uig and we’re working out the connections; and of course Dòmhnall Càm had his airigh there. Meanwhile, our Donald Maciver (An Ataireachd Àrd) was [...]
Read more →From the same stable as CEUig.com comes a new website for Comunn Eachdraidh na Pairc, across the island in South Lochs, to be launched tonight at their AGM. Pairc was, with the comainn eachdraidh in Uig, Bernera and Kinloch, a founder member of the Hebridean Connections project, and has a large collection of stories, photographs [...]
Read more →Six pictures on the moors, unidentified or at least they’ve lost their name tags. If you can recognise any faces, or the airighs, please comment (referring to the picture by number.) These and many others to come will all go in the Gallery – so far we’ve had one tremendous success, with the Crowlista wedding. [...]
Read more →A series of articles on the Old Soldiers of Uig appeared in the Comann Eachdraidh Uig publication, Sanais, in the 1980s, from which this is an extract. John Munro, Iain Mac a’ Mhinisteir, was the only son of the Rev Hugh Munro, minister at Bailenacille for fifty years; a son of the manse with a [...]
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