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
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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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
From Sanais, 1988, with some additions.
The first school in the Western Isles was founded shortly after 1610, when the Seaforth Mackenzies gained possession of the island, and in 1680, a report by 'Indweller' says that the Seaforth school had done much good, not only for Lewis but also for the ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
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 ...
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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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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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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
A letter from the Rev Alexander Macleod (formerly Established Church minister in Uig, who had taken his congregation to the Free Church in 1843 and left Uig shortly thereafter for Lochalsh) to Lady Hood, his previous patron. See also a letter from 1824.
Lochalsh
19th March 1844
My very dear and much respected friend, ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Lewis tradition maintains that the Brahan Seer was born in Uig, in the vicinity of Baile na Cille, and that his powers of second sight came from a seeing stone he found there. Dolly Doctor gives the following account in Tales and Traditions, based on the version told in the ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
The ladies who did the tea when Rev Angus Macfarlane retired from Baile na Cille in 1970.
Back: 1. Catriona Macdonald PO Miavaig
2. Dollag Buchanan 9 Mangersta
3. Mary Macleod 10 Geshader
4. Mary Macleod Lochcroistean
5. Nan Buchanan Brenish
6. Christine Maclean 3 Brenish
7. Christina Matheson 2 Ardroil
8. Chrissie Matheson 2 Ardroil
9. Mamie Macdonald ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
After Rev Alexander Macleod and the entire congregation left the established Church in 1843 for the Free Church, the manse at Baile na Cille was vacant for nearly two years. In 1845, David Watson, a native of Croy, educated in Aberdeen, was received as a probationer and required to preach in ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
by John Macleod OBE DL MA (1928-1998), of Carishader. Published by Comann Eachdraidh Uig in 2001. ISBN 0 903960 73 7.
A detailed account of all the ministers in Uig and the significant developments and changes under their ministries from 1778 to 1929, with supporting material and documentation; in addition to the ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Letter to the Gazette, 5 May 1921:
Sir - I observed in your columns the other week an interesting article re the origin of the Clan Macaulay and Lord Macaulay's ancestors. We have no definite historical proof that the Macaulays are of a Scandinavian origin. The name Macaulay is admittedly pure ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
From the Comhairle SMR (Sites and Monuments Record.)
A Bronze Age (2350BC-700BC) cairn was identified at NB045338, on the point of Tolanais overlooking Traigh Uig. Two small assessment trenches were opened on the southern of two large mounds, in order to determine which features of the site were artificial, and to date these, ...
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