Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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Many thanks to Donald J Macleod of Enaclete and Bridge of Don for his research into the fishing boats of Uig. He adds that these boats used lines and not trawls to catch white fish. It was the end of March and beginning of April that was known as the ...
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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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Friday, February 19th, 2010
[singlepic=1077,280,left]Dr Duncan Maclennan served as the doctor in West Uig from 1935 to 1945. A native of Stornoway, he studied at Aberdeen and Uig was his first post. He was greatly liked throughout the district, as this piece from the Stornoway Gazette on the occasion of his leaving demonstrates:
20 July 1945
On Tuesday, 3rd ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
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John Nicholson 3 Crowlista, Peter Angus Maclean 8 Timsgarry; and a Macdonald from 5 Crowlista. Can anyone identify the ladies, or where this is taken?
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Stornoway Gazette, 17 May 1940
Some of the people of Crowlista were the spectators of a very unusual sight last Tuesday. While the 1pm news was being broadcast, a sheep belonging to Angus Matheson was labouring to give birth to quadruplets. We regret that two of the lambs were dead on ...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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Translated from an interview with An Geal, John Maclennan, born 1896 at 15 Kneep and married at 4 Aird, Uig. The Admiralty ship the Iolaire taking servicemen home to Lewis grounded on the Beasts of Holm outside Stornoway, on the 1st of January 1919. Almost two hundred men perished. Translated ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
"The wanderlust of the Uigeach", from the Stornoway Gazette, 30 December 1949.
Swedish timber houses allocated to West Uig are not to be built there. Owing to the depopulation of the district there is very little chance of finding tenants. When this news was given to the Lewis District Council by ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
New to our bookshop are some numbered and signed copies of a recent limited publication by David SD Jones entitled Salmon and Sea Trout Angling on Lewis and Harris, Past and Present. The book looks at the fish, principle rivers, fishing hotels, associations, notable anglers and recorded catches throughout the ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
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The remains of the old school at Crowlista (with Forsnaval behind). There is a tradition of there having been a Gaelic school in the village, though there is no mention of a Gaelic Society or SSPCK school in Crowlista in any of the lists we have to hand. The 1861 ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Hector Maclean, who wrote to his sister Annie (Nurse Ruadh) from the Transvaal in 1902, died of enteric fever five months later. From the Highland News (?), 1903:
Sad Death of a Young Man. Information has been received at Crowlista, Uig, from Heidleberg, South Africa, of the death from enteric fever ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
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Annie Maclean, Nurse Ruadh, was born to 12 Crowlista in 1872 and served as district nurse in Uig before taking up the post in Tarbert, where she worked until her death in 1940, and was much loved. The following is from the Stornoway Gazette:
It was with deep regret that we ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Thanks to Roddy Maclean for the scans and Donald Maciver for the names. Those marked * are still living in 2009.
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Back Row: 1. Alexander Macleod Crowlista
2. *Malcolm J Macleod 8 Aird
3. John A Maciver 10 Crowlista (later 8 Crowlista)
4. Angus J Macleod 2 Timsgarry
5. John M Macdonald 6 Crowlista
6. Alexander ...
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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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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
See also the transcript.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
A letter from Hector Maclean of Crowlista, serving in the Transvaal, South Africa, to his sister Annie in Glasgow in 1902. Hector died in South Africa early in 1903 of fever - more of which shortly.
SAC Station
Draaifontein 278
20.9.02
My dear sister,
Received your welcome Letter, glad to see you were well ...
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