More from Crowlista
by sarah • 31 July 2008 • Archive photos • 0 Comments
More from John Blair – at the sheep, c1980.
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Posts Tagged ‘crowlista’
More Macaulays of Uig
by sarah • 30 July 2008 • Genealogy, History • 0 Comments
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 Norse, also their appearance [...]
Read more →Crowlista School, c1966
by sarah • 30 July 2008 • Archive photos, Life in Uig • 0 Comments
As we’re in Crowlista… thanks to Donald and Cathie Mary for the list of names. Teachers Miss Ann Macdonald Stornoway and Mrs Catherine Finlayson Ardroil. Back: 1. Iain Morrison Brenish (Dola) 2. Chris-Ann Maclean Brenish 3. Pat Matheson 4 Ardroil 4. Joan Maclean Brenish 5. Chrissie M Matheson 4 Ardroil 6. Jessie Margaret Maclean Brenish [...]
Read more →Pictures from Crowlista, c1977-80
by sarah • 30 July 2008 • Archive photos • 0 Comments
Mòran taing to John Blair for sending a superb collection of photos from Crowlista and the fanks – this is just a taster.
Read more →Rental Paid in 1725
by sarah • 27 July 2008 • History, Land Issues • 0 Comments
Having been on the losing side in the Jacobite rising of 1715, the Seaforths had to forfeit their lands to the Crown. These were then administered by a body of Commissioners for a number of years (though the Seaforths were eventually allowed to buy them back, because no other buyer could be found.) It appears [...]
Read more →Long an Iaruinn: the Ship of Iron
by sarah • 22 July 2008 • Tales & Traditions • 0 Comments
Dolly Doctor, in Tales and Traditions, tells of the wreck of a ship at Carnish in 1775. In the picture Sgeir an Iaruinn is the small island in the middle of the picture, with Shielibhig in the distance on the far left. All night the people round Uig Bay had listened to the cries of woe [...]
Read more →Intolerable Postal Facilities, 1920
by sarah • 22 July 2008 • History, Transport • 0 Comments
Stornoway Gazette Friday, 16 January 1920 WEST UIG MAIL SERVICE At a meeting held in Crowlista Public School, Miavaig, Lewis, on Tuesday, 30th December 1919 presided over by Col. Lindsay, Morsgail Lodge,Lord Leverhulme’s representative here, and attended by representatives from all the townships of West Uig, it was resolved to lay before the Postmaster General, [...]
Read more →An Saighdear Chaluim Bhain
by sarah • 20 July 2008 • Bàrdachd, Emigration, Gàidhlig, Genealogy, People • 2 Comments
Donald Matheson, an Saighdear Chaluim Bhain, was a son of Malcolm Matheson (Calum Bàn) of Valtos and Crowlista. (Calum Bàn has some interesting ancestors who can be found by following the lines back via Hebridean Connections.) Donald was born in the 1740s and joined the army, serving at the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, and [...]
Read more →The Footprint Stone Lost on Mealisval (and in Stornoway)
by sarah • 4 July 2008 • History, Tales & Traditions • 0 Comments
Tradition in Uig tells of a “footprint stone”, a regularly-shaped block about 18″ square with a footprint depression, of the type associated with a saint and used for the crowning of local kings. The provenance and significance of the stone have been lost to local knowledge (unless someone can enlighten us) but it was highly [...]
Read more →Plans for Crowlista, Aird and the Bays, 1851
by sarah • 1 July 2008 • Emigration, History, Land Issues • 0 Comments
From the Diary of John Munro Mackenzie, Chamberlain, in 1851: Friday 14 Feby. Met the people of Crowlista, Aird Uig, Carishader, Geshader, Enaclete, Ungeshader and having explained the conditions on which they were to be emigrated, their condition state of arrears etc the following results were arrived at – Crowlista, 6 families, £34.8.4 in arrears, [...]
Read more →Wedding of Dr John and Catherine Macdonald
by sarah • 22 June 2008 • Archive photos • 12 Comments
This picture hung unidentified in the museum for some time; thanks to Peter Macdonald, it’s now known to be the wedding of Dr John Macdonald, 5 Crowlista, and his wife Catherine who had Uig and Stornoway connections. See the comments for detail – and many thanks to Peter for clearing up the mystery.
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