Four Uigeachs in Sydney, Australia, circa 1916. From left, Malcolm Morrison 8 Mangersta (Zinc), Norman Smith ex 2 Ungeshader (Tarmod Choinnich), Donald Smith 2 Ungeshader (Coisich) and Donald Macdonald 22 Valtos (Dòmhnall Daoighear). Three were seamen on HMS Orama that patrolled in the south seas, on shore leave whilst in for bunkers and stores. The [...]
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Four Uigeachs in Sydney
by sarah • 24 July 2008 • Archive photos, Emigration, Military & Police • 2 Comments
Uig Transport in the 1930s-40s
by sarah • 20 July 2008 • History • 0 Comments
To go with the picture of Sgail and his crowd of excursionists, part of an article from the Uig News: In the 1930s there were four cars in Uig. The two ministers both had cars – one was a Vauxhall. The Doctor had a car and so did Norman Mackay, the Public Assistance Officer – he [...]
Read more →Meeting at Islivig School, 1908
by sarah • 19 July 2008 • History, Land Issues • 0 Comments
From Joni Buchanan’s The Lewis Land Struggle (Acair 1996): On Christmas Day 1908, 46 crofters and squatters met at the schoolhouse in Brenish (known as Islivig School) and passed eight resolutions demanding the breakup of Mangersta and Carnish farms: “So that without leaving the locality where they were born and where all associations and kinships that [...]
Read more →More Rebuking in 1825
by sarah • 17 July 2008 • History • 0 Comments
Kirk Session records, 15 November 1825: The Session at Uig having met and constituted, Peggy Morison and Angus Morison, both Capidle, having been charged with a Criminal Connection were examined by the Members of said Kirk Session, they confessed their guilt and agreed as to the time and place in the Statement of the Fact. [...]
Read more →Mangersta School Pictures, 1958
by sarah • 26 June 2008 • Archive photos • 0 Comments
Click through for the full-size image. The odd name is missing; if you can identify, please do via the comments box.
Read more →Plans for Carnish, Mangersta, Islivig and Brenish, 1851
by sarah • 25 June 2008 • History, Land Issues • 0 Comments
From the 1851 Diary of John Munro Mackenzie, Chamberlain of the Lews. Carnish was cleared in the 1850s and the land added to Ardroil Farm. The small tenants at Mangersta moved to Doune Carloway in 1872/3, at their own request as the salt gales were damaging their crops. Both townships were resettled, Mangersta in 1911 and Carnish [...]
Read more →The Grana Rescue at Mangersta
by sarah • 25 June 2008 • History, Weather • 0 Comments
Mangersta, Uig, Isle of Lewis, originally uploaded by rachel 79. Christina Mackay, Uig’s Victorian heroine, was the wife of Donald Mackay, who had the farm at Mangersta after the township had been cleared in 1872 and the people resettled for the most part in Doune Carloway. In October 1896, a gale had been blowing for [...]
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