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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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Stornoway Gazette, 21 Jan 1944
The pressmen get their snaps - Lewisfolk provide a little colour
American press photographers visited the vicinity of St Pauls on Hogmanay to pick up a few colourful pictures of New Year celebrations in London.
A group of Lewisfolk gave them their best 'shots' of the evening when ...
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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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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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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
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 ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
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The first two are evidently the same excursion, to Tiumpan Head. Thanks to Murdina for the photos and to Finlay and Katie Mary and others for the identification (click through for the detail) ... still some gaps to fill. These and a few others have been added to the Excursions ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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Teacher: Mrs Catherine Finlayson, Ardroil
Back: Donald Maciver 8 Crowlista
Catherine Ann Macfarlane Balnacille Manse
Rachael Mackay 4 Timsgarry
Peter M Matheson 24 Crowlista
Front: Agnes Macfarlane Bailenacille Manse
Jessie Matheson 24 Crowlista
Alex M Matheson 24 Crowlista
Anna Finlayson 1 Ardroil
Dinah Macfarlane Bailenacille Manse.
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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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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The Dewar Commission, charged with investigating the state of medical provision in the Highlands and Islands, interviewed, amongst others, John Macrae (Seonnaidh Mòr), the farmer at Timsgarry, on 12 October 1912 at Garynahine. The questions are put by the chairman, Sir John Dewar MP.
You have three nurses in the parish, ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
On the day in November 1913 when the Reef Raiders drove the stock from Reef Farm, the local Constable made the following report (the list doesn't correspond exactly to the men identified in the photo):
Charge, Breach of the Peace
Police Station
Miavaig, 28th November 1913
Sir,
I beg to report to you that between ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Uig Community Shop has just opened a new extension; the picture shows the arrangements in August 1981, with Calum Ruadh at the manual pumps. Thanks to Carol Wallis (waiting by the car) for the photo.
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The house at 1 Timsgarry, the oldest whitehouse (taigh geal) in Uig, was originally Ciosamul Schoolhouse (Taigh Sgoile Chiosamuil), and one of the first teachers ca.1796 was John Macaskill, a relation of Janet Macaskill, wife of Rev Hugh Munro. John later emigrated to Cape Breton.
Subsequently it was Timsgarry Farmhouse, occupied by first Mitchells ...
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