Places - Skye, Scotland

Clan Donald Lands Trust (Lord Macdonald papers)

Titles of lands in Inverness-shire and Argyllshire 1462-1920, including writs of the land and barony of Macdonald 1542-1920 and barony of Strathordell 1696-1881. Titles to other lands 1463-1881. Great Seal grant of Nova Scotia baronetcy to Sir Don...

Reference code

GB 1892 GD221

Date(s)

  • 1462-1955 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Highland & Island Emigration Society

Letter books 1852-1859; list of emigrants 1852-1857; promissory note book 1852-1857

Reference code

GB 234 HD4

Date(s)

  • 1852-1859 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Highland & Island Emigration Society

Photocopies of chronological lists (arranged by vessel and port) of assisted emigrants to Australia, 1852-1855

Reference code

GB 232 D295

Date(s)

  • 1852-1858 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Highland Destitution

HD/1 Registers 1840-1852 HD/2 Accounts 1846-1850 HD/3 Letterbooks 1846-1851 HD/4 Highland and Island Emigration Society 1852-1859 HD/5 Schedules 1847 HD/6 Miscellaneous volumes, including reports of the Edinburgh section 1783-1851 HD/7 Commissary ...

Reference code

GB 234 HD

Date(s)

  • 1783-1859 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

John Stuart, Marquis of Bute: journal of tour of the Western Isles

“Journal of the tour round the Western Islands of Scotland” in the hand of John, 1st. Marquis of Bute (then Lord Mountstuart), detailing a tour in the revenue cutter 'Royal George' from Bute to Islay, Mull, Lismore, Staffa, Iona, North Uist, Lewis...

Reference code

GB 233 MS.9587

Date(s)

  • 1788 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Macdonald family of the Isles of Skye and North Uist

Nomination of tutors and reports by tutors 1747-1762; accounts 1753-1828; correspondence 1807-1830; legal case files 1826-1831; inventories of land and titles 1828; miscellaneous estate papers 1812-1829; legal papers, correspondence, and memoranda...

Reference code

GB 248 UGD 37/2

Date(s)

  • 1747-1831 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Macdonald of Macdonald papers

Private act of parliament (10 & 11 Vict., c.29) vesting certain estates in the county of York (England) in Alexander William Robert Bosville and another, and in Skye and North Uist in Godfrey William Wentworth Lord Macdonald, and enabling Lord Mac...

Reference code

GB 1892 MS 4

Date(s)

  • 1847 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Mackenzie papers (Skye & Uist)

The family papers relate principally to the Tolmies, tacksmen from 1773 of Uiginish in Skye, and their descendents. H.H. Mackenzie's grandmother Annabella Tolmie, youngest daughter of John Tolmie 1st tacksman, married Hector Mackenzie son of John ...

Reference code

GB 234 GD403

Date(s)

  • 1640-1947 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Photograph albums of St Kilda, Orkney and Shetland

Album of photographs mainly of St. Kilda and its inhabitants, taken circa 1913 by Michael Stevenson, on a trip on the 'Hebrides'. The others are of Skye and the west coast. With 3 postcards loosely inserted Also, album of photographs mostly of Or...

Reference code

GB 234 GD1/173

Date(s)

  • 1913-1922 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

William Macdonald, WS, Edinburgh

Accounting records, 1738(?)-1816; Common letter books, 1777-1781; Letter book containing letters to factors of Largie, Sleat, North Uist, Trotterness and Clanranald, 1774-1780; Court process books, 1771-1781; Household book for the Edinburgh house...

Reference code

GB 234 GB1/8

Date(s)

  • 1738-1816 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection
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