Printed: 2024-12-14
Places - Harris, Scotland
Emigration Files
This series relates primarily to the Colonisation Scheme established under the auspices of Lord Balfour, Secretary for Scotland in 1886 as a response to the congestion and poverty amongst the crofting community. The Scheme concentrated on Lewis an...
Reference code
GB 234 AF51
Date(s)
- 1885-1956 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
George Washington Wilson & Co photographic collection
The George Washington Wilson and Co. photographic collection consists of over 37,000 glass plate negatives, produced by the Aberdeen firm between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.
This includes images from...
Reference code
GB 231 MS 3792
Date(s)
- c1850-1905 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Harris (Tarbert) Ambulance Committee
Minute book 1946-1963
Reference code
GB3002 IN7/2
Date(s)
- 1946-1963 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Harris District Committee, Harris
Minutes 1917-1934 (Harris District Council from 1930); roads minutes 1890-1918, public health minutes 1890-1918
Reference code
GB3002 IN2/1
Date(s)
- 1890-1934 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Harris District Council
Minute books 1934-1975, correspondence 1960-1972, financial records 1931-1975
Reference code
GB3002 IN6/2
Date(s)
- 1931-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Harris Nursing Association
Minute book 1928-1948, letter book 1933-1946
Reference code
GB3002 IN7/1
Date(s)
- 1928-1948 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Harris Parochial Board / Parish Council, Harris, Scotland
Minute books 1863-1930; scroll minute books 1876-1932
Reference code
GB3002 IN5/2
Date(s)
- 1863-1932 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Harris Public Assistance Sub-Committee
Minutes 1932-1956; applications for relief 1949-1965
Reference code
GB3002 IN5/6
Date(s)
- 1932-1965 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
Highlands and Islands Development Board / Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Governance: Constitution 1970-1974, annual reports 1990-1991; corporate plans and strategies 1974-1989; progress reports 1973-1991; board papers and reports 1970-1992; external publications by central government, Highland Regional Council 1964-19...
Reference code
GB 232 D204
Date(s)
- 1882-1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lewis & Harris Estate Plans
Map of Lewis and North Harris showing surveyed routes around Lewis c1920 and Garynahine fisheries c1900; Plan of Leverburgh Harbour 1925
Reference code
GB3002 GD28
Date(s)
- c1900-1925 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lochmaddy Sheriff Court
ORDINARY COURT
1 Roll books (including appeal roll book)
2 Minute books
3 Register of ordinary actions and summary applications ('A' and 'B' registers)
4 Unallocated
5 Extract decree books
6 Processes
7 Unallocated
8 Process transmission, borrowin...
Reference code
GB 234 SC33
Date(s)
- 1836-c1986 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Long Island Combination Poorhouse, Lochmaddy, North Uist
Minute books 1875-1942; letter books 1914-1933; cash books 1910-1930; ledgers 1886-1930
Reference code
GB3002 IN5/9
Date(s)
- 1875-1942 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lord Leverhulme: Business correspondence
The collection consists mainly of subject files containing correspondence. The following provides an overview of what is held
Fishing: Trawlers and conveyance of fish 1918-1923; salmon, kippers, crab and lobster 1918-1924; West and East Coast F...
Reference code
GB 1752 TS 27
Date(s)
- 1903-1925 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
North Harris Trust Estate
Estate maps 1930-[1950]; Chartularies 1821-1985; Croft Rental Ledgers 1919-1999
Reference code
GB GBX TS15
Date(s)
- 1930-1999 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Papers relating to conditions in and administration of Invernessshire and the Western Isles of Scotland
MS 2023/1: Letter, dated 26 March 1817, from Claud Russell, Edinburgh to Rt. Hon. Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. He encloses MS 2023/2, a copy of which was to be presented to the Lords of the Treasury by the Duke of Atholl, request...
Reference code
GB 231 MS 2023
Date(s)
- 1817 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Sir Edward H Scott of North Harris papers
Various papers relating to K Macdonald’s account as factor for Edward H Scott of Harris, 1872-1886, including notes and letters by Macdonald, various vouchers, receipts and accounts collected by Macdonald; papers relating to the construction and m...
Reference code
GB 234 GD1/1159
Date(s)
- 1807-1886 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Stuart & Stuart, Cairns & Co, solicitors
This collection of solicitors papers is not wholly relating to the Outer Hebrides but includes the following of interest to the Western Isles:
GD274/29-38 Lewis papers 1844-1895 including contract for Stornoway court house in 1844; Papers in actio...
Reference code
GB 234 GD274
Date(s)
- c1600-c1900 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Synod of Glenelg
Minutes 1725-1929 (7 volumes)
Reference code
GB 232 CH2/568
Date(s)
- 1725-1929 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Tarbert (Harris) Free Church, United Free
Minutes (Session and Deacon’s Courts) 1882-1910
Communion roll 1873-1907
Reference code
GB 234 CH3/1221
Date(s)
- 1873-1910 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Western Isles Community Education Project (Bernard Van Leer Foundation)
Phase 2 papers 1983-1987; press cuttings c1980-1992; project reporter articles c1985-1986; project reports and education committee papers 1980-1997; education reports and committee papers 1986-1989; Weekly reports from Iain Minty, Sheila Macleod, ...
Reference code
GB3002 GD6
Date(s)
- 1980-1997 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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