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Using School Records for Research

Our Highland School Records include Admission Registers, Log Books, Feu Charters and Minute Books. They come from hundreds of schools and school boards and management committees. They can also include photographs and other school documentation. School Records can be used for a wide variety of research purposes including finding out if/when someone attended school, discovering what… Read more »Read more

Lochaber and North Argyll Family History Group

Christine Wood, Archivist at the Highland Archive Centre in Inverness, gave a evening talk on Tuesday 10th January 2017 to members of the Lochaber and North Argyll Family History Group in Fort William. Ten members enjoyed a presentation on the many kinds of archive resources available for consultation at the Lochaber Archive Centre which is located at… Read more »Read more

Diary of FRANCIS PALMER ASTLEY (1825-1868), kept during a voyage he made in 1846, when he sailed to Iceland and crossed the island on horseback. Francis Astley later bought Arisaig estate (in 1852) and his descendants, the Astley-Nicholsons, owned it until 1956

‘After crossing the river for seven or 8 miles we kept crossing dreary swells of oldish lava, very barren, there being large patches of stones and sand without any vegetation and the rest showing moss of the same sort as found in the Cairngorms and a few plants, all most all of them very small… Read more »Read more

Contemporary copy Memorial by exiled Jacobite leaders SIR HECTOR MACLEAN and JOHN CAMERON OF LOCHIEL in Paris, to FRANCIS ATTERBURY, exiled Bishop of Rochester and Jacobite agent, to be communicated to JAMES STUART (King James VIII and II to Jacobites, referred to as ‘the King’ here), 28 May 1725

‘Memorial given to the Bp. of Rochester by Sir Hector MacLean and Lochiel. Dated at Paris 28th May 1725 Sir Hector MacLean and Lochiel being asked by the Bishop of Rochester what they thought might be of use to the King’s better Information in the present situation of the Highlands; whereby he may the more… Read more »Read more

POTATO FAMINE IN THE WEST HIGHLANDS 1846

Minutes of the Parochial Board of Kilmallie, 29 September 1846, stating that the potato crop in the area was completely diseased and that there was not enough food in the parish to feed everyone for longer than 6 weeksRead more

Letter from COLONEL WILLIAM BRAYNE, first Governor of the Fort of Inverlochy during the English occupation of Scotland, to Lord Protector OLIVER CROMWELL, 12 July 1654, concerning supplies needed at Inverlochy

‘May it please your Highness The men of Warr which are ordered to attend on this Coast doe stand in need of many necessarys, which they cannot bee furnished with all at Liverpool; without an espesiall order; therefore I humbly begg your HIghnesse order to Alderman Walley and Victuallers there; that hee may furnish them… Read more »Read more