Download or read book Argyll and Bute written by Frank Arneil Walker and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buildings of Scotland, will, when complete, guide the reader to all buildings of significance in Scotland. In each volume, a gazetteer describes and interprets buildings and developments of all dates and kinds, from ancient brochs and Roman forts to medieval abbeys and castles, classical country houses, Victorian churches, farms and factories, and twentieth-century tower blocks. An introduction explains the broader context, while maps, plans and a central section of over a hundred photographs bring the buildings into closer focus. Comprehensive indexes and an illustrated glossary that includes many Scottish terms turn these indispensable travelling companions into accessible reference works.
Download or read book Argyll People written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Argyll and Bute Guide written by Argyll and Bute (Scotland). Council and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Isle of Bute in the Olden Time written by James King Hewison and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The People of Argyll Bute and Dunbarton at Home and Abroad 1800 1850 written by David Dobson and published by Clearfield. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The counties of Argyll, Bute, and Dunbarton lie roughly northwest of Glasgow from the Firth of Clyde to the Firth of Lorne, together with Mull and some smaller islands. Most of the people identified here were recorded in contemporary sources, such as court records, newspapers, journals, and monumental inscriptions. Most entries bring together emigrants, their places of origin and destination, especially in North America and Australasia, with their kin who remained in Scotland. This book also identifies many of the burgesses of the burghs of Dunbarton ad Inveraray. The major families or clans found in this region were Campbell, McDonald, McLean, MacAulay, Galbraith, McLachlan, Malcolm, McMillan, McEwan, McDougall, McQuarrie, McKinnon, McGregor, McIntyre, McFarlane, Colquhoun, Lamont, and Buchanan. The early 19th century was a period of restructuring and development resulting from the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Small farms were formed into larger units, which created a labor surplus. Some of the displaced persons emigrated to the British colonies or the United States, while others moved to the factory towns of the nearby industrial districts. In Argyll, Bute, and Dunbarton the economy remained largely based on farming and fishing, but there was an expansion of burghs functioning as market and administrative centers.
Download or read book The People of Argyll Bute and Dunbarton 1600 1699 written by David Dobson and published by Clearfield. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17th-century Scottish emigration from Argyll, Bute, and western Dnnbartonshire to Ireland, Nova Scotia, New England, New Jersey, Jamaica, and Barbados.
Download or read book Argyll and Bute written by Frank Arneil Walker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Argyll Book written by Donald Omand and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of over twenty chapters by recognized experts, covering a huge range of topics which provide a lively and informed introduction to this fascinating area.
Download or read book The Healing Springs of Argyll written by Alex Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing springs have played a significant role in the folklore of many cultures in most geographical regions. In Scotland, these natural features are referred to as 'holy wells' and some have been venerated since pagan times. In introducing the 'holy wells' of Argyll and Bute in western Scotland, this book examines, with the aid of GIS techniques, the archaeological landscape surrounding these 'monuments' spanning from the Neolithic to the present day; it also provides information about their geological and hydrological setting. The book sets out to address a single question: what made those 'holy wells' holy; although the answer is complex, multi-tiered and often unsatisfactory, it is clear that once a 'healing' attribute, whether physical or spiritual, is attached to a particular natural spring, communal will, from the elite to the ordinary people, have been reluctant to remove it. The second part of the book is in the form of a guidebook. While the first part aims to bring the landscape to the reader, the second part aims to achieve the opposite.0Via a number of clearly laid-out itineraries, each with a particular 'holy well' as its focus, the book highlights the wells' positions with respect to known domestic, ritual or burial monuments. The visitor is thereby made aware of the geological, historical and archaeological landscape that surrounds each natural spring. The healing springs of Argyll have been recorded to an archaeological standard, and are presented in an accessible manner.
Download or read book Argyll and the Western Isles written by James Neil Graham Ritchie and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a variety of monuments in keeping with a past dominated by the sea - both as a means of transport and as a livelihood. From Skerryvore lighthouse to the mysterious standing stones of Callanish, it explores how people have lived over the centuries in the area.
Download or read book Argyll Rough Guides Snapshot Scotland includes Loch Fyne Mull Bute Arran Islay and Jura Staffa Iona and Colonsay written by Donald Reid and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide Snapshot Argyll is the ultimate travel guide to this picturesque part of Scotland. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from dramatic Duart Castle to eccentric Mount Stuart and the legendary island of Iona to the basalt cliffs of Staffa. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, pubs and bars, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands and Islands, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around this beautiful region of Scotland, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, festivals and outdoor activities. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands and Islands. Full coverage: Cowal, Isle of Bute, Inveraray, Oban and around, Isle of Mull, Isle of Iona, Coll and Tiree, Isle of Colonsay, Kilmartin Glen, Kintyre, Isle of Arran, Isle of Islay and the Isle of Jura. (Equivalent printed page extent 104 pages).
Download or read book Walks in Argyll and Bute written by Mary Welsh and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration 1725 1775 written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 Clearfield Company launched a new series of books by David Dobson designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that began in the 1730s and intensified thereafter. Much of the Highland emigration was directly related to a breakdown in social and economic institutions. Under the pressures of the commercial and industrial revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, Highland chieftains abandoned their patriarchal role in favor of becoming capitalist landlords. By raising farm rents to the breaking point, the chiefs left the social fabric of the Scottish Highlands in tatters. Accordingly, voluntary emigration by Gaelic-speaking Highlanders began in the 1730s. The social breakdown was intensified by the failure of the Jacobite cause in 1745, followed by the British military occupation and repression in the Highlands in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden. In 1746, the British government dispatched about 1,000 Highland Jacobite prisoners of war to the colonies as indentured servants. Later, during the Seven YearsΓ War of 1756Γ 1763, Highland regiments recruited in the service of the British crown chose to settle in Canada and America rather than return to Scotland. Once in North America, the Highlanders tended to be clannish and moved in extended family groups, unlike immigrants from the Lowlands who moved as individuals or in groups of a few families. The Gaelic-speaking Highlanders tended to settle on the North American frontier, whereas the Lowlanders merged with the English on the coast. Highlanders seem to have established Γ beachheads,Γ ? and their kin subsequently followed. The best example of this pattern is in North Carolina, where they first arrived in 1739 and moved to the Piedmont, to be followed by others for over a century. Another factor that distinguishes research in Highland genealogy is the availability of pertinent records. Scottish genealogical research is generally based on the parish registers of the Church of Scotland, which provide information on baptisms and marriages. In the Scottish Lowlands, such records can date back to the mid-16th century, but, in general, Highland records start much later. Americans seeking their Highland roots, therefore, face the problem that there are few, if any, church records available that pre-date the American Revolution. In the absence of Church of Scotland records, the researcher must turn to a miscellany of other records, such as court records, estate papers, sasines, gravestone inscriptions, burgess rolls, port books, services of heirs, wills and testaments, and especially rent rolls. This series is designed to identify the kinds of records that are available in the absence of parish registers and to supplement the church registers when they are available. This newest volume covers the Northern Highlands, an area that includes the counties of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross, and Cromarty. The main clans traditionally associated with the Northern Highlands were: Mackay, McLeod, Sutherland, Sinclair, Gunn, Munro, Ross, and Mackenzie, all of whom are represented in this volume. The Northern Highlanders were among the pioneers of colonial Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, and the Canadian Maritimes. Among the vessels that brought them to these places were the Hector to Nova Scotia in 1773, the Friendship to Philadelphia in 1774, and the Peace and Plenty to New York in 1774. While the present volume is not a comprehensive directory of all people living in the Northern Highlands during the mid-18th century, it does pull together references to more than 2,100 18th-century inhabitants. In all cases, Dr. Dobson gives each HighlanderΓ s name, a place name or county within the Highlands, a date (of birth, residence, etc.), and the source. In the majority of cases, we also learn the identities of relatives, the indiv
