No. Tenant Qty Rent Remarks 1 Angus Smith 4.0 £ 5.10.0 Requires draining. Angus Maclean substituted 2 Norman Macleod Jr 4.0 £ 4.10.0 Requires draining. Peter Macleod substituted 3 Malcolm Macdonald 4.0 £ 4.10.0 Requires draining and trenching 4 Donald Smith 4.0 £ 5.10.0 Requires draining and trenching. Kennth Morrison substituted 5 Angus Maclean (Donald) [...]
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Mangersta, like most occupied townships in Lewis, was relotted in 1849, with 15 crofts laid out and tenancies and rents allocated. Here we give the full tenant list for 1849-50, with tenancy and family changes up to the (voluntary) clearing of the village in 1872, when the people went mostly to Doune Carloway.
Read more →The Congested Districts Board was established by the Congested Districts (Scotland) Act of 1897, on the model of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland, to improve industries and infrastructure in the crofting counties which suffering from overpopulation and poverty (see Powers below). Initially 56 parishes or parts of parishes in the north, west and islands [...]
Read more →The late 1840s were years of desperation in Lewis (as elsewhere), with much of the population near to starvation and dependent on ‘destitution meal’ from the Proprietor, Sir James Matheson, who according to the Poor Law Act of 1845 was obliged to do something about his famished tenants. Weakened, overcrowded and in many cases without [...]
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Read more →Christina Mackay Donald and Murdag John Macleod Iain Bhill and Donnachadh Fionnlaidh Calum Macaulay 9 Mangersta Dummy and Finlay Padruig and Seonag Mothach Two Donalds Mangersta Zinc Murdanie Morrison 2 Mangersta John Matheson John Macleod Donald Morrison Cutting Peats A Mangersta Lady Donald Buchanan DSM and family Mangersta Ladies Unidentified Chirsty Macaulay and Angus Murdanie [...]
Read more →The following marriages, all involving at least one Mangersta family, are extracted from the Old Parish Register of the Established Church in Uig. Not all marriages were registered and the date may refer to the calling of banns, rather than an actual wedding. Donald Macdonald son of Angus Macdonald and Peggy Maclean at Mangersta, to [...]
Read more →The following marriages, all involving at least one Carnish family, are extracted from the Old Parish Register of the Established Church in Uig. Not all marriages were registered and the date may refer to the calling of banns, rather than an actual wedding. Donald Macleod son of Norman Macleod and Cursty Macleod at Carnish, to [...]
Read more →Tenants at Mangersta in 1867, from Estate papers. These tenants left Mangersta in 1873-74 and many settled in Doune Carloway. No. Tenant Rent 1 Angus Maclean (Malcolm) £ 6.1.0 2 Peter Macleod £ 3.7.0 3 Malcolm Macdonald £ 5.3.0 4 Kenneth Morison £ 3.18.0 5 John Macleod £ 2.15.0 6 Kenneth Maclean £ 3.16.0 7 [...]
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This drawing of Stac Dhomhnaill Chaim – the fortified rock on the Mangersta coast, in which Donald Cam Macaulay lived – is from 1849 and shows the crumbly access to the stack even then.
Read more →Mangersta tenants with their rent and accumulated arrears in 1824; from Seaforth papers. Tenant Rent Arrears Malcolm Smith £ 13.9.3 £ 60.3.6½ Malcolm Maclean £ 9.5.11 £ 42.7.0 Angus Roy Maclean £ 4.15.3 £ 21.8.10 Angus Macleod £ 9.5.6 £ 52.7.0 Angus Maclean & Flora Macaulay £ 6.19.3 £ 35.0.0 Angus Macdonald £ 13.19.3 £ [...]
Read more →There had evidently been a small school at Mangersta in the 1820s and in the neighbouring village of Carnish in the 1840s, but when both those townships were turned into farms there was no population requiring a school, until 1911.
Read more →From a statement lodged with the Crofters Commission by the Estate management in November 1888, showing alterations made over farms in Lewis, with the occupancy and rent of each during the period 1844-1888. Mealista, Keannhusly and Island Mealista 1844-49 Alex and John MacRae £80.0.0 1850 do. £105.0.0 1860 do. £120.0.0 1870 John Mitchell £130.0.0 1886-87 [...]
Read more →From the Stornoway Gazette, 7 July 1959: The Commanding Officer of the R.A.F. station at Aird Uig has expressed gratitude to gamekeeper Donald Morrison of Mangersta, who on Tuesday found an airman who had been missing from the station. The man was Senior Aircraftsman Thomas Douglas, who was on Wednesday reported to be “quite alright” [...]
Read more →[singlepic=1119,827] From the Stornoway Gazette supplement, 18 December 1959. Wedding bells have been ringing in Mangersta for the past year. Cupid started at one end of the village leaving a spate of marriages in his trail. The most recent of these was solemnised in the East Church, Inverness, on the 10th November when Mary Morrison, [...]
Read more →[singlepic=1042,724] Miss Ina Macdonald, Ardbheag, is of course now our Mrs Ina Macdonald, Islivig. More on the side schools here. Share
Read more →Mangersta (probably “Magnus’s steading”) was cleared at the same time as Mealista, in 1837-38, to make way for sheep. It was resettled but then cleared again in 1872, when the temporary settlers mostly removed to Doune Carloway at their own request, due to the difficulties they were having with blowing salt spray. The farm at [...]
Read more →The press release (3 November 2009) from the Uig community on the announcement of the St Kilda Centre decision. Detail of the Uig vision for Ionad Hiort is now on its own page, where updates will also appear. The community group in the Uig area of Lewis which has promoted the area’s claim to host [...]
Read more →This short video by Ged Yeates was part of Uig’s proposal for the St Kilda Centre – spectacular even in the face of Youtube compression. Share
Read more →After months of consultation, Mangurstadh in Uig has been recommended as the preferred site for the proposed St Kilda Centre. From Hebrides News: Following an independent feasibility study, funded by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and LEADER, the St Kilda Centre Working Group has announced the recommendations made by Jura Consultants in [...]
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