Bits & Pieces of Raw Data

No guarantees here, just raw, unprocessed data files - but you never know what you may find...

• Notes from a lecture by Dr. David Caldwell, about families of Islay
• Newspaper articles regarding the Round Church, and a bit of MacGilchrist information
• Here's the 1836 Islay Tenants Rental List.  Thanks to Helen Campbell Blair
• A page listing Farms/Crofts on Islay - also from Mac Gillespie
• Here's a page with Kilchoman Islay Rentals 1733 - 1741 - from Mac Gillespie
• Transcribed OPR files for Argyll, Bowmore, Kildalton - marriages, baptisms - covering the 1700s to 1800s in various files - courtesy of Jack Puttenham
• Transcribed from 1886 and 1889 records, the "Rolls of Paupers and the Casual Poor", thanks to Sue Visser
• The "Account of the Population of Kildalton Parish", taken in 1860 - here's the detailed account, and here's the statistical information from the detailed account.  Thanks to Miriam Stefansson
• Created through the efforts of many volunteers, I-SPY is a collection of information about persons born on Scotland's Isle of Islay, who emigrated to other lands. It may include obituaries, cemetery transcriptions, marriage announcements, or other snippets of information we've happened across that mention these Islay natives.  Thanks to Tamara Gilhuly for her work on this project!
• The Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi lists each parish, then gives some details on the parish and follows that with a list of each minister serving that parish from the 1600's through the 1920's
• Here is a journal from Donald Sinclair, school-master, from the years 1835 - 1875, transcribed by Susan Sinclair.  It mentions the names of his pupils, their father's names, neighbors, ministers, how much nails cost...
• Extract from the Register of Fishing Boats (Irish Line - Skiffs) on Islay, registered at Campbeltown 1898 - 1927.   This spreadsheet is an extract of these Registers kept in Campbeltown, which indicate each boat’s type, builder, and date/where built, owner(s), number of men who worked the boat, its dimensions, rigging, and whether fished by net and/or lines. As with most of the goods brought onto the island, the boats were made in Northern Ireland, with many of the boatbuilders centred around Port Rush.  Thanks to Iain MacIntosh

Various surname specific information and census extracts

• 1841 census extract for Fergusons on Islay - from Sheila Fields
• Ferguson names in Scotland 1782 - 1863 (Kilchoman Parish) - from Edie Ferguson
• Information on Gilchrists on Islay - from Steve Gilchrist
• Information on Gillespies on Islay - from Mac Gillespie
• All the Gillespie births listed in the OPR - from Richard Sheil
• 1841 census extract for McAlister and McIndeor on Islay - from Sheila Fields
• A website for McDiarmid research - thanks to Sandy McDiarmid
• 1841 census extract for McDougall/McDougald/McLugash on Islay - from Sheila Fields

Here you will find data files, generally spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel format.  You can download them to your computer, or you can simply view them with your browser if it is configured properly.

• The "Black Book" - List of Tenants on the Estate of Islay, 1828, from John Ramsey's records.  Thanks to Toni Sinclair for transcribing this!  Available in original order -  alphabetized - and also available for viewing on this website
• Transcription of LDS Death Records, 1855 - 1875, listed in alphabetical order according to surname, thanks to Ted Larson!  Click here for more details
• James Maxwell has taken Ted's LDS Death Records for 1855 - 1875, and created a spreadsheet that is very easy to use, sorted by year, and parish!  Click here for the file
• A compilation of data from this website, from Simon Sutherland, many files neatly tucked into one spreadsheet - click here for more information before you download this file.
• Islay Civil Registration for Marriages, 1855 - 1875 + 1881 & 1891.  Thanks to Monta Salmon for this transcription