Back Issues from the year 1998
Issue 13 - January 1998
Front: "I remember, I remember…….." - a Poem // Bubly Jock - a Poem
Page 2. The Campbeltown and Liverpool Plantation Registers in the Mid 18th
Century - Connexions and Comparisons
Page 3. Dowsing - Has It a Relevance to Archaeology
Page 4. The Firth of Clyde Herring Fishery // Flint-Lighters and Tobacco-
Smokers
Page 5. The Etiquette of Good Society: 2. Excursions and Picnics
Page 6. Bubly Jock
Page 7. William McMurchy
Page 8. The Coast Road North of Tarbert // Roads - Old and New //
The Twa Brigs
Page 9. The Limecraigs Duchess
Page 10. Bits and Bobs incl. St Brendan's Parish Church, Skipness // Scot's
Proverbs // A Sailor's Letter // In Praise of Kintyre - Poem and Prose
Issue 14 - February 1998
Page 2: Major John Campbell ob 1685
Page 3: The Shannons of Lephenstrath // The Port of Machrimore
Page 4: Flora MacDonald in America
Page 5: A Late 18th Century Letter from Campbeltown to America
Page 6: Letter from America (Undated but written about the middle of the 19th
century) to a Brother in Campbeltown whose father farmed at Crossibeg
Page 7: The Duel
Page 8: The Annabella - A Poem
Page 9: A Young Profession in Old Kintyre
Page 10: Bits and Bobs incl. Provosts of Campbeltown // A Brave Sailor //
In, At or Of // A pair of Comics // What's in a Name - 1 //
What's in a Name - 2
Issue 15 - March 1998
Page 2: The North Carolina Settlement of 1739
Page 3: Lifeboat No. 7
Page 4: John Paul Jones and Others - Part 1
Page 5: Archaeological Cannibalism
Page 6: West Highland Mercenaries in Ireland - Part 1
Page 7: Campbeltown Cross
Page 8: Sir William MacKinnon, BT
Page 9: The Stuff Dreams are Made of........
Page 10: Glenbreakerie - A Poem
Issue 16 - April 1998
Page 2: An Early Settler in Canada
Page 3: Irish Heritage
Page 4: Sanda
Page 5: A Parish School
Page 6: Cara - The Brownie's Island
Page 7: Bits and Bobs from The Magazine incl. Shipwreck // Island Devarr-a Poem
// Half a Highlander // Extract from William Brunton letter.
Page 8: The Days of the Drove Roads
Page 9: John Paul Jones and Others - Part 2
Page 10: West Highland Mercenaries in Ireland - Part 2
Issue 17 - May 1998
Page 2: Saddell Castle
Page 3: Acts of Neighbourhood
Page 4: A Cross-Head from Saddell Abbey
Page 5: William McTaggart 1835 - 1910
Page 6: An Eminent Campbeltonian
Page 7: Old Stories Retold // Another Kintyre //
Major General Alasdair MacDonald // The Sailor and the Cat // The Flood //
The Machrihanish Wireless Telegraph Station //
Golf and Religion // Mair Plooin'
Page 8: Campbeltown in the 1715 & 1745 Stewart Uprisings
Page 9: The Mull of Kintyre Fishery
Page 10: Some Thoughts on West Loch Tarbert
Issue 18 - June 1998
Page 2: Westport - Its Geomorphology
Page 3: Sparks and Flashes incl. No cart…. //Kilkerran Epitaphs // Campbeltown
Photographers 1860-1910 // The Post Office - A Complaint
Page 4: James Nicol Fleming of Keil
Page 5: The Quay / Notice ( cock-pit or fighting room)
Page 6: Loup Hill 16 May 1689 - The First 'Battle' of Dundee's Jacobite War Part
1
Page 7: Harping On - Part 1
Page 8: By Hill and Shore
Page 9: Book Review Page - Three Kintyre Books incl. GLENCREGGAN; or a Highland
home in Kintyre by Cuthbert Bede // HISTORY OF KINTYRE by Peter McIntosh //
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SKETCHES IN SCOTLAND: DISTRICT OF KINTYRE // CAMPBELTOWN CHURCHES
& CAMPBELTOWN DISTILLERIES // MACTAVISH of DUNARDRY // KINTYRE COUNTRY LIFE by
Angus Martin
Page 10: St Brendan's Parish Church, Skipness // The Voyages of the "Peggies" -
1753-1762
Issue 19 - July 1998
Page 2 Loup Hill. 16th MAY 1689 - The First 'Battle'of Dundee's Jacobite War -
Part 2
Page 3 Harping On - Part 2
Page 4 The Perseverance // Share Fishing
Page 5 The Carradale Shark Fishery
Page 6 Bits and Bobs - Scot's Saws and Here and There incl. The Bell // Somerled
Lives On // A Skipness Story // Trouble in Skipness - 1805
Page 7 Three Lochs in North Kintyre
Page 8 By Hill and Shore - Angus Martin's continuing delightful series
Page 9 The Book Review Page - 6 Books Reviewed incl. LIST OF THE INHABITANTS
UPON THE DUKE OF ARGYLE'S PROPERTY IN KINTYRE IN 1792 // SKIPNESS, by Angus
Graham // STRATHCLYDE'S SMUGGLING STORY, by Frances Wilkins // SCOTTISH CUSTOMS
AND EXCISE RECORDS, by Frances Wilkins // OBAN PREHISTORY and OBAN PAST AND
PRESENT, by Charles Hunter // FLORA MACDONALD: THE MOST LOYAL REBEL, by Hugh
Douglas
Page 10 Coopering in Campbeltown: Developing a "Craft" Archaeology
Issue 20 - August 1998
Front: Highland Mary - a Poem by Robert Burns
Page 2: Twentieth Century Changes in an Isolated Parish
Page 3: Habit and Repute
Page 4: The Kintyre Club
Page 5: Highland Mary - Saint or Sinner?
Page 6: The Campbeltown Meal Riots of 1801 // The Bear // Cholera in Campbeltown
in 1832 // The Society's Outdoor Activities //
Distressing Boating Accident at Westport - Five Lives Lost
Page 7: Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Page 8: By Hill and Shore - More from the country pen of Mr.Angus Martin
Page 9: Journey to the South Magnetic Pole
Page 10: The Largieside Distillers
Issue 21 - September 1998
Page 2: Half a Highlander // North Carolina 1739-1989 (short) // Ring Net
Fishing (short)
Page 3: The Lowland Church Baptismal Basin // The Lowland Church Baptismal Laver
Page 4: Seventeenth Century Agricultural Tenancys in Kintyre
Page 5: A Miniature Volcano
Page 6: The Private Journal of Robert Picken, Smerby, 1810-1840
Page 7: After Culloden // A Melder Wi' the Miller
Page 8: By Hill and Shore - Another foray from the pen of Mr. Angus Martin
Page 9: Three Interesting e-mails and some Bits and Bobs incl. A Fitting
Punishment for an Erring Horse // Macharioch House….
Page 10: Researching your Family History - I // Researching your Family History
- II
Issue 22 - October 1998
Page 2: A Maker of Illicit Stills
Page 3: Campbeltown's Protestant Churches - A Brief History
Page 4: Some Descendants of Lachlan McNeill Buidhe
Page 5: Kintyre's "Subtropical" Image // Psalm Practice Verses
Page 6: The Blues of North Kintyre
Page 7: The Evolution of Gaelic Surnames in Kintyre
Page 8: By Hill and Shore - Meanders from Mr. Angus Martin
Page 9: One Interesting e-mail // Machrihanish to Southend - The Townships //
The Society's Library // Gigha - A New Survey // The Tourist Business // Local
Men Everywhere // Even here! // How's that!
Page 10: The McShannons of Kintyre - Harpers to Tacksmen
Issue 23 - November 1998
The Obituary of A.I.B. Stewart 1915 - 1998
Issue 24 - December 1998
Wee Drams
Page 2: A Presidential Brush-off // Family History
Page 3: The Bronze Age Cist Burials at Monybachach, Skipness
Page 4: Campbeltown's Glasgow Face
Page 5: A Beached Sowerby's Whale // Somerled Lives On
Page 6: The Ritchies of Sanda Island
Page 7: The Haldanes in Kintyre
Page 8: By Hill and Shore - Delights from Mr. Angus Martin
Page 9: Two Interesting e-mails // Tropical Beans // Some Bits and Bobs incl.
Inscription in Stewarton (Ayrshire) Old Churchyard // A Skipness Story // A
GENEALOGY of the MACKAYS of UGADALE // The Gathering
Page 10: The Wm Low Supermarket // Carradale Rental 1724
The A.I.B. Stewart Page:
Introduction
Fish and Fowl and Good Red Herring
Dr Johnson and John Paul Jones