Homepage Tiree Cemetery Records Births, Baptisms & Marriages Overseas Cemetery Records Tiree Links Genealogical Records Research Interests Tiree Censuses Statistics of Tiree & Coll Born-in-Tiree They Came From Tiree Tiree and the Famine Emigrants A History, 7000 B.C. - 1851 by Gene Donald Lamont Revised Edition 2007 The document is divided into 11 sections or chapters, each stored in its own file. To download a section or chapter, click on its blue link in the table below. Table of Contents Introduction     Title Page     Table of Contents     List of Tables     List of Appendices     Acknowledgments     Preface to the First Edition     Preface to the Revised Edition i-viii Chapter One The Island and Its People     Geology and Climate     The People and the Past 1-6 Chapter Two Ancient Tiree     Stone Age Inhabitants     The Celts     The Norse 7-12 Chapter Three The Maclean Years     Under the Lordship of the Isles     Clan MacLean Independent 13-25 Chapter Four The Campbell Takeover     The Campbells Target the MacLeans     The Coming of the Campbells 26-30 Chapter Five Economic Woes     Deteriorating Conditions     Kelp - Boom and Bust 31-40 Chapter Six Famine and Farewell     The Potato Famine     Migration and Emigration     The Bitter Aftermath 41-49 Chapter Seven The Early Years of the Ontario Settlements     The Emigrant Communities     Carving Homes Out of the Wilderness 50-55 Appendices     The Origin of Tiree Township Names     Tiree Males Capable of Bearing Arms, 1716     Inhabitants of Tiree, 1779     Inhabitants of Tiree, 1787     1841 Census of Tiree     Tiree Emigrants of July 1851 - Ships Conrad, Birman & Onyx     Some Householders of U.S.S. #3 56-63 Sources     64-65 Index     66-69