Volume contents
- 1 - Dunrossness - Fair I , title page
- 3 - Dunrossness - Fair I , page 3 (start)
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- 93 - Dunrossness - Fair I , Notes on proprietors, fishing etc
- 95 - Dunrossness - Fair I , index
Continued entries/extra info
[Page] 30
Parish of Dunrossness Fair Isle, Shetland
[Signed]
John Durran
Sapper R.E. [Royal Engineers]
[Description continued from page 29]
run a Smack every fortnight weather permitting. The whole coast is wild and precipitous and there are only two points at which a landing can be effected.
The height of the Island makes it a sort of beacon in clear weather, but when [shrouded] in mist it becomes vey dangerous and proves fatal to many a gallant Bark. In the year [1588] one of the Ships composing the Spanish Armada was wrecked in a Creek called Swartz Goe and in 1868 during a thick fog a German emigrant vessel [went] full sail into one of the narrow Creeks which abound around [its] coast.
There is a School on the Island and a place of worship in connection with the [Established] Church as well as a small Methodist Chapel. The inhabitants as a rule are kind and obliging to Strangers but shrewd business men
[Additional notes read]
"The Lessing" She sailed into Geo Claver & jammed up the geo; the passengers were taken in boats through a natural arch to the beach at Haswalls and dragged up the slope there by ropes
[Intd [?]] J.C.M
Wesleyan
[Intd [?]] J.C.M
Transcriber's notes
Words partially obscured n fold surmised and shown in [ ].
The date 1588 confirmed from Wikipedia - the name of the vessel was El Gran Grifon.
The abbreviation "Int" in the online OED is given to the word "interjection" - "Intd" could be "Interjected".
The initials J.C.M appended to the notes probably belong to James Cosmo MacPherson, a Captain in the Royal engineers.
Ordnance Survey - Shetland county, OS Name Books - Shetland county - Volume 11 - Parish of Dunrossness, OS1/31/11
This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Dunrossness.
Ordnance Survey - Shetland county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Shetland, which is in the north of Scotland.