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Jura Lives Project

December 22, 2013 by Ron Leave a Comment

Jura Lives interviewed people over a two-year period about their living memories of the island of Jura in Argyll and Bute. It resulted in over 180 hours of audio recordings. By hosting some of the highlights from this collection, Scran is enabling access to a great resource for finding out about how life has changed on the island since World War One for residents and visitors … [Read more...] about Jura Lives Project

Jura Voices from the Past

December 7, 2012 by Ron 1 Comment

On Jura recently, they’ve been hearing voices of friends who have passed on. The oral history project that is currently running on the island has gained access to cassette tapes made in the early 1990s, featuring some of the icons of previous generations. Gordon Wright, keen local historian once of the Jura Hotel, and Dr Joan Johnson, herself a well-loved character, had the … [Read more...] about Jura Voices from the Past

Knockrome and Ardfernal Crofting Townships

September 23, 2012 by Ron Leave a Comment

Just outside Craighouse where the Corran River flows under the Three Arches Bridge is a right turn from the main road to a beautiful part of Jura. If you follow this road you eventually end up on a wee hill at Ardfernal offering great panoramic views over the island. I want to share a beautiful panorama image of that view together with some information and historic photo's from … [Read more...] about Knockrome and Ardfernal Crofting Townships

Jura Genealogy – Trace your Jura Ancestors

November 19, 2009 by Ron 24 Comments

Between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries many crofters in the Scottish Highlands were forced to continue crofting on inferior lands and many of them chose to emigrate, often to countries such as the US and Canada. For some reason, not known to me, many people that migrated from Jura ended up in North Carolina. This forced movement of people is known as "The … [Read more...] about Jura Genealogy – Trace your Jura Ancestors

Jura Paupers Houses

October 26, 2009 by Ron Leave a Comment

A while back Gavin pointed out a beautiful collection of old Jura images and when I revisited the site I had a closer look at images from Knockrome and Ardfernal. One of the images that raised my interest was a very old one of the Paupers' Houses dating back 1901. Let me first show you the image and the text belonging to that image:The Paupers' Houses The 1861 census … [Read more...] about Jura Paupers Houses

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