Coast And Beaches With Music On Visit To North Uist Outer Hebrides Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of coast, sandy beaches and sand dunes on ancestry visit to North Uist, Outer Hebrides. North Uist is the tenth largest Scottish island. It was hit hard during the Highland Clearances, and there was large scale emigration from the island to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. North Uist surnames affected during the clearances were the MacAulay, Morrison, MacCodrum, MacCuish, and MacDonald. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit. North Uist measures some 18 miles from east to west by 12 miles from north to south. North Uist was granted by King James IV to the Macdonalds of Sleat, in Skye in 1495. They sold the island in 1855, but not before they cleared many of the tenants from their homes to make room for sheep. The population of North Uist, which had stood at 3,870 in 1841, started a steady decline that saw it reach 1,404 in 1991, 1,271 in 2001, and 1,254 in 2011 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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