Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with music, of the Island of Scalpay, Scottish Gaelic: Sgalpaigh or Sgalpaigh na Hearadh, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Outer Hebrides. The vast majority of the locals in Scalpay are Protestants. Scalpay is home to many Gaelic singers and psalm precentors. The land of Scalpay is poor; peat, bog, stone. As a community, then, she is most modern. Until islanders turned their hearts from corn to fish there was little attraction to Scalpay. She was a '' tack '', a rented farm, supporting one or two families; the most famous tacksman was Donald Campbell, who in the summer of 1746 gave Scalpay shelter to Charles Edward Stuart. In the 1840s, the Clearances came to Harris, and green Atlantic shores were swept of people. Most vanished to the Americas or to Cape Breton, Canada. Some crofters were removed to the bleak bays of East Harris. And 20 families were settled on Scalpay, in 1843; 20 more were settled in 1848, including some cleared from Pabbay. By the 1950's they were widely recognised as the best fishermen of the West Highlands. By the height of the herring-boom in the 1960's, Scalpay had the highest per capita income of any community in Britain. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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