My husband Donald Mitchell had three grandparents from Tiree. Two from Caolis and one from Balevullin. The Caolis Tree begins about the mid 1700s with McLeans, two separate McFadyen families and McDonalds. Throughout I have used "Mc" as sometimes the same family was "Mac" or "Mc" depending on who was compiling the register and I have used "McFadyen" for all the various spellings of that name. One really interesting item of family history relates to John McLean who was born about 1740 and lived to be 107. This is recorded on the side of his grandson's headstone in Kirkapol Graveyard and reads "At their side lies his grandfather who died at the age of 107". Also in the Caolis Tree is Neil McLean born about 1820. Neil is a nephew of John McLean known in Scotland as the Laird of Coll's poet and also known as Bard McLean. See pages 338 to 340 of The Clan Gillean by A. MacLean Sinclair The Balevullin Tree begins with Alexander Gillies (born about 1790) who came to Tiree from Mull with his wife Mary McLucash and family prior to 1841 and John Kennedy. Alexander Gillies's daughter Catherine married John Kennedy's son Donald. Nanette Mitchell