Hi Dorothy The Oban Times is the paper which usually had Islay obituaries around 1880. It certainly had ones for two of my great-grandfathers. http://www.obantimes.co.uk/ The Oban Times, P.O. Box 1, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4HB, Scotland, phone (01631)568000 fax (01631) 568001 The bad news is that to find the details I had to go to the offices myself and look through the archives. That was about 25 years ago, so maybe things have improved. Good luck! Seymour Hosking (Cameron/Dunne/Kennedy)