Verified Clearance dates, numbers of people and places are very difficult to obtain as the vast majority went unrecorded. A few that have verified are:

Year 1783 1793 1794 1796 1780-1832 1790 1801 1801 1801 1801-06 1802 1802 1803 1803 1803 1807 1807 1810 1810 1810 1812-15 1813 1814 1819 1820 1820 1821-81 1825 1826 1826 1827 1828-86 1828 1828 1828 1831-41 1831-41 1831-81 1831-81 1834-53 1838 1838 1839 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840-48 1840-83 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841-45 1841-81 1841-81 1845 1848 1849 1849 1849 1849 1849 1849-81 1850 1850 1851 1851-61 1853 1881

Number of People 300 500 250 358 2,300 2,500 799 700 100 10,000 1,151 250 800 500 5,390 350 300 90 250 250 15,000 580 2,150 3,331 3,780 600 4,988 1,500 1,000 400 1,000 350 130 400 300 2,500 974 600 39,892 2,500 1,300 360 2,300 500 600 2,000 1,000 500 34,700 750 353 80 229 1,500 1,954 766 80 26 603 750 247 500 603 309 5,000 110 1,700 2,231 150 257

District Knoydart Isle of South Usit Eddrachillis Uig Uig Isle of Skye Strathglass West Invernesshire Isle Martin West Highlands Isle of South Uist Isle of South Uist Isle of South Uist Strathglass West coast glens Far Lairg Tain Farr Letterfearn Sutherland Kildonan Strathnaver Sutherland Sutherland Culrain Isle of Mull Isle of Skye Isle of Mull Isle of Rhum Isle of Lewis Isle of Arran Ardnamurchan Isle of Rhum Isle of Coll Breadalbane Glenorchy Rannoch Rural Arygllshire Breadalbane Isle of North Uist Coigach Isle of Harris Strathconan Isle of Ulva Isle of Mull Isle Tiree Strathconon Isle of Skye Isle of Coll Durness Easter Ross Isle of Lewis Strathcarron Isle of Tiree Isle of Coll Tain Kilfinichen Sollas Isle of South Uist Isle of Tiree Glenelg Isle of North Uist Isle of North Uist Highlanders to Australia Tingwall, entire villages Isle of Barra Isle of Lewis Sushnish (3rd time) Isle of Iona

Areas and Island verified as having at some time been totally Cleared.

1804-1862

Strathglass, Clenorchy, Reay, Morven, Mull of Kintyre, North Ballachulish, Isle of Much, Isle of Rhum, Isle of Canna, Black Isle, Isle of Ulva, Isle of Iona, Mishnish, Isle of Ling, Dervaig, Isle of Isay, Treshnish.

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Part One: Background
Part Two: Highland Portrait
Part Three: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Part Four: The Clearances
Part Five: The Improvements
Part Six: The Sutherland Estate
Part Seven: The People and the Church
Part Eight: US Slave-Owners
Part Nine: Queen Victoria and Red Deer
Part Ten: 1840-1880 Eyewitness Accounts
Part Eleven: Famine!
Part Twelve: Famine Immigration
Part Thirteen: Forced Eviction to the Cities
Part Fourteen: Changing Ways
Part Fifteen: Things Change Yet Remain The Same
Appendix A: Highland Clearances, Dates & Places
Appendix B: Bibliography