I have extracted data from an official publication that had been created following the 1931 Census and which tabulated the population by all the Civil Parishes in Scotland.
The graph shows (apologies for the lack of labels on the x-axis!) how the population of the parish fluctuated over that 130-year period. All the islands that had once been in the domain of the MacLeods of Dunvegan and Harris are included which is why these figures may not always tally with those seen elsewhere.
As we draw close to the 100th anniversary of the start in 1923 of the mass emigrations of the 1920s, evoked in particular by the names 'Metagama' and 'Marloch', we can clearly their impact on the population of Harris.
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