1884

Shetland's rate of 4 1/2 illegitimate births per hundred ranks among the lowest of all districts in a report by The Registrar-General for Scotland.
The number of turkeys in the isles was 86, geese 4463, ducks 7368, and poultry 87,113. Annual export of eggs around this time was estimated to be £30,000 a year.
Shetland Knitters Repository set up in Edinburgh under the patronage of Lady Aberdeen with the aim of providing knitters with an outlet for selling their goods free of truck.

February

5th & 8th
Charles Rampini, Sheriff-Substitute of Caithness, Orkney and Zetland, delivers two lectures on Shetland and the Shetlanders to the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, later published by William Peace & Son of Kirkwall.

10th
The Skarphenden, a wooden hulled schooner of and for Iceland on her maiden voyage from Copenhagen, Denmark with a mixed general cargo wrecked at Dunrossness. Three of the crew were saved, two were lost.

1st
The Danish barque Alba of Copenhagen, with a general cargo, was wrecked on the Flaeshens of Sandwick.

19th
Peter Fraser (1884-1966), musician and founder member of the Shetland Fiddlers' Society, was born at Finnigirth, Walls.

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