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Old Photograph Kirkbean Scotland
Old photograph of Kirkbean near the Solway Firth in, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Among its most famous sons was John Paul Jones, the founder of the United States Navy, who was born in Arbigland, Kirkbean on July 6th, 1747. The Kirbean cemetery is the burial place of Jean Thurot, born 1755, died 1833, son of the famous Francois Thurot, French Naval Commodore and Privateer. Kirkbean is also the birthplace of another great seafarer, John Campbell, who was born in 1720 and who went on to become a British naval officer, navigational expert and colonial governor of Newfoundland in Canada. The parish was also the departure point for thousands of Scots seeking a better life in the American and Australian colonies during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Convicts were also transported to Australia from here, making the parish a rich source of genealogy history with many hundreds of thousands of people worldwide having a connection to this beautiful part of Scotland.
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