Old Photograph Kinmundy House Scotland

Old photograph of Kinmundy House in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. South of the former weaver's hamlet of Durie in Buchan was the site of the now derelict Kinmundy House, once home to the Fergusons of Kinmundy. William Ferguson of Kinmundy, born 1823, died 1904, was Chairman of the Great North of Scotland Railway from 1879 to 1904. The original house was plundered and almost burnt by Gordon of Glenbucket's Highlanders in the Forty five, and only saved by the presence of mind of the Lady Kinmundy, whose husband was absent, and whose young son had been hurriedly despatched to a neighbouring farmhouse concealed in a clothes basket. She sent a message to the officer in command to the effect that it was strange conduct on the part of a gentleman so to treat a lady's house; that she had just been preparing some refreshment for his men when they set fire to the part of the house where it was to be served, and that if they wanted their dinner they had better put the fire out. The same good lady on another occasion, when a recruiting party were forcibly impressing the young men around, and some of them asked protection, is said to have put the house in a state of defence, and answered the summons to surrender the fugitives with the reply, " Her people had come there for safety, and safety they should have, and before they were got the house must be knocked down. "



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