Old Photograph Kippenross House Scotland

Old photograph of Kippenross House by Dunblane, Scotland. The Ros family owned the land east of the Allan Water from the 12th century and built a tower house in 1448 on a bluff overlooking the river. In financial difficulty they sold it in 1633 to James Pearson who was Dean of Dunblane Cathedral. The lairds second son William Pearson apparently lost the freehold of Kippenross to John Stirling of Kippendavie " at dice or cards. " The later John Stirling of Kippendavie, born 1811, died 1882, inherited the estate at the age of five when his family owned significant property in town and to the east side of Dunblane, including farms on Sheriffmuir. John Stirling of Kippendavie and Kippenross. was born on 22 December 1742, the second son of Patrick Stirling 4th laird of Kippendavie, from a family of renowned Jacobite sympathisers, and his wife Margaret Douglas. In 1776, Stirling inherited the estate of Kippendavie, north east of Dunblane, following the death of his elder brother, Patrick Stirling. John then become the 6th Laird of Kippendavie. Around 1800, he also acquired the estate of Kippenross, south-east of Dunblane. On his brother's death, he also inherited the Keir plantation on Jamaica in the West Indies. In April 1781, he was married to Mary Graham, daughter of William Graham of Airth and they had at least 13 children. He died on 7 June 1816 at aged 73.


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