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Old Photograph Nethermuir House Scotland
Old photograph of Nethermuir House near Auchnagatt, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion in New Deer Parish, was owned by William Leslie who died in 1879. He was born at New Deer in 1802. His family were Independents, i.e. Congregationalists. He established himself at Park Cottage, Broadford, Aberdeen by at least 1828 when he designed a castellated lodge and gate for Hatton Castle. In 1851 he was living in Aberdeen was an architect and builder employing 150 men. The partnership of McDonald & Leslie was dissolved in 1853 when Leslie concentrated his business interests and practice in Aberdeen. Sometime thereafter he became a town councillor and was Lord Provost of Aberdeen, during his tenure of that office he became a landed gentleman buying the small estate of Nethermuir, remodelling the house as a neat Scots baronial villa. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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