Old travel Blog photograph of Tonley House by Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. When Robert Byres was accidently drowned in Dublin Bay, his widow, Jean Sandilands from Cotton, at Aberdeen, bought the Tonley estate in 1716 and moved in with her young family, Patrick and James Byres. Patrick Byres was an ardent Jacobite and Major in the Tonley company of Stoneywood’s Aberdeen Regiment, raised by his brother in law Moir of Stoneywood in support of the 1745 Rising which ended at the Battle of Culloden. Patrick survived the slaughter on the moor of Culloden, evading death and capture he escaped back to Aberdeenshire where he hid in Cluny Castle until able to escape to France where he joined the regiment led by Cameron of Locheil. Patrick eventually judged it safe to return to the Vale of Alford. His family motto was, Marte suo tutus, Safe in his own prowess, and so it proved.
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