Old travel Blog photograph of houses and a vintage car in Kettleholm Lockerbie, Scotland. Kettleholm village is a relatively new settlement. It was built in the course of the 19th century as a residential settlement on the estate of Castlemilk, which was built in 1866 for the politician Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet. Jardine was born at Edinburgh the son of David Jardine of Muir House, Lockerbie, Dumfries and his wife Rachel Johnstone. In 1865 he became head of Jardine, Matheson and Company, one of the largest Far East trading houses based in Hong Kong. He married Margaret Seton Hamilton, daughter of John Buchanan Hamilton, and sister and heiress of John Hamilton Buchanan, Chief of Clan Buchanan, in April 1867. His wife died a year later. He died on 17 February 1905 aged 79.
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