Old photograph of Bloomhill House in Cardross which is located halfway between Dumbarton, and Helensburgh, Scotland. The house was built for Alexander Ferrier in 1838. Alexander Ferrier was born in 1789 in Cardross, the son of William Ferrier and Mary Fisher. In 1798 his father established a distillery at Cardross. Alexander went to Surinam, possibly via Demarara or Berbice. He was in business in Surinam with Thomas Butler Parry. He had many children in Surinam, eight born to Antoinette Johanna Kenswil, born 1789, died 1834, and one to Bernardine Elizabeth van Eyck. In 1830, in Scotland, he married Margaret Pearson and had four legitimate children. About 1835 he build Bloomhill House in Cardross, which was shortly afterwards described as perhaps the most beautiful villa on the Clyde. In 1842 he owned plantation Fredricksdorp on the Commewijnrivier in Surinam and his heirs were listed in a parliamentary investigation in 1859 into British citizens who were still engaging in slave ownership and trading. Alexander Ferrier's daughter, Margaret Gourlay Ferrier, born 1832, died 1900, married Joseph Noel Paton, born 1821, died 1901, a Scottish artist, sculptor and poet, who was appointed Queen's Limner for Scotland in 1865 and knighted in 1878. Alexander died in 1848.
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