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Old Travel Blog Photograph Plean Bannockburn Scotland
Old photograph of houses, cottages and people in Plean near Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland. The Plean Estate was once owned by the Earl of Dunmore; he had sold it to the Robert Haldane who was already the owner of the Airthrey Estate in Stirling. It stayed in the Haldane family until it was sold in 1799 to Francis Simpson, a former captain with the East India Company. Simpson's wife Jean Sophia Cadell, daughter of William Cadell of Banton, was only twenty-one when she died in 1806, she left behind two children for Simpson to look after; one son, William, and a daughter, Frances. In 1819, Francis built Plean House and the other estate buildings. Campbell Forsyth, the Kilmarnock and Scotland international goalkeeper was born in Plean in 1939. Frankie Jones, the fly/bantamweight champion boxer of the 1950s and '60s was born in Plean in 1933.
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