Old Photograph Springkell House Scotland

Old photograph of Springkell House by Eaglesfield near Annan in south east Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Sir William Maxwell, 2nd Baronet of Springkell, built the house in 1734. Sir John Shaw Heron-Maxwell added the wings around 1818. The Maxwell, later Heron-Maxwell Baronetcy, of Springkell in the County of Dumfries, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 7 February 1683 for Patrick Maxwell. 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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Old Photograph Station Road Cardenden Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses on Station Road in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland. A former mining town located on the south bank of the River Ore in the parish of Auchterderran, Fife. Cardenden was named in 1848 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway for its new railway station. Areas of Cardenden include Auchterderran, Bowhill, Dundonald, the Jamphlars, New Carden and Woodend. It is reported that last duel on Scottish soil took place in a field at Cardenbarns to the south of Cardenden. On 2 August 1826, a Kirkcaldy merchant named David Landale fought a duel with George Morgan, a Kirkcaldy banker and retired Lieutenant from the 77th Regiment of Foot. Morgan was killed by wounds received from a pistol ball. Landale was tried and subsequently cleared of his murder at the Sheriff Court in Perth, Perthshire. 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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Old Photograph Huniting For Rabbits Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of hunting for rabbits in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Farm Workers Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of farm workers eating dinner outside a cottage in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. After the Union of 1707 there was a conscious attempt to improve agriculture among the Scottish gentry and nobility. Enclosure displaced the run rig system and free pasture. The resulting Lowland Clearances saw hundreds of thousands of cottars and tenant farmers from central and southern Scotland forcibly removed. The later Highland Clearances saw the displacement of much of the population of the Highlands as lands were enclosed for sheep farming. Those that remained many were now crofters, living on very small, rented farms with indefinite tenure, dependent on kelping, fishing, spinning of linen and military service. Scotland suffered its last major subsistence crisis when the potato blight reached the Highlands in 1846. 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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Old Photograph White Swan Hotel Methil Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the White Swan Hotel in Methil, Fife, Scotland. The hotel takes its name from the swan featured on the coat of arms of the Wemyss family, the local landowning family who historically dominated the area.

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