Old Photograph Terregles House Scotland

Old photograph of Terregles House, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house replaced an earlier tower house, which had served as the seat of the Lords Herries, and later the Earls of Nithsdale, until William Maxwell, the 5th Earl, forfeited his titles in 1716. In 1776, Winifred Maxwell, the granddaughter of the 5th Earl of Nithsdale, served as heir general to her father, inheriting the Terregles property. She and her husband, William Haggerston Constable of Everingham, commissioned the architect Sir Robert Smirke to design a new house. On completion, the old castle was demolished. The new house became home to the Constable-Maxwells and their seven children. In 1848 Winifred's grandson, William Constable-Maxwell, obtained an Act of Parliament restoring him as the descendent of William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, and ten years later the House of Lords declared him the 10th Lord Herries of Terregles. His descendants, the Constable-Maxwells, lived at Terregles until early in the twentieth century. 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 Kerfield House Scotland

Old photograph of Kerfield House by Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. William Mitchell Kerr, born 24th Dec 1789, died 13th May 1862, lived in Kerfield House with his wife around 1845, later moving to Terlings Park, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Sarah Newton Jarrett and David Kerr, nephew of John Jarrett, born 1746, died 1809, and Herbert Newton Jarrett III and brother-in-law of John Baillie. In 1806 he was placed by his other uncle Herbert Newton Jarrett III at Orange Valley to learn the planter's business. Acted for the Langlands family of Bogardo, owners of Roseberry coffee estate in St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Retired to Britain in 1836 when aged 46; married Eleanor Aynsworth of an Irish family in 1837. 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 Photographs Lochearnhead Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, people and cyclists in Lochearnhead, Scotland. Lochearnhead villages is located within the Breadalbane area of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Three clan family names associated with Lochearnhead are McLaren, Stewart and McGregor. The first of these is recorded in 1296, when Lauren of Ardveich had his name entered into the Ragman Roll. The McLaren burial ground at Leckine was last used in 1993. By the time the Stewarts came to Ardvorlich in 1582, the Reformed church, under the guidance of John Knox, had been adopted in Scotland for more than two decades. It was nearly two centuries later that the MacGregors acquired Edinchip, in 1778, building the current Edinchip House in 1830.





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Old Photograph Newtown St. Boswells Scotland

Old photograph of Newtown St. Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Situated on the Bowden Burn, Newtown St Boswells is situated between the larger settlements of St Boswells to the South East and Melrose to the North West. Historically, Newtown St Boswells was a centre for milling grain, with watermills on its streams and rivers. It became a regional centre of communication and an exporter of livestock after the opening of its railway station. This importance has declined since the closure of the station in 1969. 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 Photographs High Street Selkirk Scotland

Old photograph of people and buildings on the High Street in Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The Selkirk Common Riding is a celebration of the history and traditions of the Royal and Ancient Burgh. Held on the second Friday after the first Monday in June, the ceremony is one of the oldest in the area, with 300 to 400 riders, Selkirk boasts one of the largest cavalcades of horses and riders in Europe. Selkirk still owns common land to the north and south of the town, but only the northern boundary of Linglie is ridden on the day. Selkirk Common Riding commemorates how, after the disastrous Battle of Flodden in 1513, from the eighty men that left the town, only one, Fletcher - returned bearing a captured English flag. Legend has it that he cast the flag about his head to indicate that all the other men of Selkirk had been cut down. At the climax of the day the Royal Burgh Standard Bearer and Crafts and Associations Standard Bearers cast their colours in Selkirk's ancient Market Place. 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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