Old Photograph Tollcross Park Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of children outside the entrance to Tollcross Park in Glasgow, Scotland. The park is located in the heart of Glasgow's East End some 3 miles east of the City Centre. Wellshot Road, Tollcross Road and Muiryfauld Drive surround the park. 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 Beechgrove Street Moffat Scotland

Old photograph of people walking along Beechgrove Street in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Moffat was a notable market in the wool trade, and this is commemorated with a statue of a ram by William Brodie in the town's marketplace. The ram was presented to the town by William Colvin, a local businessman, in 1875. From 1633 Moffat began to grow from a small village into a popular spa town. The infamous murderer and alleged grave robber William Hare may have stayed in the Black Bull Hotel during his escape to Ireland after turning King's evidence against William Burke. Robert Burns came for the waters and frequented the local bars. 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 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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