The People and Places of the Stewartry
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Urr Parish and Dalbeattie: From the Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland, published Edinburgh in1856. - View
Judge Thomson - A Love Story.: This article appeared in the Edinburgh Magazine for 1843 (Volume 10) published by William Tait, Edinburgh and tells the story of two Kirkcudbright people and what became of them. - View
Mary's Dream: John Lowe, a native of Kells Parish, composed this poem. Both English and Scottish dialect forms are given. - View
Rev. William Gillespie, Minister of Kells 1806 - 1825: Biographical note taken from Chamber's Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, 1835. - View
John McClelland: Seventeenth Century Minister in Kirkcudbright Parish. - View
John Semple, Seventeenth Century Minister in Carsphairn: Seventeenth Century Minister in Carsphain Parish - View
Maclellan - Lord Kirkcudbright: Extracted from Burke's Peerages, dated 1866, traces the Maclellans of Kirkcudbright from around 1600 until the title fell dormant in 1832. - View
The Lineage of Gordon, Viscount Kenmure.: Extracted from Burke's Peerages, dated 1866, traces the Gordons of Kenmure from 1290 until the viscountship fell dormant in 1847. - View
The Churchyards of the Stewartry - Dalry: Published in the Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser on 10th January 1913, this article examines the people of the parish through it's monumental inscriptions - View
Earl of Selkirk, Peer of Scotland.: This family lineage is extracted from the book The Genealoy of the Existing British Peerage with Brief Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility, by Edmund Lodge Esq., published in London in 1832. - View
The Churchyards of the Stewartry - Dunrod and Galtway: - View
The Churchyards of the Stewartry - Borgue.: Published in the Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser on 6th June 1913, this article examines the people of the parish through it's monumental inscriptions. - View
Honouring the Memory of “McAdam, The Roadmaker.”: The Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser of 20th June 1913 carried a short article about McAdam on the occasion of the International Road Congress in London. - View
Gatehouse Town Clock: This article, describing the building of Gatehouse Town Clock in 1871, appeared in the Galloway News of 10th February 1922. - View
Unveiling of Town Council and Incorporated Trades Coats-of-Arms.: From 1922 this report describes the unveiling ceremony of two new coats-of-arms in the Parish Church and their meaning and origins. - View
The Nova Scotia ‘Gentlemen Adventurers’: Kirkcudbright's place in the creation of Nova Scotia and the sailing of the Planter from here in 1622, just two years after the Mayflower sailed. - View
Life in Old Castle Douglas: Published in 1920, some extracts from early Castle Douglas burgh records. - View
Castle Douglas Bye-laws of 1828.: From the bye-laws of the Council of Castle Douglas which came into force in 1828, a fairly good idea of burghal life can be gleaned, and some idea gained of the progress in this respect of nearly a century. - View
The Banks O' Fleet: Extracts from the Galloway News 1938. A look at the river Fleet in the vacinity of Gatehouse. - View
New Abbey, or Abbey of Sweetheart: From: The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, New Series, 1842, London. - View