1 10 4 https://glenkensarchive.scot/glenkens_archive/files/original/15/558/GGLP-CYDI_GraveEncounters-v3.pdf dfc603f68960b79cb50635e87cf0f414 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters at Kells Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Kells Parish Church dates to 1822, but the gravestones that surround it go back to the early 1700s and feature some of the finest sculptures to be seen in Scottish kirkyards – it’s why they’ve been given Listed Building status. In these stones are carved the lives of people from the last 300 years of Galloway’s history, including merchants, covenanters, artists and soldiers among many others. Several of their stories have long been forgotten and with your help, we’re hoping that we can bring them back into public knowledge and create a record of their lives that will continue to be shared throughout future generations. Who will I be researching? We’ll assign you three gravestones to start off with (some of which might represent a family group), which will be yours exclusively to research. You can then choose between all the individuals named who you’d like to research – you don’t have to research them all! You might find that there is very little information for some gravestones while others turn up a lot more. We can also assign you additional stones if you feel you’ve done all that you can on the ones you have. We have a copy of ‘Kells Graveyard Memorial Inscriptions’ by the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society, which contains the inscriptions of 485 of the gravestones in the churchyard and we’ll use this to send you the full transcriptions. Each stone is individually numbered and there’s even an accompanying plan showing their location. We’ll try and give you a range from different periods – while the earlier headstones are always interesting, you might find information is more readily available for later individuals, so we’ll give you the option of looking into both and working out which resources work best. What to do with the results? Once you’ve collected all the information that you can on someone, then all you need to do is type up a summary and email it through to contact@rathmell-arch.co.uk with either ‘Grave Encounters’ or ‘Kells’ included in the subject title. You can type your summary directly into the email or attach it as a separate document written in Word, Google Docs, Libre Office or an equivalent. Title your text with the person’s name and the gravestone number from the initial memorial inscription so that we can tie their story to the correct stone. You can make your summary as simple or as detailed as you like. You can write it up as paragraphs or as a list of bullet points, add in images or keep it plain, and, if you want, you can also attach any documents that you find – how you lay it out is up to yourself! Feel free to either wait until the end of April to submit your findings, or to submit your findings for each individual as you go. did you know? Kells contains three or four ‘Adam and Eve’ gravestones, which depict the temptation scene from the Garden of Eden. While depictions of Adam and Eve appear more in Scotland than in the rest of the UK, there are still only around 45 examples in the country and they date back to the early 1700s. What will happen with my findings? We’re very keen to share any knowledge that we gather, so we’ll be sending the results through to local societies for their archives and to remain as a future resource. These groups will include LING (Local Initiatives in New Galloway), who manage many community projects including the New Galloway Town Hall, and the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society. If there are any other groups that you think would be interested, just let us know – the more the merrier. We’ll also add your findings to Can You Dig It’s online resources and share little snippets from your research on the Can You Dig It social media (@gglparchaeology on both Facebook and Twitter) throughout the year – let us know if you’d rather your name was left off of the final results. Any Questions? If you have any questions at all throughout the project (or even some tips that we could forward on to your fellow researchers) then just send us an email at contact@rathmell-arch.co.uk and pop ‘Kells’ or ‘Grave Encounters’ into the subject title. Top Tip It might be an idea to type up pieces of information as you uncover them - this will hopefully stop you from having a major typing up exercise at the end! Virtual Tea Breaks Throughout March and April we’ll be holding weekly ‘Virtual Tea Breaks’ on Thursdays alternating each week between morning and afternoon. There’s no pressure to attend but it’s a chance for you to drop in at any point to ask questions, share tips and findings, or just have a friendly chat. These will take place over Zoom and we’ll send you out the link and confirm the time by 9am every Thursday morning. The first (and most important) piece of advice given when you start in archaeology is to ‘always ask’ – we’re here to help and if we don’t have the answer right away, then we will endeavour to hunt it out for you! Our first Tea Break will be on Thursday 3rd March 10:00-11:00am BYOB (Bring your own biscuits!) Where do I start? The best way to start is by gleaning as much detail as you can from the initial gravestone inscription. This might not be much – their full name, the date that they died and their age (which will let you calculate the approximate year they were born). It might also have the names of their spouse or relatives, which can help you to be sure that you have the right person when looking at records such as birth registers and census returns. The inscription might also give you a location for where they had been living and some might even mention the person’s occupation. It’s worth keeping a note of everything you find out as you go along to help you narrow down any search results. Below you will find a list of the main resources available to help you get started. There’s no particular order and you’ll find out for yourself which resources you find easier to use, but if you’re unsure then the Findmypast option on the National Library of Scotland might be a good one to start with (see below for more details). did you know? You will find memorials to Covenanters across most of the kirkyards in Galloway, and Kells is no exception. Covenanters were effectively made religious outlaws by Charles II during the 17th century, with government troops stationed throughout the Glenkens for the purpose of their capture and, often, their execution. There is an abundance of information available about Covenanters on the internet and it’s worth doing a general search to see what you can find. Two resources that can be helpful for our area though are the Scottish Covenanter Memorials Association and Jardine’s Book of Martyrs. Top Tip Keep a note of any alternative spellings that you come across – you never know when someone might have accidentally added an error or typo into the record! Take care It’s possible that you might find some of the material you come across upsetting – in the past, they will have perceived events and occurrences differently from how we do today, and certain accounts or the language used might seem offensive or distressing by today’s standards. If you come across anything that you find upsetting or disturbing, then think carefully about whether you want to continue with it – it might be best to stop and move onto the next individual on your list. And if you write up the material in your findings, it’s best to keep as close to the original source as you can and write without bias – the past was a very different place! And enjoy it Undertaking research can be a very rewarding task, but it can also become frustrating if your search is coming up empty. Don’t be disheartened – if you find yourself hitting a wall, then maybe it’s time to have a break or move onto the next individual on your list. And you can always use us as a sounding board if you need to. By recording the person’s history, no matter how scant your findings, you will be ensuring that they remain in local memory for many years to come. August Open Day We’re hoping to have a small ‘open day’ at Kells Churchyard in August where we can share your findings and demonstrate how to create 3D models of some of the ‘Adam and Eve’ stones that are starting to lose their detail. If you’re happy to get involved, we’d love to have you along so that you can stand by the stones that you researched and share their stories to passers-by. We’ll let you know the details but there’s no pressure to attend. We can share your stories for you and keep you updated on how we get on. We’ll also send you links to any of the 3D models that we create. Top Tip If something pops out that you want to look further into, such as a particular conflict someone was involved in, their profession or even their house, feel free to add it into your findings – it all adds to revealing a part of their lived experience. Resources There are many resources available for researching the history of people. Here is a list of the main ones that we’ve come across. Most of them are free but, for the few that are charged, we can help you out so don’t worry. Feel free to share any tips or other resources that you come across and we’ll forward them on to your fellow researchers. National Library of Scotland Top Tip If your main address is in Scotland, you can apply to become a member of the National Library of Scotland (NLS). To get a physical card you’ll need to visit in person, but by just registering online, you will get free access to over 100 online resources. When looking at any results in the Findmypast section of the NLS website, check if there’s an option to ‘View original record’. If there is, then be sure to have a look as you might find that it holds more information beyond what appears in the typed entry. This includes thousands of books, reports, newspapers and journals. But probably most importantly for this project, it includes the Library’s account with ‘Findmypast’. Findmypast is a searchable online archive of over 2 billion records including birth, marriage and death records, parish records, censuses, migration records and military collections – a perfect place to start your research. Newspapers Old newspapers are a great resource, they can transport you back to the past in a way that few other archives can. You can often uncover information just by searching for a person’s name. You might find obituaries, marriage announcements, local events or maybe they’ve appeared in a newsworthy story. There are some newspapers available in the NLS online resources, including the Scotsman, but the best online resource for newspapers is the British Newspaper Archive (BNA). The BNA stems from a partnership between the British Library and Findmypast to digitise the Library’s vast newspaper archive dating back to the 17th century. You can search the BNA website for free and use the filters on the left to narrow your results by date and area. It’s also worth trying out different search terms or adding in extra words, such as a place name, to help. Once you have found a list of articles that might be relevant to your search, you can look to see if any of them are ‘Free to View’ (another filter option), although you will need to register. Many of the results will likely require a paid subscription to view them though, but this is where we can help – once you have narrowed down your search and picked out the articles that you think are relevant, then just email us the weblink from the top bar and we can download and email the articles straight through to you. We can do this for as many as you want so don’t worry – if you’re uncertain how relevant it is, just add it to the list to make sure! Local Libraries This project is primarily an online one but if you do have access to a local library and fancy a visit, then you will find that most have a section dedicated to researching family history. By visiting in person, you will be able to search either Scotlands People, Findmypast or an equivalent, such as Ancestry, for free – just check their website to find out where it’s available. Census Returns The census began in 1801 and was repeated every tenth year (with the exception of 1941) collecting information on households across the country. This can include a person’s age, birthplace, occupation and marital status at the time the census was taken. Very little information about individuals survives for 1801 to 1831, but you will be able to find census information from 1841 to 1911 online – a 100-year secrecy rule is in place, with the 1921 census return due out this year. Thanks to the Friends of the Archives of Dumfries and Galloway and several volunteers, you can access the returns of the 1851 census for Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire for free on the Dumfries and Galloway Council website. You are also able to access some of the census returns for free through FreeCen and, if your main address is in Scotland, by registering online with the National Library of Scotland. The census records are also available through a subscription to Scotland’s People. Top Tip The 1841 census enumerators were instructed to round down a person’s age to the nearest multiple of five – this is worth remembering when trying to calculate a person’s possible birth date. Scotlands People The official Scottish Government site for searching records and archives, ScotlandsPeople provides access to the statutory registers of births, marriages, deaths etc; census returns; church records; valuation rolls and legal records from Scotland’s law courts. You can search this website and look through the results as much as you like, but you will need credits to be able to click on a document and look at it in detail. It’s worth doing a search on Scotlands People to compare the results with what comes up on Findmypast in the NLS resources. If Scotlands People turns up records that you can’t find elsewhere then we can issue you with a voucher for credits to cover the cost of viewing them. We’ll only be able to issue so many within our budget so it’s best to make as much use of the free resources as you can. Scotlands People also have a range of guides which are freely accessible on their website and can help you to make sense of the different records available and what information they contain. Top Tip Keep a note of any alternative spellings that you come across – you never know when someone might have accidentally added an error or typo into the record! Scotlands Places ScotlandsPlaces is a free resource that lets you explore thousands of records simply by searching for a place name, clicking on a map or typing in your postcode. Search results bring together the national collections of Historic Environment Scotland, the National Records of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland so that you can easily find maps, photographs and written records about your chosen place. The website gives you access to tax rolls and the Ordnance Survey Name Books, as well as photographs, archaeological records, drawings and publications. ScotlandsPlaces is very useful for searching for a specific place name that a person might be associated with, such as a house, estate or farm. You can often connect people to places through tax records and in the Name Books – for the latter, be sure to check who’s listed under ‘Authorities for spelling’ as this will often include the tenant or landowner. And so many more... We’ve picked out the main resources that we think will be most helpful in your search but there are many others out there which may prove useful. For a full guide of what’s available, have a look at our guide for Web-Based Heritage Research. Top Tip It’s always worth doing a general internet search for the people or places you are researching, particularly for the older burials or individuals that might be well-known locally. There is a wealth of local online resources from community websites to personal blogs and you might well turn up some new information.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters at Kells Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GGLP_98 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource GCAT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Description An account of the resource The Grave Encounters project recruited volunteers to undertake research into the memorial inscriptions at Kells graveyard in New Galloway. GGLP graveyards https://glenkensarchive.scot/glenkens_archive/files/original/15/559/GGLP-CYDI-Grave-Encounters-at-Kells_Open-Day-Fact-Sheets.pdf 7b7c05a47bca6b8ee26a4195fcd9f589 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters at Kells – Open Day Fact Sheet Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document “I would rather be at a Scottish funeral than an English wedding” Up to the time of the Disruption in 1843, there were often noisy and unseemly scenes in graveyards. Food and drink were served over several hours before the funeral procession began; in the churchyard whiskey was dispensed, often lavishly. Not only the poor of the parish, but stranger poor and all manner of beggars, gathered at the funeral, as they customarily received dole (gift of coins). The cost of funerals varied tremendously from person to person, from a few pounds paid by the Kirk Sessions in the case of paupers to hundreds of pounds in the case of Dukes and Earls. When Sir Robert Grierson of Lag died in 1733, his funeral costs included £240 Scots for food and drink. Below is a list of some of the items consumed, and their cost: COFFIN ROADS The distance from some parts of a parish to the kirkyard could be many miles for some funeral parties. The old trackways which were used to carry coffins to the kirkyards still exist in some places, and many are still known as ‘coffin’ or ‘kirk’ roads. Kirk Road in Laurieston was once used as the ‘coffin road’ to Balmaghie Church. Alongside some of these ways are cairns every so often, originally marking the places where a rest was taken and the coffin-bearers were changed. There are tales of coffins having to be abandoned along some ways as a result of treacherous weather. One such incident took place in Galloway, when a coffin was being taken out from the shepherd’s cottage of Backhill of Bush, remotely located in the Dungeon of Buchan. The funeral party carried it as far as the hill of Millfire, at over 2,000 feet, where it had to be left until the snows subsided. Several days later the bearers returned to the hilltop and continued to the kirkyard of Kells. Over time, numerous superstitions appeared around the coffin roads: the coffin must not touch the ground or the deceased’s spirit would return to haunt the living; the corpse’s feet must face away from their house or they could return to haunt their former home; the coffin bearers must not step off the path onto neighbouring farmland or the crops would be blighted; spirits liked to travel in straight lines, so the paths often meandered; spirits could not cross running water, so the paths crossed burns; you could lose a following spirit at a crossroad, so the route would have a crossroad! Hearses were at first used only by the upper classes but gradually became more common in lower social circles. There are a few kirkyards in which can be seen hearsehouses, buildings in which the horsedrawn hearse was kept between funerals, as at Crossmichael which is today used to house the Crossmichael Heritage Centre. THE LYKEWAKE Following a death, a series of jobs were undertaken by the immediate family or close friends to prepare the corpse for the grave and arrange the burial ceremony. One of the most important was the ‘lykewake’, the watching of an unburied corpse, lyke being a harder form of lich, corpse. Lykewakes originated in pre-Reformation days, the original purpose being to ward off evil spirits who were thought to try to capture the soul of the corpse for the devil. It also had a more practical purpose in preventing vermin nibbling at the corpse, for in many areas, sanitation was still poor, and rats and mice were rife. The corpse was generally kept in one of the bedrooms of the house, usually the best room, and the family would take turns at sitting with the body. Wakes lasted anything from a couple of days to over a week, depending on the deceased's social standing. When the Laird of the Mackintosh clan died in 1731 at Dalcross Castle in the Highlands, he lay for exactly two months and two days, during which time open house was kept for all comers. The numbers of the mourners were 4,000 and the line extended from Dalcross Castle the four miles to Petty Church. With all these visitors to the house, hospitality had to be shown resulting in a supply of alcohol, tobacco, cheese and bread being brought into the home. The alcohol supplied freely by the relatives of the deceased was often misused, and it was not uncommon for people unconnected in anyway whatsoever to turn up at a lykewake to drink a toast to the deceased. Dogs and cats were kept well away from the corpse, cats being trapped beneath a washtub, for, should they cross over the deceased, the Devil could gain power over the soul. All clocks in the house were stopped at the time of death, and any mirrors were either covered over or turned to the wall. Visitors who came to pay their respects had to touch the face of the dead body; failing to do so would result in the visitors suffering from nightmares for days after. RESURRECTIONISTS One of the stranger occurrences in the history of our graveyards must be the phenomenon of body snatching - the good old resurrectionists of the 18th and 19th centuries. With an increase in medical schools and hospitals during the 18 th century, there came a demand for cadavers for study and dissection. After the Murder Act of 1752, all executed murderers were allowed to be dissected for medical research but need soon outweighed supply and a thriving black market arose where you could make up to £10 per corpse. The idea of dissection was so horrifying (it only became legal in the 16th century) that a fear of resurrectionists soon gripped the nation. Volunteers stepped up to guard the cemeteries through the night, watching over their recently interred relatives and waiting to pounce on anyone who dared to appear. This was an arduous task, and the nights could be very cold, so watch houses were constructed at several cemeteries for volunteers to take shelter in. These would be small structures, and in many instances, they were furnished with fireplaces, as well as windows to look out over the cemetery. An easier way to protect the bodies from resurrectionists was mortsafes. These started off as simply large stones placed over the coffins during burial, too heavy to lift, but they soon developed into iron (resurrectionists had worked out how to get around the stones!). Some were complete covers that would fit over the coffin while others look more like cages. In many instances a town would have a supply of mortsafes that would be left over the coffin until long enough had passed, before lifting it out again to reuse for the next burial. For some though, such was the fear of the resurrectionists, that they would commission the building of their own mortsafe to be left on indefinitely. Resurrectionists were active across Scotland, and newspaper reports from 1824 mention rumours that 16 graves were found empty in Hoddom, with similar occurrences reported at ‘Drysdale, Annan, and Middlebie’ to a lesser extent. As late as 1852, three individuals faced trial in Dumfries for attempting to dig up a grave in Annan. The most famous resurrectionists in Scotland must be Burke and Hare, who dispensed with the heavy labour of grave digging and cut right to the chase, murdering 16 people in one year to sell to the medical profession. But they weren't the only ones who chose to skip a step and there were once rumours that the body of the unfortunate Myles Crow had been taken by resurrectionists from St Cuthbert’s graveyard in Kirkcudbright. These rumours suddenly took on a more sinister tone when John Stewart was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829. Guilty of murdering people to exhume their body for sale to the dissection table, Stewart confessed last minute that one of his victims was an old assistant boatman at Kirkcudbright… In the end, the Anatomy Act of 1832 addressed the need of supplying bodies and the body-snatching trade was no longer profitable. But traces of this strange time when resurrectionists would enter cemeteries at night to steal away the bodies of the recently deceased are still dotted around our cemeteries today. PERCY PHILIP Inscription 23 Percy James Philip was born at the Kells manse in 1886 and went on to become a war correspondent throughout both World Wars, living in Paris before moving to Ottawa in 1940. Percy was later awarded a Legion d’Honneur (the highest French order of merit) and an OBE “for services to the cause of the allies in WW2”. One of Percy’s most memorable experiences occurred when he was still in France in 1940, which he relayed in a letter to his father, the Rev. Pirie Philip. Here is an account from The Scotsman: Mr Philip says that his experience on leaving Cambrai for Paris was that the life of every American and British journalist was in danger, not from the Germans, but from the French crowds. The latter were possessed with the idea that everyone was a spy or parachutist. Mr Philip describes how he eventually boarded a train filled with refugees and soldiers. His uniform excited comment and question, and whenever the train stopped, he, with others, got down to sit on the grass. Two men dressed in the uniform of Customs officers and armed with revolvers asked him who he was and demanded to see his papers. They were very aggressive, and informed Mr Philip that he was under arrest. A crowd soon gathered, and the general opinion was that he should be shot at once as a German parachutist. Twice the Customs officers went through his papers and threatened to shoot him. He was almost completely undressed, even to taking off his boots for examination. When a captain came up he was even more hysterical than the others, and immediately pulled out his revolver. Mr Philip thought that a French soldier had telephoned to the police, and after a Customs officer had thrown his boots on the line and told him to prepare for execution, he addressed the people and told them that everyone had a right to be tried. To gain time he asked to be allowed to put on his boots, saying that a Scot liked to die in his boots. The two minutes he thus gained saved his life, for two policemen arrived, and he was marched off amid the jeers of the crowd. At Liancourt his papers were properly examined, and he was allowed to resume his journey to Paris. ANDREW EWART Inscription 264 Andrew was ordained in 1691 and took up the appointment as Minister of Kells parish in the same year, which he continued for the next 48 years. He was the first minister of Kells after the recognition of the Presbyterian religion in 1690 by William III. One of Andrew’s sons, John, was to become godfather to the future prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone. And one of his great grandsons, William Ewart, introduced a bill which led to the Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1853 allowing free libraries to be funded from local taxes. When Andrew Carnegie offered £10,000 for the Dumfries library building in 1898, he suggested that the library be named after this very William Ewart. However, one of the most remarkable events that involved Andrew Ewart occurred in the year 1695, an event which became known as “the most remarkable in the annals of Demonology”. Scan the QR code to listen to the story of the Rerrick poltergeist: ARCHIBALD BASIL HENRY MAXWELL Inscription 43 Archibald was educated at Rugby and then became a student at the Institute of Civil Engineers London. There he played Rugby Football for the London Irish. He was induced to help the Cheltonians in their matches against Bristol and Lennox and he was largely instrumental in the town’s victory over the Londoners. He was only 22 years of age when he tragically died in the Scotch Express Disaster, seen as “one of the biggest railway disasters in the Edwardian period”. The disaster was recounted in The Northern Echo for the centenary, 9th December 2010 – ‘The Wrecking Of The Christmas Eve Express’ Shortly before 5am on Christmas Eve, 1910, the London to Glasgow train sped double-headed past Hawes Junction, where the Wensleydale branch of the North Eastern Railway met the Settle and Carlisle line, and the Midland. The Helm wind whipped across the high fell, the rain lashed against the windows of the box where signalman Albert Sutton was nearing the end of a ten-hour night shift made busier yet by the extra trains ferrying folk felicitously towards their families. Simpson, the relief man, was already in the box when Sutton realised that he had made a terrible mistake. Two light engines, coupled together and heading north towards Carlisle, had been allowed onto the main line just ahead of the fast train and on the same section of track. Twelve people, died in the collision and inferno that followed. Sutton’s instruction to Simpson is still chillingly recalled: “Go tell Bunce (the station master) that I am afraid I have wrecked the Scotch Express.” A song about the event was also written to mark the centenary: JOHN MURRAY Inscription 314 John Murray died on 3 January 1777, aged 61 years. For 46 years he had been employed by Lord Gordon at Kenmure Castle as factor/gamekeeper. There is an affectionate poem on the reverse of the tombstone: Ah John what changes since I saw thee last. Thy fishing and thy shooting days are past. Bagpipes and Hautboys thou canst sound no more. Thy nods, grimaces, winks and pranks are o'er. Thy harmless, queerish, incoherent talk, Thy wild vivacity and trudging walk, Will soon be quite forgot. Thy joys on earth A snuff, a glass, riddles and noise of mirth Are vanished, all. Yet blest I hope thou art For in thy station, weel thou play'dst thy part. A competition was held by the Honourable John Gordon, Murray's employer, to compose this epitaph poem, which was won by the local minister. There is one magnificent story featuring Murray that is mentioned in several places – his capture in 1774 at Loch Ken, after a long and fierce struggle, of a monster pike fish, at 72lbs (again, this varies between accounts) and some 7ft long, the largest pike on record ever captured. According to Monuments and Monumental inscriptions in Scotland, Vol 3, " ...elated by his achievement, John walked into the dining-room holding the pike's head over his shoulder, while the tail dragged on the floor. Stepping up to his master, he threw down the fish before him, saying, 'You may catch the next yoursel', my lord.' No such pike has before or since been caught in any part of Britain."  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters at Kells – Open Day Fact Sheet Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GGLP_99 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource GCAT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Description An account of the resource The Grave Encounters project recruited volunteers to undertake research into the memorial inscriptions at Kells graveyard in New Galloway. GGLP graveyards https://glenkensarchive.scot/glenkens_archive/files/original/15/560/GGLP-CYDI-GraveEncountersAtKells_ActivitySheet.pdf d5eabd4a74029d8d08ddb66ccda64971 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters at Kells – Activity Sheet Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document ACTIVITY SHEET Grave Encounters at Kells I NST R UC T IO N S 1 Can you find the carvings on the gravestones (in no particular order), based on the simple illustrations? Please write the person’s name beside it. 2 Kells Kirkyard is classed as a Category B Listed Building - this means that it has been recognised as having ‘special’ architectural or historic interest. These carvings are 3 4 hundreds of years old and many still have the year visible. Can you spot which one is the oldest? Some of the carvings represent what the people did for a living, can you guess what the person at Carving 6 did? Carving 7 is called a ‘winged soul’. These are fairly common, see if you can keep count of how many there are as you go round the gravestones. 5 6 7 8 9 10 B O N U S Q U ES TI O N Next to one of the gravestones sits a rare example of a wooden WWII battlefield cross that’s been brought over from France. Can you find it and write down the name that appears on it?  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters at Kells – Activity Sheet Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GGLP_100 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource GCAT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Description An account of the resource The Grave Encounters project recruited volunteers to undertake research into the memorial inscriptions at Kells graveyard in New Galloway. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Grave Encounters: A 2022 volunteer research project into the people memorialised at Kells, New Galloway With contributions from: Laura Anderson, Jackie Carson, Sharon Course, Tamara Fulcher, A. B. Hall, Keith Hamblin, Murray Johnston, Michelle MacIver, Thais Poyo-Gonzalez, Jennifer Roberts, Pat Swiatek, Sue Taylor, Claire Williamson and Sandra Williamson Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 3 Inscription 12 – Douglas & McMillan ..................................................................................... 5 Inscription 16 – Bateson ........................................................................................................ 6 Inscription 23 – Philip .......................................................................................................... 16 Inscription 43 – Maxwell ...................................................................................................... 21 Inscription 45 – Kennedy, Hope & Hyslop ............................................................................ 24 Inscription 46 – Barbour & Hope.......................................................................................... 26 Inscription 58 – McCubbing, McQueen & McNairn .............................................................. 27 Inscription 95 – Williamson.................................................................................................. 29 Inscription 104 – McCheyne & Mulholland .......................................................................... 30 Inscription 115 – Brown & Murray ....................................................................................... 32 Inscription 136 – Hewitson .................................................................................................. 34 Inscription 144 – Muir.......................................................................................................... 36 Inscription 149 – Lee ............................................................................................................ 37 Inscription 154 – Hobbs & Maitland..................................................................................... 40 Inscription 162 – McLachlan & Greggan............................................................................... 43 Inscription 176 – Murray...................................................................................................... 45 Inscription 184 – Reilly ......................................................................................................... 50 Inscription 201 – Herese & Corson ....................................................................................... 51 Inscriptions 209 & 210 – Kennedy........................................................................................ 52 Inscription 257 – Jardine ...................................................................................................... 54 Inscription 264 – Ewart ........................................................................................................ 55 Inscription 271 – McKay....................................................................................................... 57 Inscription 288 – McCandlish ............................................................................................... 59 Inscription 292 – Kennedy ................................................................................................... 61 Inscription 293 – Gordon ..................................................................................................... 62 Inscription 308 – Millman .................................................................................................... 65 Inscription 308 – The Sinking of the Steamer Victoria .......................................................... 67 Inscription 314 – Murray...................................................................................................... 70 Inscription 354 – Maitland Gordon ...................................................................................... 74 Inscription 355 – Maitland ................................................................................................... 75 1 Inscription 361 – Nodwell .................................................................................................... 76 Inscription 410 – Robertson ................................................................................................. 78 Inscription 436 – Kennedy ................................................................................................... 81 Inscription 437 – Kennedy ................................................................................................... 82 Inscription 438 – St Clair ...................................................................................................... 82 Inscription 464 – Stokes ....................................................................................................... 84 Inscription 482 – McLeod..................................................................................................... 86 Inscription 484 – Maitland ................................................................................................... 89 Inscriptions x 18 – Johnston / Johnstone ............................................................................. 92 Index .................................................................................................................................... 99 2 Introduction “In Scotland there is a little-acknowledged and largely unrecorded historical treasure, accessible to, and belonging to, each Scottish community.” Betty Willsher in Understanding Scottish Graveyards (1985) The Grave Encounters project recruited volunteers to undertake research into the memorial inscriptions at Kells graveyard in New Galloway1. These inscriptions are often all that publicly remains of the individuals named within, but they contain glimpses, not just into their lives, but also into past events, locations and connections which make up an area’s heritage. The decision to focus on Kells stemmed from its carvings. Nic Coombey, from the Solway Firth Partnership, introduced us to the presence of its ‘Adam and Eve’ carvings, but a wander through the stones soon revealed several intricate designs dating back some 300 years. Choosing Kells allowed the project to be combined with creating a record of some of these carvings. But, in truth, every graveyard across Galloway, and indeed Scotland, will contain similar insights into their local area’s collective history. With a total of 485 inscriptions to choose from, each volunteer was given their own specific set of gravestones to research. To achieve this, the project used ‘Kells Memorial Inscriptions’: a complete transcription of the gravestones published by the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society in 2015. The numbering of the inscriptions within this report matches those given in the 2015 publication, with their locations shown in the figure on page 4. Each volunteer was initially assigned three gravestone inscriptions. There was no pressure to research all three (and equally volunteers could ask for more) but having a choice allowed volunteers to move between options if they started to struggle in their research on any given one. Each group of inscriptions tried to encompass a chronological spread and included one each from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries where possible. Beyond this, preference was given to inscriptions that contained additional information, such as the person’s trade or reference to a military record, which might help with research. As well as their assigned inscriptions, each researcher was also given a guidance note outlining the main resources available online. People could visit their local library or archive centre but the choice of online resources kept the project open to anyone who might face constraints in attending such places in person. Volunteers were encouraged to email with any questions and a weekly virtual ‘tea break’ was also held using a video conferencing application, optional for anyone who might prefer it as a means of communication. By the end of the project, 14 volunteers submitted their findings as summary reports, which covered 57 of the inscriptions found at Kells. The volunteers included people from Galloway, Ayrshire, Glasgow, Bristol, Canada and New Zealand. Their results revealed stories of local ministers; teachers; religious conflict; war casualties; emigrations to Canada, America and New Zealand; and several local individuals who lived and worked in the surrounding area over the last 300 years to make it what it is today. All this history was found in just a small fraction of the inscriptions at Kells, itself only one of over 100 graveyards within Galloway alone. These inscriptions may exist as a record of death but there is still life to be found in them. Their study helps us to rediscover the people in our history, the individuals and their stories that are so often overlooked but remain integral to our understanding of heritage. Claire Williamson The Grave Encounters project was undertaken in March and April 2022 as part of ‘Can You Dig It’, the community archaeology project of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership. Galloway Glens was a five-year initiative funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and ‘Can You Dig It’ was match funded by Historic Environment Scotland and delivered by Rathmell Archaeology. 1 3 Plan of memorial locations reproduced from ‘Kells Graveyard Memorial Inscriptions’ published in 2015 by the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society 4 Inscription 12 – Douglas & McMillan by Pat Swiatek John Douglas was born in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire in 1783 to Andrew Douglas and Sara Thomson. He had brothers James 8.4.1800 and William 11.4.1793, sisters Jane 5.6.1795, Janet 23.11.1797 and Elizabeth 1.5.1781. They are all recorded as births in Rerrick. He married Janet McMillan who was born in Carsphairn 23.6.1773. There is no record of John Douglas’s birth in the OPRs only his siblings. He was recorded in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 census as a joiner employing one apprentice and lived in Kells. Both John Douglas and Janet McMillan are noted as having died in New Galloway. She was 88 years old on 18.3.1861 and he was 87 years old in 8.2.1871. They are both recorded as having died of old age. Janet McMillan’s parents were Andrew McMillan and Jean Hairstones or Hastings and they came from Carsphairn. Andrew McMillan was a shepherd. She had a sister called Barbara 14.7.1771 John and Janet’s children were John 1814-1814, Mary 1812-1888, Andrew 1807-1863 and William 18171885. I also found a record of a Mathew but nothing further than a name and a date of 23.3.1817. His son Andrew emigrated to the USA in 2.7.1836 and moved to Louisiana and was an overseer on a plantation there, married a Bridget Foley (Irish) and had at least three children. His son William emigrated to the USA in 1841 and married Permelia Amelia Strawn in Missouri and then moved to Pike, Illinois and went onto have 11 children! He was a joiner to trade. 5 Inscription 16 – Bateson by Sue Taylor 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Inscription 23 – Philip by Murray Johnston 16 17 18 19 20 Inscription 43 – Maxwell by Sandra Williamson Archibald Basil Henry MAXWELL Only child of Col. Archibald BOYD MAXWELL, late of the Manchester Reg’t and Helen Francis his wife, Born 4th May 1888, died 24th Dec’r 1910. Thy will be done. Taken from the Gloucestershire Echo, 27th December 1910: “Archibald was educated at Rugby and then became a student at the Institute of Civil Engineers London. There he played Rugby Football for the London Irish. Last Easter while spending his holidays in Cheltenham with his grandmother and Aunt he was induced by one of their male servants connected with the Cheltenham Club to help the Cheltonians in their matches against Bristol and Lennox and he was largely instrumental in the town’s victory over the Londoners. He was only 22 years of age when he tragically died.” Hawes Junction, 24th December 1910 - In the early hours of that morning the London to Glasgow sleeping car express ran into the back of two light-engines. The resulting collision was not so severe. However, two of the coaches caught fire due to the escape of compressed oil gas, used for lighting. The death toll was 12. Gravestone of Archibald Basil Henry Maxwell Scotch Express Disaster (The Northern Echo): “He left London on Friday night to spend four days Christmas holiday with his father Col. Archibald Boyd Maxwell of Ken Bridge, New Galloway and whose remains were so charred that identification was impossible save by a trousers button bearing the name of the deceased tailor. He was the only son of Col. Maxwell who led the 2nd Manchester Regiment in the Boer War and was mentioned in despatches for his excellent services.” The Northern Echo on the centenary, 9th December 2010 - The Wrecking Of The Christmas Eve Express: “Twas midnight at St. Pancras As the Scotchman was due away, With a happy load of passengers Bound north for Christmas Day” Shortly before 5am on Christmas Eve, 1910, the London to Glasgow train sped double-headed past Hawes Junction, where the Wensleydale branch of the North Eastern Railway met the Settle and Carlisle line, and the Midland. The Helm wind whipped across the high fell, the rain lashed against the windows of the box where signalman Albert Sutton was nearing the end of a ten-hour night shift made busier yet by the extra trains ferrying folk felicitously towards their families. “Go tell Bunce that I am afraid I have wrecked the Scotch Express.” Simpson, the relief man, was already in the box when Sutton realised that he had made a terrible mistake. Two light engines, coupled together and heading north towards Carlisle, had been allowed onto the main line just ahead of the fast train and on the same section of track. 21 Twelve people, including a little girl died in the collision and inferno that followed. Sutton’s instruction to Simpson is still chillingly recalled: “Go tell Bunce (the station master) that I am afraid I have wrecked the Scotch Express.” Driffield Times Sat. 14th January 1911 “The inquest in the Scotch Express Disaster concluded on Thursday. The jury found a verdict of “accidental death” and called attention to the violation of the rule requiring drivers to inform signalmen when engines are standing on the line,and suggested that the Board of Trade should make strict investigation into the peculiar working at Haws Junction and that light engines should start from the signal box. The evidence on Thursday was thought a fireman had gone to the signal box and an excursion train was mistaken for the Scotch Express but one driver said he did not trouble to look at his book although he was not certain when the Express was due.” The Westmorland Gazette, 4th December 2013: “The legacy of one of the worst train disasters in Britain has been recognised as part of a drive to safeguard the nation’s railway heritage...the government-backed Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that the station’s signal box, which was renamed Garsdale in 1932, has been awarded Grade II listed status...“Hawes Junction played a major role in one of the biggest railway disasters in the Edwardian period and had major ramifications across the country,” said John Minnis, senior architectural investigator for English Heritage. As a result of the disaster, the rail operator changed signalling practices across its 900 services to prevent similar accidents occurring.” Description of the event can also be found in detail on Wikipedia: Hawes Junction rail crash. Dave Goulder’s song about the famous Christmas Eve train crash can also be found on YouTube: 1910 Christmas Eve at Hawes Junction. Photographs of the Hawes Junction accident (taken from Railways Archive): Image source: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/mastereventimages/event78.jpg 22 Image source: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/mastereventimages/event78_1.jpg 23 Inscription 45 – Kennedy, Hope & Hyslop by Jennifer Roberts Alexander Kennedy, who was born around 1768, was the second son of Robert Kennedy of Knockknalling. His memorial mentions that he was formally of Jamaica. An Alexander Kennedy worked as an overseer at the Golden Valley Plantation in Jamaica in the years around 1799-1807. Sugar cane was grown on the Plantation, some of which was made into rum. Alexander was overseer to many scores of enslaved people working on the Plantation. At some point on returning to Scotland Alexander took out the tenancy of Kenbank at St. John’s Clauchan [sic], Dalry, where he died on the 20th January 1839 at the age of seventy-one. Isabella Hope, his wife, was probably born on the 14th February 1778 at Wamphray, Dumfriesshire. Her parents were James Hope and Jean Proudfoot. By 1841 Isabella, a widow of three years, was still living at Kenbank. In the census she is described as a farmer, and as women at that time are usually described as farmer’s wife or daughter it may mean she was actually involved in running the farm. At the time of the census, her niece Isabella Hyslop and Robert Hyslop, a minister, were staying with her. Jennet Landsburgh Inscription 45 was also living in the house, as were two female servants. Isabella Kennedy died before the next census on the 19th March 1851. She died intestate with a Scottish estate valued at £170.1s.10d. She had stock in the Manchester and Salford Banking Company valued at £405. The Rev. Charles Hope as her nearest relative was her executor. She must have been a generous woman helping out her male relatives with handouts, as at the time of her death the Rev. Robert Hyslop of Kirkholm owed her £18, James Hyslop of Glenlees £27.10s, and James Hyslop Jnr. £16.18s. Isabella Hyslop, her niece, was born on the 9th October 1817 at Leaths, Buittle. Her parents were Margaret Hope and James Hyslop. Isabella was baptised ten days later. As has been seen in the 1841 census, Isabella, aged twenty, was staying with her aunt at Kenbank. At the time of the next census Isabella was at Glenlee Mains with her family. Her father, a widower of seventy-nine was a farmer of 1242 acres, employing five labourers. His son James was employed to run the farm. Living on the farm with James was his son James and his grand-son James, his grand-daughter Margaret, Isabella and her sisters Mary and Clementine, as well as three agricultural labourers, a house servant, nurse and dairymaid. At the time of the 1861 census, Isabella was living in the High Street of New Galloway with her ten-year-old nephew James. She is described as an annuitant. By the time of the next census in 1871 her address is more specific. She is recorded as living at 27 High Street, and now at fifty-three she is described as being a farmer’s daughter. Staying with her were her widowed sister Agnes Sinclair and her two daughters Margaret and Agnes. In 1881, although still living in the High Street of New Galloway, Isabella is recorded as living with her widowed sister Agnes Sinclair. Margaret Sinclair is living at home and working as a private teacher. The women have Christina Barclay a salaried companion, living with them. Although in this census Agnes and Isabella are recorded as annuitants, another unmarried young woman, Grace Brown, living with them, is described as a farmer’s daughter. Isabella Hyslop died at six thirty in the morning of 17th November 1889 of fatty degeneration of her kidney and of dropsy. She had been ill for two months before this. She died at Ashburn Cottage, New Galloway. 24 When Isabella died the value of her estate was £1599.10s.10d. Her money was left to her widowed sisters: Mary McMillan of Gordon Terrace, New Galloway and Agnes Sinclair of Ashburn Cottage, New Galloway. References Census: 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 Details of Estate | Legacies of British Slavery (ucl.ac.uk) [accessed April 2022] 1889 HYSLOP, ISABELLA (Statutory registers Deaths 868/ 15) 1851 Kennedy, Isabella, Mrs (Wills and testaments Reference SC16/41/18, Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court) Image 237 Last image 239 Scotland National probate Index 1890, p378 Scotland Parish Births and Baptisims 1564-1929 OPR 859/1 Scotland Parish Deaths and Burials, Dalry OPR 865/3 Statutory Register of Deaths OPR 868/15 25 Inscription 46 – Barbour & Hope by Jennifer Roberts James Barbour was born in the Parish of Kells around 1788. His father John was a shoemaker and his mother was Margaret Murray. He married Isabella Hope but was a widower by the time of the 1841 census. In 1841 he is recorded as a fifty-year-old widower farming at Ringour. He had his children living with him: Charles, Susanna, Jane, Margaret, Isabella and James. Charles the eldest was twenty-two, James the youngest was seven. The 1851 census is more detailed in its records. James is now recorded as being sixty-three. Ringour Farm is described as having fifty acres of arable land and one hundred acres of heath. James employed two labourers. Most of James’s children were still living at home: Charles, Susannah, Margaret, Isabella and James Jnr. By the time of the next census, James at seventy-three had retired and moved to the Boat of Rhone. Three of his daughters still lived at home: Susanna, Jane and Margaret. His youngest son James is described as a ploughman. James Barbour died on the 27th April 1861 at one thirty in the afternoon at the age of seventy-three, whilst living at the Boat of Rhone. He died of asthenic pneumonia which he had suffered from for five weeks previously. His death was certified by Dr McKinley Millman. There is a family tradition that her father, possibly called John Hope, had gone to India to seek his fortune and whilst there had married an Indian princess. Isabella Hope was born around 1800. There is a family tradition that her father, possibly called John Hope, had gone to India to seek his fortune and whilst there had married an Indian princess. Isabella’s parents had both been killed around 1800, leaving her as a young baby in charge of a person who brought her back to Scotland to be brought up by the Hopes and then absconded with her fortune. Isabella, whatever her origins, married James Barbour and lived with him at Ringour. During her short life she gave him at least six children. Isabella died on the 4 th of April 1834 at the age of thirty-four, possibly during or soon after the birth of her son James. Margaret Barbour, the third daughter of James and Isabella, was born in the Parish of Kells in 1826. In 1863 at the age of thirty-seven, or thirty-four as mentioned on her marriage certificate, she married Birket Nicholson from Hawkshead at Boat of Rhone on the 1st June. Birket, twenty-four at the time of his marriage, was at least ten years younger than Margaret. Margaret died probably in giving birth to her daughter Isabella less than two years later. She died on the 16th April 1865, according to her memorial at the age of thirty-six. She was buried on the 19th April at Crosthwaite in Cumberland. References Census: 1841, 1851, 1861 England Select Deaths and Burials FHL Film NO. 1472290, item 9 page 123 [accessed May 2022] 1861 BARBOUR, JAMES (Statutory registers Deaths 868/ 7) [accessed May 2022] 1863 BARBOUR, MARGARET (Statutory registers Marriages 868/ 1) [accessed May 2022] Not another Indian Princess by Edgar F Morris 26 Inscription 58 – McCubbing, McQueen & McNairn by Jennifer Roberts Margaret McQueen, Alexander’s first wife was born in 1865 in Balmaclellan, the daughter of Jane Connan and James McQueen, a blacksmith. On the 1871 census Margaret, aged six was going to school with her siblings, John aged eleven and Jess aged nine. On the 1881 census Margaret, now aged fifteen, was working as a general servant for William and Jessie Hunter. They lived at Dundeugh, Carsphairn. William Hunter was a shepherd. By 1891 Margaret was living at home with her widowed father and younger brother Thomas. She was a general (domestic) servant. They lived in the High Street of New Galloway. Alexander McCubbing was born on the 23rd February 1866 in New Galloway. Alexander was illegitimate, his birth is registered under his mother’s name McNairn. His mother Sarah was working as a domestic servant at the time of his birth. Sarah was compeared2 at the Kirk Session for the sin of uncleanness with Alex McCubbin and absolved. On Alexander’s marriage certificate his father is described as a farmer. It may be that Sarah called her son after his father. On Alexander's death certificate his father is mentioned as also being called Alexander McCubbing. Sarah was compeared at the Kirk Session for the sin of uncleanness with Alex McCubbin and absolved. Inscription 58 By the 1871 census Alexander had the surname McCubbin (later changing it to McCubbing). He lived in Durness Close with his with his grandmother Mary McNairn and mother Sarah. His grandmother was described as an annuitant in the 1871 census, but after being left a widow by the death of her much older husband, is described on the 1851 census as a pauper. At the time of the 1871 census, Alexander’s grandmother was seventy and his mother was thirty. By the time of the 1881 census, Alexander was working as a servant for John McTurk at Barsheoch Mains. Ten years later, on the 1891 census, Alexander is described as a mason. He was boarding in the High Street with Marion Kidd, a sick nurse, and Isabella, her unmarried daughter who worked as a letter carrier. When Alexander McCubbing was twenty-seven he married Margaret McQueen, aged twenty-eight, on the 1st December 1893 at the Manse of Kells. Both resided in New Galloway. On his marriage certificate Alexander is described as a journeyman mason. This was Alexander’s first marriage. Alexander and Margaret’s first child Jane, or Jeanie as she was known, was born on the 25 th April 1894 at 11:30 a.m. On the 1901 census Alexander, aged thirty-five, was working as a stone mason. He and Margaret had two children: Jane aged seven attended school, while their son John, aged five, was still too young. They lived in the High Street of New Galloway. Isabella their second daughter was born on 21 st May 1901. Three years later Jeanie, their eldest daughter, died aged ten. Margaret McQueen died on the 26th May 1909 at the age of forty-three of pulmonary tuberculosis. 2 Appear before a congregation, minister or Kirk session, especially for rebuke. 27 By the time of the 1911 census Alexander, now a widower aged forty-five, was described as a mason contractor and an employer. His son John at fourteen was a message boy, Isabella at nine was at school and his son Alexander was four. He employed a housekeeper Jane Laurie to look after them all. In 1925 Alexander, aged fifty-nine, remarried after having been a widower for sixteen years. He married Annie Stewart his housekeeper. Annie was at thirty-one a lot younger than Alexander. They lived at Wylies Brae in New Galloway. Alexander outlived three of his four children, only the youngest, his son Alexander, survived him. Alexander McCubbing died on the 5th November 1928 of pneumonia at Wylies Brae. He was aged sixty-two. On his death certificate he was described as a master builder. Alexander died intestate. On the 22nd May his estate of £548.9s.4d went to his relict Annie McCubbing. John McCubbing was born in 1896. After working first as a messager boy and then as an apprentice in his father’s firm, he joined ‘A’ Company of the 7th Battalion Cameron Highlanders. On Saturday 16th September there was a report concerning John, aged just twenty, in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard: A New Galloway Man Missing Mr M’Cubbing of the firm of Messers Murry and M’Cubbing, builders, New Galloway, has received official information that his son, Lance-Corporal John M’Cubbing, has been missing since the 17th August. Lance-Corporal M’Cubbing, who is 18 [sic] years of age joined the Cameron Highlanders in January, 1915, and has been over a year at the front. Before the war he was engaged as an apprentice with his father’s firm. John was reported missing in action during an attack by the Cameron Highlanders on a Switch Line and the taking of the Elbow during the Battle of the Somme. John has no known grave, but he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France (Pier and Face 15B). Alexander built the War Memorials, designed by Dodds of Dumfries, for New Galloway and Kells. His own son is commemorated upon the one at Kells. Sarah McNairn was born in 1837 or 1834. Sarah never married but continued living with her widowed mother Mary McNairn until Mary’s death. Sarah continued working as a domestic servant, as reported on each census, or as an agricultural labourer, as reported on her death certificate. During her adult life she lived in the High Street. Sarah died on 16th March 1890 at eleven o’clock in the morning of bronchitis, from which she had suffered for the previous fourteen days. At the time of her death Sarah was described as a pauper. References: Census: 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911. Commonwealth War Graves Lance Corporal John McCubbing | War Casualty Details | CWGC [accessed 17 April 2022] Concise Scots Dictionary, 2nd Edition 2017, E.U.P. DGNHAS, 9/11/2012 A meeting Report on War Memorials in Dumfries and Galloway by Paul Goodwin (online) [accessed 17 April 2022] Dumfries and Galloway Standard, Saturday 16th September Kells Kirk Session, Minutes and accounts 1855-1872, CH2/202/5 image 121 National Probate Index 868/1/5 page 5 of 13 Scotlands Monumental Inscription, Kells Statutory Register of Births 868/6, 868/11 Statutory Register of Marriages 868/7, 821/120 Statutory Register of Deaths 868/8, 868/5, 868/4 28 Inscription 95 – Williamson by Laura Anderson In Memory of Dora Wordsworth Williamson wife of J.C. Maitland Gordon of Kenmure who died at Kenmure Castle 25th February 1903 Dora Wordsworth Williamson was born in 1850 to Dugald T Williamson and Julia Curwen Williamson. Her father was the Minister of the Established Church in the 1851 census and her mother was noted as a ‘Ministers Wife’. Dora had four older siblings: Henry, John, Julia and Isabella. There were four servants present in the household in 1851. In the 1861 census, a different story is told. The family members are noted only by their initials. Dora’s mother is a widow at age 50, she notes that she is an ‘EC minister’s wife’ and that she was born in Wales. Her mother Elizabeth Stanley, also widowed and aged 77, lives with the family and is noted as a ‘Naval Officer’s wife’, she was born in England. Henry is noted as a ‘Scholar of St Mary’s Hall in Oxford’, with his sisters Julia and Dora surviving and Dora noted as completing ‘Home Tuition’. Sometimes on records, Dora’s father is called Dugal Williamson. He was born in 1903 in Twynholm and his father was also a Reverend, John Williamson. Dora’s mother was born in Gwaenysgor in 1810 to Henry and Elizabeth Stanley. Dora Wordsworth Maitland Gordon died on the 25th of February 1903 at 9.50pm. Her father and mother were deceased at the time of her death. Her cause of death was noted as Intestinal Obstruction due to [??] construction in [spleen?] of Colon. Possibly related to an operation colectomy. There was no record of Dora and James having children. Record of Dora's death 29 Inscription 104 – McCheyne & Mulholland By Tamara Fulcher James McClaymont McCHEYNE is recorded living at Back Street, Kells, with his wife Mary, in the 1901 census; the year of birth for both is given as 1855. James’ occupation was given as ‘General Carter’. He was born at Glasserton in the Machars, 38 miles from Kells. Ten years earlier when James he resided at Kilquhanity Cottage, Kirkpatrick Durham, and was working as an agricultural labourer. His and Mary’s years of birth were different – 1854 and 1856 respectively. Mary MULHOLLAND was born on 18th April 1855 to Isabella Campbell and Thomas Mulholland at Crossmichael, and was baptised as a Roman Catholic at Dalbeattie (St Peter’s). In the 1861 census she was 5 yrs old, living in ‘Hotel’ at Crossmichael. Her father is recorded as an Irish quarryman. In the 1901 census Mary was aged 46, with no occupation given. It appears she had eleven children, the first being born when Mary was around 23 years old and the last when she was 44. James and Mary’s first child was a daughter, Isabella McCheyne, born in 1879 at Crossmichael. At the time of the 1881 census she was 2 yrs old, and when the census-taker visited she was staying at grandparents’ house in Crossmichael with her mother Mary, who was 25 y-o and recorded as a ‘farm labourer’s wife’. Also present were Isabella’s younger sister Mary McCheyne (an infant – age 0), and her grandmother Isabella Mulholland (a 67 y-o, widow, occupation given as ‘general labourer’). Isabella is recorded again in the 1891 census at 12 yrs old. Thomas MULHOLLAND McCheyne was born on 17th January 1884 and baptised as a Roman Catholic at the church of St John the Evangelist, Castle Douglas. He was given his mother’s maiden name as his middle name. Thomas died aged 20, died five months after his mother. Private Alex J McCHEYNE was born 10th April 1897 and also baptised at St John’s in Castle Douglas, on 16th April. He was killed at Vermelles on 28th April 1916 aged 19, while serving with the 7th Cameron Highlanders. His full name, Alexander Joseph McCheyne, is recorded on cwgc.org. Alexander is commemorated on the Loos Memorial at Pas de Calais, which names 20,592 casualties. Also noted on CWGC is that Alexander had three brothers also killed in the war. Mary McCHEYNE was born at Crossmichael on 25th April 1880 (the year was given elsewhere as 1881). There is no record of her having married. She died in November 1916 aged 36 at St. Quentin; if this is in France, it could be that she was abroad in association with the war effort, as St Quentin was a key region in fighting from 1914 onwards. However, Mary is not recorded on cwgc.org so if she was there, she did not die on active service or for any associated illness or injury. 30 it could be that [Mary] was abroad in association with the war effort, as St Quentin was a key region in fighting from 1914 onwards Corporal David McCHEYNE, who was born in Kells parish, died of wounds on 13th March 1917 aged 22. Like his brother Alexander, he had enlisted in the 7th Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. David is interred at the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, also at Pas de Calais. Interestingly cwgc.org names David’s three brothers who fell in the war but states that he is the son of “James and Mary McCheyne of Richmond Hill, Miniota, Manitoba, Canada.” There is a McCheyne family recorded in Manitoba at this time but perhaps the records are confused. Quartermaster Sergeant James McCHEYNE was born in 1890 and was a career soldier, having joined up in 1906 aged 16 (at attestation he gave his age as 18 yrs 2 mo, which wasn’t true; the very reliable Roman Catholic baptismal records show James was born on 18 th January 1890 and baptised at Kirkcudbright in February). James was killed in action in Belgium on 3rd October 1917 while serving with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and he is interred in Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Belgium. His age at death is given as 26 on cwgc.org (the headstone says he was 27). James was married and is recorded on cwgc.org as the husband of Janet Mc Cheyne, of 24, Rolland St., Maryhill, Glasgow. The personal inscription that Janet chose for James’ headstone in Belgium reads: ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED AND LOST CAN UNDERSTAND WAR'S BITTER COST. Frances W McCHEYNE died in World War I, on 12/01/1918 when he was aged 19 – lost at sea when serving aboard HMS Narborough. This was an M-Class Destroyer built for the Royal Navy. On 12th January 1918, she and her sister ship, HMS Opal, were wrecked on the cliffs at Hesta Rock, just to the north of Windwick Bay, South Ronaldsay. Only one sailor survived; 188 were killed. Most of the casualties were never found and are commemorated on the Portsmouth Memorial. On cwgc.org the record states that Ordinary Seaman Francis Wallace McCheyne is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. James and Mary had other children who are not named on this headstone: Agnes Nan McCheyne, born in 1888 at Tongland was a 13 y-o scholar in the 1901 census. Frederick W McCheyne (also known as William Frederick McCheyne) was born 1892 at Kirkpatrick, and was 9 y-o and also a scholar in 1901. Both died in 1962. John McCheyne was born in 1882 and Margaret McCheyne in 1885. 31 Inscription 115 – Brown & Murray by Laura Anderson In Loving Memory of Alexander BROWN late Serg’t Major, Galloway, R.V., who died at Carlisle 3rd Jan’y 1905 aged 71 years. And Anne MURRAY his wife who died at New Galloway 23rd July 1872 aged 36 years. Also Mary their daughter, born 8th Dec’r 1870, died 22nd April 1871. Also their granddaughter Elizabeth RUSSELL BROWN who died at Knockallan 25th Feb’y 1929 aged 25 years. Within the village of Minnigaff in 1834, Alexander Brown was born to William and Mary Brown. His father is noted to be from Wigtownshire whereas his mother’s birthplace is narrowed down to Kirkcowan in Wigtownshire. Alexander is noted as the only child living with his parents in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 census, however his parents were aged 42 and 38 respectively when he was born, so it is possible that Alexander had siblings that had left the home before the 1841 census. Interestingly, in the 1861 census, 12-year-old Mary McGarvah is noted as a granddaughter within the household. No previous record of a Mary McGarvah is noted within the surrounding area; however this is possibly hindered by the spelling of the surname which may be a mistake by the census taker. Alexander lived with his parents in Dalnotry, Minnigaff in the 1841 census. The family moved to Craigdews when Alexander was 17 and they resided within Graymarestail when Alexander was 27. Alexander’s military record listed him in 1852 as a Driver with the Royal Horse Artillery, his record shows him attesting to 17 years and 4 months of service within the regiment. William Brown is noted as a ‘Labourer road repairer’, a role that his son initially joined him in with the 1851 census noting him as a ‘Road labourer’. However, a change of career occurred during the 10 years between 1851 and 1861 with the 1861 census registering Alexander as a ‘Solider Serijt Instructor of Volunteers’. Alexander’s military record listed him in 1852 as a Driver with the Royal Horse Artillery, his record shows him attesting to 17 years and 4 months of service within the regiment. We know from the credentials listed on his grave that Alexander Brown died as a Sergeant Major within the Galloway Royal Volunteers regiment. In June 1862, Alexander Brown married Anne Murray within the Parish of Kells. Alexanders parents were present with his father named as a ‘Roadman labourer’ as was Anne’s parents, David Murray, a ‘shepherd’ and Agnes Murray (Nee Logie). Alexander was 28 whereas his new bride was 26; the two resided within New Galloway and Alexander had been promoted to Government Drill Sergeant of the Royal Volunteers. Marriage record of Alexander Brown and Anne Murray 32 The following year of 1863, their first-born child William was born in February. William was born in the parish of Kells. William was followed by six siblings, five of which were noted in the 1871 census. William was noted as 8, David Brown was noted as 6, John Brown was noted as 5, Anne Brown was noted as a 4, Alexander Brown was noted as 2 alongside newborn Mary Brown. The older children were noted as ‘Scholars’, presumably attending a nearby school. Their father was 37 and held the role of Sergeant Master Rifle whereas their mother was 34. All children were registered as having been born in New Galloway. Record of William Brown's birth The 1881 census paints a far different picture, one filled with loss and hardship. Anne Brown, nee Murray, passed in 1872, a year after the previous census was noted. Three children were lost: David, John and Mary. Mary Brown was noted on the gravestone alongside her parents as she was lost in infancy. A new child is noted in the 1881 census: Helen Brown aged 8. Alexander is 47 during this census and holds the same role, his eldest son William is 18 and works as a ‘Shoemaker Apprentice’. Alexander Junior is 12 and is still a scholar, his sister Annie is 14 and is a ‘Dressmaker Apprentice’. Sourcing information after the 1881 census was incredibly difficult! I could not source whether any of Alexander’s children survived to adulthood, other than Alexander Junior who was the father of Elizabeth Russel Brown who is also listed on the gravestone. Anne Murray was born in the parish of Kells in 1836, she was baptised on the 13th of November 1836. She died at age 36 after having seven children with her husband Alexander Brown. In the 1861 census, it is revealed that her father David Murray aged 83 was also born in the parish of Kells, whereas her mother Agnes aged 67 was born in Glasgow. Anne is 24 and was noted as a ‘Dress Maker’. She had two older siblings living at home with her, an older brother James and a sister Jane. The family lived in High Street, Kells in Kirkcudbrightshire. Anne’s daughter Helen was born in May of 1862, just two months before she passed away. When Anne passed in July of 1862, both her parents were deceased. Anne passed from Phthtisis Pulmonalis, more commonly known as Tuberculosis. The duration of the disease was acknowledged as 9 months and Anne passed in New Galloway. Mary Brown was born to Alexander and Anne Brown, she was born on 8th December 1870 and died at age 1 on the 22nd of April 1871. Her death record notes that she died from diarrhoea and vomiting that lasted for 12? Hours. Elizabeth Russel Brown was difficult to source. The only piece of information I could find was her death certificate. Elizabeth died in Knockallan on the 24th of February 1929. Her profession was noted as ‘Domestic Servant’ and she was single at the time. Her father was Alexander Brown (Junior) who was a ‘Draper’ and deceased at the time of Elizabeth’s death. Her mother was Ellen Jemina Brown, nee Byers, who was still living. Elizabeth possibly died from a condition called Chronic ‘parenchymatous nephritis’. From what I’ve seen the disease is a type of chronic kidney disease and could have been improved with a better diet. 33 Inscription 136 – Hewitson by Sharon Course In Loving Memory of Samuel HEWITSON who died at Cottage Hospital, Castle Douglas on 25th May 1908 aged 54 years. Also James, his eldest son, M.M., 9th Loyal North Lancs. Regt. Missing Flanders 25th April 1918 aged 30 years. Also Elizabeth THOMPSON, his wife, who died at Carnearie, Parton 9th Dec'r 1943 aged 79 years. Also Thomas, their son, who died in New Zealand 5th Aug 1954 aged 64 years. Also Jessie CAMPBELL HEWITSON, their daughter, who died 14th Nov 1972 aged 80 years. Also Agnes HEWITSON, their daughter, who died 7th May 1976 aged 89 years. Erected by his widow and family. SAMUEL and ELIZABETH HEWITSON This surname is often spelled Hoatson on the census, possibly due to how it was pronounced locally. Samuel was born in 1857 near Dalry, to James (a shepherd) and Agnes nee McMillan. He married Elizabeth Thompson, born 1863, of Carsphairn, in 1885, when he was 28 and she was 22. They lived at Culmark farm, near Dalry. By 1901, the family had moved to Drumbain farm. They had the following children: 1887 Agnes 1888 James 1890 Thomas Hastings 1892 Jessie Campbell 1894 Albert (died in 1980 in Castle Douglas) JAMES (1888 – 1918) James was reported missing, presumed killed, on April 25th at the Battle of the Lys, known as the 4th battle of Ypres. This was part of the German final push to break through to Ypres. The battle advanced the German line 15km but ultimately this couldn’t be sustained and they withdrew. Both sides suffered 120,000 deaths/missing for those 15km. Between April 10th and April 14th, Allied troops were in a precarious position and Field Marshall Douglas Haig issued his famous order, which James would have been told about. “With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each of us must fight on to the end.” James, who had been in France/Flanders for a year, fought bravely during the battle and was posthumously awarded the Military Medal. His body was never found and he is commemorated on Tynecot Memorial in Flanders, as well as in Kells. “With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each of us must fight on to the end.” James left a widow, Euphemia Hewitson (nee Middleton), who was born in Kirkcudbright and worked as a domestic servant. Before the war, he worked as a steam train driver. He signed up for service in 1915. His army record reports he was 5ft 6ins, 11 stone, in good health. He and Euphemia married on 21 st April 1917 in Kilmarnock, and four days later he was sent to France. She never saw her husband again. He was 27 and she was 35. They had no children. He left her 256 pounds in effects, which included 30 pounds backpay from the army. Euphemia received his Military Medal in 1922. She never remarried. In 1928, she moved to Barre, Vermont, USA, to live with her sister Janet (two years younger) and her husband Gordon Watson, and their two little girls. 34 She died in 1961 in Barre, Vermont, and is buried there. THOMAS (1890 – 1954) Like his brother James, Thomas served in WW1, as a rifleman in Kings Royal Rifle Corps and tank corp. Before and after the war, he worked as a shepherd, like his father. In 1926, Thomas emigrated to New Zealand and settled in Wellington, where he worked as a storeman and a labourer. Thomas got into trouble in Wellington for ‘obscene language’. He was arrested and fined two pounds. Thomas got into trouble in 1932 in Wellington for ‘obscene language’. He was arrested and fined two pounds. On his arrest record, he is described as 5ft 5 and ¾ inches, fresh face, auburn hair going bald, blue eyes, tattoo of a woman on his right arm and an anchor on his left, plus scars on arms. In 1935, Thomas found love. He married Iva Esther Merson, aged 48, who had been married in 1905 to a Thomas Merson and had three grown-up children with him. Thomas Merson divorced Iva in 1928 on the grounds of adultery and drunkenness. The couple had been separated for some time but Thomas Merson heard that Iva had been seeing a man called Frederick Smith. He went to her house and caught in her bed with Smith, telling the judge at the divorce hearing that she had been drinking. As was usual for those days, the case was fully reported in the newspapers. She did not continue to see Smith. She then met and married Thomas Hewitson. It seems to have been a stable marriage, with the couple living a quiet life in suburban Wellington. On 6th August 1954, the Press newspaper reported that Thomas, then 62, was riding his bicycle home from work and was in collision with a half-ton truck on the corner of Willis and Te Aro Streets at about 6.30pm. It was raining heavily with a strong southerly wind and visibility was poor. He died immediately of his injuries. Iva died in 1960 and is buried in Karori Cemetery, Wellington. No record of Thomas being buried with her. His record simply says Wellington. AGNES (1887 – 1976) and JESSIE CAMPBELL (1892 – 1972) In the 1901 census, at the age of 14, Agnes was working as a servant at Barskeoch Main farm near Dalry. In 1911, Jessie Campbell was also a servant, at Manse of Kells, where she worked for Kells minister Pirie Philip. He had lost his wife Mary two years earlier. Two of his children, Mary (25) and Percy (24) were also living at the manse. Agnes and Jessie seem to have led quiet lives. They never married or had children. ‘Maiden aunts’ were not unusual after WW1 and the loss of so many young men. Agnes appears in the 1939 census at a seafront hotel in Brighton, probably on a holiday. Both sisters lived long lives and are buried with their parents in Kells. 35 Inscription 144 – Muir by Jackie Carson From the grave inscription: Died in New Galloway 15th February 1864 aged 68 (born 1796) Son William (teacher) died 8th November 1852 aged 21 (born 1831?) Daughter Jane died 7th August 1861 aged 25 (born 1836) Son John (accountant) died at Denny 14th September 1864 aged 26 (born 1838) Son Archibald (writer) died in Edinburgh 17th January 1865 aged 30 (born 1835?) Son Peter (M.D.) died Wombwell Yorkshire 22nd October 1870 aged 31 (born 1840) Wife Jessie Douglas died 13th July 1874 aged 68 (born 1805) National Library of Scotland: 1841 Census living in schoolhouse, Kells. Birth year listed as 1801! With: Wife Jessie born 1806 Daughter Elizabeth born 1833 Son Archibald born 1835 Son John born 1838 Daughter Jane born 1837 Son Peter born 1840 Anne Robson 1851 Census living in High Street New Galloway - Bailie parochial schoolmaster and post-master, farming 7 acres with: Wife Jesse born 1805 Daughter Jane born 1836 Son John born 1838 Son Peter born 1840 Daughter Jesse born 1842 Mary Hope - servant In 1851 Archibald aged 16 is a boarder with Margaret Paterson in Twynholm. Trade is apprentice writer. No mention of Elizabeth but she pops up in 1871 and 1881 as Elizabeth Cowan - 7 High St, Kells with her husband and 3 kids. Trade is dressmaker. Dies in 1885 and is buried in Kells churchyard 1861 Census living in the school house in New Galloway - teacher with: Wife Jesse Muir born 1805 Elizabeth Campbell - servant William Craig - boarder Baptism record 24th Feb 1796 Mother - Elizabeth McCulloch Father - William Muir Marriage Record Jessy Douglas 26th April 1830 Jessie Muir turns up in 1871 as a widow (aged 65) at 1 High St Kells living with daughter Jessie Isabella who is a schoolmistress. 36 Inscription 149 – Lee by Sharon Course In memory of Louisa EGREMONT LEE wife of Tottenham LEE died at Overton 19th November 1860 aged 61. Lieut. John Egremont Lee killed at Tirowlee in Oude 22nd March 1858 aged 27. Lister HARTER LEE died at Overton 14th April 1856 aged 20. Also of Tottenham Lee, formerly of St. John's, Wakefield, husband of the above Louisa LEE who died at Cairn Edward in this Parish on the 28th August 1888 in his 95th year. Tottenham Lee was born on 2 February 1794 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. His father John Lee was a wealthy philanthropist, industrialist, lawyer and entrepreneur. John built the prestigious St John’s area of Wakefield, beautiful Georgian redbrick terraces in the centre of the town, which expanded hugely with mills and factories during the Industrial Revolution. Ahead of his time, John built St John’s with fancy, expensive facades but basic open interiors made of cheaper materials. Buyers could add walls and rooms to suit themselves. John Lee also created Britain’s first public railway, the Lake Lock Company, which anyone could pay to use. Until then, railways were created by companies to move their own goods. LLC was 3 miles long, horse drawn, and used by coal companies mainly. John Lee raised the money to build it by selling 126 public shares. The investors included John’s sons, Tottenham and John Junior. It closed in 1836 when bigger public railways were created. John Lee has a blue plaque on his former offices in St Johns. Tottenham’s unusual name does not come from the London borough. It appears to be in honour of an Irish aristocrat and industrialist called John Tottenham, an associate of John Lee in Wakefield. While his father and namesake both had the ‘golden touch’ with investments and ideas, Tottenham did not inherit his business sense unfortunately. Initially, like two of his brothers, he became a lawyer and signed an Article of Clerkship in 1820 to train under his famous father. While his brothers became well-known lawyers (one was the coroner for West Yorkshire), Tottenham invested in a worsted yarn factory and other ventures. On 6th October 1829, Tottenham married Louisa Egremont in York. Louisa (also on Gravestone 149, Kells) was from a wealthy family in Goole, Yorkshire, and was heiress to a considerable fortune. In 1841, the couple lived in a fine town house called Newton Lodge in Wakefield 3 with their six children – Louisa (11), John (9), Tottenham Junior (7), Jane (6), Lister (5) and Edward (3). Also living at the property was their nanny called Sophia Bateman and her niece Sarah (see Inscription 16), who worked as cook, plus three other servants. To fund this lifestyle and his investments in the 1830s, Tottenham borrowed from his father-in-law, John Egremont. When John Egremont died in 1840, Tottenham owed him 4500 pounds – a huge amount. In 1841, without ongoing loans from his father-in-law, Tottenham’s worsted yarn venture failed and he was bankrupted. There was still hope for Tottenham though – Louisa had an annual allowance of 400 pounds, and she and her two brothers were about to inherit her father’s fortune, split three ways. This does not appear to have any direct correlation to the current ‘Newton Lodge’ psychiatric hospital in Wakefield, which sits at some distance from where the town house was located (pers. comm. Sue Taylor, 9 th May 2022). 3 37 John Egremont, Louisa’s father was a wealthy farmer from Goole. He built a stately town house in Wakefield in 1811, Egremont House, which until recently was Wakefield’s registry office. His wife Hannah brought with her a huge fortune. But the money also brought a dark guilt for Hannah Egremont, which would haunt the family for two more generations. Hannah’s father, Thomas Crowther (1730 - 1810), was a wool stapler (buying fleeces, grading them, then selling to manufacturers), and at the time of his death owned a warehouse, the Woolpacks Inn on Wakefield, and other land and tenanted properties. Handsome but not rich, Crowther was described by his wife’s family as ‘not a finished gentleman’. Hannah (Hall) Heatherington, a young widow, brought to the marriage in 1768 a large inheritance from her first husband, plus a young daughter, Mary (b.1765). The couple had only one child together, a daughter Hannah (b.1770). Crowther ignored Mary and openly favoured his own daughter. Mary ended up running away to marry John Barker, also a wool stapler. When Crowther died, he left his whole estate to Hannah, including all the money his wife had inherited from Mary’s father. Hannah felt bad about this injustice but could do nothing as her money belonged to her husband, John Egremont. After Hannah’s death in 1827, her daughter Louisa found a letter, urging her to “do any kindness possible to any of the Barker family” as reparation for the wrong Crowther had done to them. On the night Crowther died in 1810, there was a violent thunderstorm. When his will became known, people said the storm was the devil waiting for Crowther's soul. On the night Crowther died in 1810, there was a violent thunderstorm...people said the storm was the devil waiting for Crowther's soul. Crowther and John Egremont’s fortunes were supposed to be split three ways between Louisa and her two brothers. The brothers contested the will, saying that Tottenham’s huge debt to John Egremont should be taken out of the amount Louisa inherited. The court case went on for six long years, ending up in the Chancery. It was ruled that Tottenham’s bankruptcy a year before his father-in-law’s death meant that it could not be taken out of the inheritance. After the court case, Tottenham and Louisa, plus the children, Sophia the nanny and Sarah the cook, moved to a large country house at Overton, New Galloway4. The reason for the move and choosing New Galloway is not known. Possibly, they wanted a fresh start away from Wakefield. Also, Lister was chronically unwell with chronic abcesses and ulcers, and country air might have been recommended over the industrial smog of Wakefield. With Louisa’s inheritance secured, there was no need to stay in Wakefield for financial reasons. Louisa died at Overton in 1860 from a stroke after losing two of her sons. Lister Harter Lee (also on Gravestone 149, Kells) died at Overton in 1856 aged 20, having suffered from his terrible skin condition for five years. Eldest son John Egremont Lee (also on Gravestone 149 Kells) was killed at Fort Tirowlee in Oudh (spelled Oude on the gravestone), North India, aged 27. 4 It is possible that the family owned multiple properties in New Galloway at one time, which included Glenlee Park and Glenlochar Lodge (pers. comm. Sue Taylor, 9th May 2022). 38 John was a Lieutenant in the 32nd Bengal Native Infantry during the Indian Mutiny (First War of Independence). The gravestone records 22nd March 1858 as his date of death but military dispatches report 21st March. By March 1858, most of the fighting had ceased and there is little information about the attack on this small fort. John was the only officer killed during the attack. His grave in India cannot be traced. Many cemeteries from the time of the mutiny have been demolished due to rapid expansion in the area and records were often destroyed after independence. John’s sister Jane married John Maitland of Kenmure, who was with the 46th Madras Regiment at the same time John served in India. The Madras regiments did not take part in the fighting. John had a distinguished career, notably as Colonel of the Galloway Rifles. Jane erected a memorial plaque to John Lee and John Maitland inside Kells Church with the Maitland arms on it (photo). Three of the Lees’ other children are commemorated on Gravestone 18 in Kells. Youngest son Edward Llewellen Lee (Gravestone 18) died at Havanna Harbour, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) in 1871. From the 1860s, plantation owners in the Pacific needed labourers and began contracting ship owners in a slave trade called “blackbirding”. At its height, around the time Edward was there, more than half of the adult male population was kidnapped to be sold into work overseas. It is unknown if Edward was there as part of this lucrative trade. Tottenham Lee Junior (Gravestone 18) never married and died of a stroke, aged 50, in 1884 in New Galloway. He is described as ‘an Australian sheep farmer’ on the death record. Eldest daughter Louisa Egremont Lee (Gravetone 18) also did not marry. She died at Cairn Edward, where the family moved to after Overton, in 1887 aged 56. She had a brain haemorrhage and was paralysed for 8 months before her death. Having outlived five of his six children, and his wife, Tottenham Lee died in 1888, aged 95, at Cairn Edward. His cause of death was simply given as ‘old age’. The family’s two servants, Sophia Bateson (d. 1869) and her niece Sarah (d.1895), who moved from Wakefield to New Galloway with the Lees, outlived them too, and have a memorial stone in Kells (see Inscription 16). Second daughter, Jane Maitland, known as ‘Nin’, was the only surviving member of Lee/Egremonts. She and John Maitland (both Gravestone 17) had no children. Exactly 101 years after her grandmother Hannah Crawford’s heartfelt letter was found, pleading for her half-sister’s wronged family be recompensed, Jane did exactly that. When she died in 1928, she bequeathed her estate, worth 15,251 pounds, to Hannah’s eldest surviving great-grandson, Freddie Barker but with one condition that he was happy to accept – that he changed his name to Egremont-Lee and continue Tottenham and Louisa’s legacy. References: Ancestry, Scotlandspeople, British Newspaper Archive, Reports of Cases Decided In The High Courts of Chancery (1853), National Army Museum, Wikitree. 39 Inscription 154 – Hobbs & Maitland by Murray Johnston 40 41 42 Inscription 162 – McLachlan & Greggan by Tamara Fulcher Erected in memory of Michael McLACHLAN who died at Glenlee May 31st 1871 aged 65 years. Also Thomas his son who died in the Crimea June 10th 1855 aged 22 years. Also Samuel his son who died at Glenlee March 15th 1866 aged 24 years. Also Margaret GREGGAN his wife who died at New Galloway 13th Feb'y 1880 aged 84 years. Michael McLACHLAN’s DOB is given variously as 1806 or 1807 in Ireland. He married Margaret GRIGGAN (or Greggan) on 23rd November 1826, i.e. when he was 19 or 20 years old. In the 1851 census Michael is a 44 y-o agricultural labourer living at Old Glenlee. His wife and two sons, David (aged 11) and Samuel (aged 9), both scholars, were present when the census-taker came round. Ten years later Michael and his family have moved to Porters Lodge – still on the Glenlee Estate – and Michael’s occupation is given as ‘wood forester’. By this time Samuel is nineteen and working as an agricultural labourer. The family have taken in boarders, two plasterers from Ireland and Midlothian. By the next census in 1871 Michael is 64 years old and still working as a ‘woodforrester’. Interestingly the only other person at home for this census apart from Michael and Margaret was John McLACHLAN, their 11 y-o grandson, born 1860 in England. Margaret GREGGAN (or GRIGGAN’s) DOB varies across a ten-year span across the records. The headstone inscription indicates she was born before 1800 but the only census that agrees with this was the one taken in 1871, when she is described as 74 y-o, having been born in 1797 in Borgue, Kirkcudbrightshire. This date makes Margaret approximately ten years older than her husband, Michael McLachlan. In previous census records Margaret’s DOB/POB was recorded as 1805 in Dalry. To speculate: either the ten-year age gap had been reduced (for appearances’ sake?) on the first two occasions, or Margaret was affected by confusion in 1871 and gave the wrong date. Michael and Margaret’s son Thomas McLACHLAN was baptised 26 April 1833 at Kells. In the 1851 census he was living at High St, Kells as an apprentice shoemaker in the household of widower John CROSBIE (b.1795), a master shoemaker employing 4 men. John had one son (also a shoemaker) and five daughters – quite a crowded house. Thomas McLachlan is listed as an unmarried male aged 17 (his birth year given as 1834). Thomas signed up for 10 years’ service and in response to the question “For what bounty did you enlist?” he answered “Four pounds.” Thomas’s military service record states that he was born in New Galloway. He joined the Scots Guards, his attestation taking place at Castle Douglas, at 10am on 2 October 1854 when he was aged 21 yrs 6 months. He was unmarried and gave his trade as ‘Shoemaker’. Thomas signed up for 10 years’ service and in response to the question “For what bounty did you enlist?” he answered “Four pounds.” At his attestation Thomas was 5’ 8” and a quarter, and described as having a “fresh complexion”, grey eyes and dark brown hair. The record continues by saying that Thomas was “In the East from 13 April 1855” and “Present at the siege of Sebastopol.” He died in the Crimea of cholera on 10th June 1855, having served 251 days. 43 Thomas’s younger brother Samuel McLACHAN was baptised on 27th December 1841 at Kells. He died at Glenlee on 15th March 1866 aged 24 yrs. He followed Thomas into the army. There is good information on Samuel from his military record which confirms his year of birth as 1841. His attestation date was 28th January 1862, when he was aged 20. Samuel is described on that date as 5’11” (and 5/8”!) with a fresh complexion, blue eyes, and light hair. His trade is given as ‘gamekeeper’. Samuel was discharged as a Corporal in 1st Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards on 22nd December 1865 after 3 yrs, 329 days with no service abroad. This was in consequence of “his being unfit for further service.” His discharge was confirmed 9th January 1866, with the further explanation of “being unfit for further service from consumption, constitutional, excited by the service.” On his discharge forms Samuel is described as a “good and efficient non-commissioned officer zealous in performance of his duties, trustworthy and sober…he is in possession of one good conduct medal since 28th January 1865…has never been tried by court martial.” His military rank was Private from 28 th January 1862, and Corporal from 28th April 1864 The reason for his discharge was further explained as ‘Phthisis Pulmonalis’ aka pulmonary consumption (Phthisis pulmonalis frequently takes place in consequence of neglected pneumonia, influenza, and measles. It was described in 18th and 19th centuries as a wasting disease with destruction of the lungs). The copperplate handwriting in Samuel’s military notes is not easy to read but says approximately: “In April 1865 was attacked with H…. Since which period he has drawn no regular duty. He is now in an advanced stage of the …. (disease?), although there are no active symptoms. He has an excellent character and has a good …. He is quite …. to contribute towards his limitations. The disability is …., excited by the service”. 44 Inscription 176 – Murray by A. B. Hall This imposing family plot consists of four gravestones surrounded by a sandstone kerb once fitted with iron railings. This forms a memorial to 26 members of the Murray family – 17 men and 9 women. Many of these will have been buried elsewhere. They were descended from John Murray and his wife Isabella Aitchison who are commemorated on the stone sadly lying broken in the enclosure. He died 11 August 1812 aged 90 and she died 17 July 1807 aged 74 years. Their eldest son John was Provost of New Galloway and laird of Troquain in Balmaclellan parish. The house is described by John Gifford as “very plain and rather altered house of the earlier C. 19. In the garden, a sundial, its baluster shaft provided in 1855. The head, dated 1616 is cubical but with chamfered corners. Dials on the faces, carved human heads on the corners”. “It is said he was one of the best judges of horses, sheep and cattle in the province, and his decisions on such subjects were rarely appealed against. He was held in such estimation by his fellow-townsmen that when the handsome granite bridge of five arches over the Ken at New Galloway was opened [1822] he was chosen to cross it first of all, followed by Viscount Kenmure in his carriage.” He died 13 March 1830 aged 64. “It is said he was one of the best judges of horses, sheep and cattle in the province…He was held in such estimation by his fellow-townsmen that when the handsome granite bridge of five arches over the Ken at New Galloway was opened [1822] he was chosen to cross it first of all” John Murray’s first wife was Isabella Douglas who died aged 33 on 24 May 1799. Their eldest son Peter inherited Troquain. He died in Armagh 1 December 1849 aged 55. Their second son was John who died in Jamaica in 1817 aged 22. Adam their third son was born in 1799, the year his mother died. He died in October 1838 in the State of New York. John Murray’s second wife was Agnes Manson. She had six children and died 24 December 1821 aged 37. Isabella 1805 – 1892 Anne 1808 – 1893 George 1812 – 1881 Margaret 1815 – 1905 William died in infancy James 1820 – 1850. He died a Captain in the East India Company on the Indus, near Mooltan aged 29. -----------------------------George Murray son of John Murray and his second wife, Agnes Manson, was born in New Galloway on 4 June 1812. “George Murray’s birthplace is not now in existence, having been pulled down several years ago, after serving for a lengthened period as the post-office of the burgh. It stood near the southern termination of the main street of New Galloway, and was a respectable-looking self-contained house, consisting of a storey and a half, with dormer windows inserted in a long sloping roof, and had a garden flower plot and paling between it and the public road. When inhabited by the Murrays, it was the most imposing house in the place . . . when they left it for the large, two-storied residence called Meadowbank which they also owned.” He 45 was educated at Kells School and the University of Edinburgh. He was the Minister of Girthon parish in 1843 and acted clerk to the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright 1843-68. In 1851 he moved to Balmaclellan. Two years earlier he inherited Troquain from Peter Murray, the eldest son of John Murray and his first wife, Isabella Douglas. In 1843 George married Elizabeth Murray Hyslop, daughter of James Hyslop of Glenlee. She died at the Manse of Balmaclellan 25 March 1879 aged 57 years. They have a memorial inside the Church at Balmaclellan. Rev. George Murray Their children were: Margaret Hope born 17 Jan. 1845 married J. R. Hope MD. Dr. John born 12 Sept 1846. A surgeon on the ‘Vicksburg’, a Dominion Line steamer, which foundered on 1st June 1875 after hitting an iceberg while travelling from Quebec to Liverpool. Five men were picked up from a boat on 3rd. Two other boats containing about 40 people were successfully launched but were lost. The captain and between 40 and 50 others went down with the ship, including one man from Annan and another from Dumfries. Agnes Isabella born 25 April 1848. Married James Ewer Gillespie, Minister of Kirkgunzeon, She died at Halkyn, Dumfries on 15 July 1923. James of Troquain born 30 Nov. 1850. He worked for the Manchester and Salford Bank in Manchester and died 26 Dec. 1914 at Meadow Bank, New Galloway. Rev. George 1 Oct 1852. Minister of Balmaclellan 1915-20. Adam born 27 April 1854. A calico printer died at Southfield, Lennoxtown, 26 July 1925 aged 71. His wife was Edith Eleanor who died 28 Oct. 1947 aged 87. Both are commemorated on a Celtic cross in Balmaclellan churchyard. Eliza Jane born 24 June 1856 died 17 Jan 1940. Dr. Robert Alexander born 24 June 1858 died at Apsley, Stockport 4 Oct. 1931 aged 73. William Charles born 2 Dec. 1860 died at Shanghai, China 3 April 1911 aged 50. Ann Clementina born 25 Aug 1862 died 11 June 1932. Thomas Patrick born 1 Sept. 1865 died 22 Nov 1873 at Balmaclellan Manse aged 8 years. George Murray “was the model of a country clergyman; devotedly attached to his flock, and shared in all their joys and sorrows; passionately fond of rural sports . . . he was a zealous antiquary, an accomplished botanist, and an adept in agriculture.” He wrote the Balmaclellan entry for the New Statistical Account, 1845. He was buried in Kells in April 1881. ----------------------------George Murray 1852-1920 was the third son of the Rev. George Murray and Elizabeth Hyslop. He was born on 1 Oct. 1852 and was educated at Balmaclellan, Ewart High School, Newton-Stewart and Edinburgh University M.A. and B.D. He also went to Leipzig. From 1888 – 1915 he was Minister in the parish of Sauchie, near Stirling and “acted as clerk to the Presbytery of Stirling . . . He was also Senior Chaplain to the Argyll and 46 Sutherland Highlanders, and received the Territorial Decoration.” He was Minister for Balmaclellan from 1915 until his death on 20 April 1920. He married Elizabeth daughter of Edward Lumsden, minister of Midmar on 21 August 1895. Their children were: Enid Elizabeth born 18 June 1896 2nd Lieut. John born 16 Nov 1897 killed in action 16 Aug 1917. He was educated at Dollar Academy and Fettes College, where he was in the Cadet Corps. He was commissioned into the King’s Own Scottish Borderers and went to France in December 1916 and joined the 1st Battalion. On the night of 15th/16th August 1917 he was out marking ground prior to an attack when he was killed by a sniper. This was the battle of Langmarck “the most successful we ever had”. “2nd Lieut J. Murray (of the 5th Battalion) was the only officer killed, but 25 O.R. fell”. C.S.M. J. Skinner and C.Q.M.S. W. Grimaldeston were both awarded the V.C. Gravestone of George and Elizabeth Murray and their children in Balmaclellan He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial in Belgium, a stained-glass window in Balmaclellan Church and on a stone cross on the west side of Loch Ken. Evelyn Hope born 18 March 1899. Married 26 Aug. 1924, Thomas Kennedy Johnston, Minister of Balmaclellan. George Murray inherited the Troquain estate from his brother James in 1914. The pall bearers at the funeral of James Murray were: Rev. George Murray (brother) Adam Murray (brother) Dr. Robert Murray (brother) Rev. J. E. Gillespie (brother-in-law) Dr. Hope M. Gillespie (nephew) Mr. Murray (nephew) Mr. G. R. Murray of Parton Hector Stewart (valet) Gravestone of John and Kate Murray at Balmaclellan He was buried in Balmaclellan churchyard alongside his wife Kate Hollins who died 16 March 1913. Both George Murrays would probably liked to have been described as men of letters as they wrote poetry, articles on curling and biblical stories. The verse below is taken from a song that refers to his fishing exploits at Lochinvar: Let Criffel boast of Kindar’s lake Hard by the Solway sea, Lone Lochinvar, ‘mid lofty hills, Is dearer far to me. When purple heath and brackens green Adorn thy mountain side, Then let me drift past Helen’s Isle And rock upon thy tide. 47 In Balmaclellan churchyard there is a gravestone for Rev. George Murray B.D. of Troquain. Born 1 Oct. 1852 Died 20 April 1920. Elizabeth Lumsden died Meadowbank 22 April 1945 aged 76. Their daughters Enid Elizabeth 1896-1995 and Evelyn Hope 1899-1987 and only son John 1897-1917 killed in action. In New Galloway Meadowbank is described “At the s. end of the High Street, the white-harled Meadowbank of c.1800 on the E, its stone portico a Victorian addition. It is set well back, the approach guarded by a pair of early C19 bowended cottages”. ------------------------------Adam Murray 1767-1818 was the second son of Provost John Murray and Isabella Aitchison. He was apprenticed to Cannon and Smith aged 13 at Chowbent, Leigh, Lancashire, making cotton spinning machinery until 1787. After three years as a machinery maker in Chowbent he moved to Manchester where he erected an eight-storey mill. In 1798 he was joined by his brother George 1772-1855 and between 1801 and 1804 the partners built another eight-storey building followed by two four-storey blocks. The machinery was driven by steam. The area at Murray Street was the largest in the world, which in 1815 employed 1,215 hands. Adam never married and lived in Newton Street until he built Rosehill, Manchester. He also owned Clugston in Wigtonshire. He died on 26 June 1818 and was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary’s, Manchester. The sarcophagus gravestone is no more but the recycled inscription survives including a coat of arms. Adam left a legacy but not a dynasty. His name is not on the family memorial in New Galloway churchyard. James Murray was the third son of John and Isabella Murray. He was a cotton spinner and was married to Miss E. Stewart. He operated independently from A. and G. Murray in a mill on their premises. He died on 29 July 1821 aged 51. The area at Murray Street was the largest in the world, which in 1815 employed 1,215 hands. Their only sister Margaret, c.1766-c.1830, married 1796 Archibald Carruthers, 1766-1840, who had a substantial business in Manchester by 1815. They bought Craig estate, Balmaclellan c.1820. -------------------------------------George Murray 1772-1855 was the fourth son of John Murray and Isabella Aitchison. He went south and served an apprenticeship with Messrs Cannan and Smith as a textile machine maker. In 1798 he joined his older brother Adam in the partnership A. and G. Murray. Adam already had three working premises. They now embarked on another eight-storey mill with machinery driven by steam. This was followed by more buildings in a rectangle in the centre of which was a canal basin linked by a tunnel to the Rochdale canal. Ancoats Hall, Image © Manchester Archives Plus 48 George married Jane Cannan of Leigh 11 Sept. 1802 and they were to have 14 children. By 1813 they had bought Ancoats Hall which they demolished and built a new house on the site. As Adam died in 1818 George continued to run a successful enterprise until 1850 when he sought help from Sir W.H.H. Houldsworth. The business prospered again and was taken over by two of George’s sons: James who died in London 1889 and Benjamin Rigby who bought the Parton estate and died in July 1921. Three of their brothers represented the Company abroad. John who died in 1851 in Colombo, Ceylon; William Cannon died in 1856 in Charleston, South Carolina and Adam on returning from India died in London in 1844. George Murray died in 1855 aged 83 and his wife died in 1878. MURRAY Three suggestions about the origin of the Murray family in New Galloway have been published. 1. John Murray the game-keeper who died in 1777 is supposed to have come with his family from the Moffat area because of his Jacobite sympathies and sought shelter with Gordon of Kenmure (W. Kennedy p 95). He was appointed game-keeper and made a name for himself by luring the 72lbs pike to his rod and delivering to the castle. Buried in Kells no. 313. His son John 1725 – 1812 worked on the farm becoming foreman. He then became a shopkeeper in New Galloway and became a Baillie of the Burgh. He married Isobell Aitchison and their son John 1766 – 1830 was also a shopkeeper and became Provost. (Lands and their Owners pp 69-74). He was also able to buy Troquain estate in Balmaclellan parish in 1819 from James McConnel. 2. The Murrays in Annandale were a cadet branch of the Murrays of Philiphaugh near Selkirk. They were a family of well-respected lawyers. When Adam Murray died in 1818 and was buried at St. Mary’s Manchester it was perhaps the Philiphaugh Murray coat of arms which was utilized on his tomb. 3. The Murrays had a farm in Annandale belonging to the Murrays who as earls of Annandale had (East Galloway Sketches pp 327 -332) property in Drifesdale. All these suggestions could be correct. References The Buildings of Scotland Dumfries and Galloway, John Gifford, 1996 William McCandlish, Kells Graveyard p 467 Meadowbank, New Galloway p 469 Balmaclellan, Troquain p 115 ‘To Grasp an Opportunity’ W. Kennedy, 2016 Ancoats Hall Manchester Wikipedia East Galloway Sketches Alexander Trotter M.D., 1901 Rev. George Murray F.S.A. pp 327 – 332 Balmaclellan Parish M.I. D. and G.F.H.S. Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Synod of Dumfries and Galloway, 1917 Presbytery of Kirkcudbright, 1950 Glenkens Gazette Issue 96 Oct/Nov The Glenkens Cotton Kings by Ted Cowan, 2016 Lands and their Owners P.H. McKerlie, 1877, Vol.3 pp 69-74 The K.O.S.B. in the Great War Captain Stair Gillow, 1930 49 Inscription 184 – Reilly by Michelle MacIver Charles Henry Reilly, Captain Royal Artillery, Eldest son of Colonel…Reilly, Engineers, who Died at New Galloway August 1876 aged 35 years Charles Henry Reilly, possibly born 30th January 1841, Father Lt Colonel B G Reilly. Enlisted in 1855 (14 years old) and commissioned in Bengal. The admissions record contains errors. The discharge date is incorrect, and his father’s initials are different. There is no information about Charles Reilly in the census records and initial searches suggest that he may have been born in Delhi, probably due to his father already serving as an officer. 50 Inscription 201 – Herese & Corson By Tamara Fulcher RC MB 1707 – Here lyes the corps of Agnes HERESE spous to Robert CORSON, also Mary, Agnes & Marion, Margrat, at one birth. Rob’t, Andrew, James, at one birth. John, Allxr CORSONs, children to Rot. CORSON, BBURCES in, New Toun of Galloway & Agnes McBURNY his spous. This is a unique headstone in Kells Churchyard with Adam, Eve and the Tree of Life sculpted in deep relief on the reverse. However because it is such an early date, information about the family buried here is hard to track down. There are no birth, marriage or death records for Agnes HERESE. The spelling of that surname within the inscription may not be correct, although it is known elsewhere in Scotland during the 17 th and 18th centuries: Jonet HERESE married James BAXTER 13 Feb 1631 at Monifieth, Angus; Jannet HERESE married George RUNCIMAN 25 Feb 1709 at Cargil, Perthshire; and Christian HERESE married David THOMSON 14 June 1730 at Dron, Perthshire. This surname is also recorded within the same timeframe in Yorkshire and Middlesex. The phrasing of the inscription implies Agnes Herese had two sets of multiple births with deaths in infancy: four daughters ‘at one birth’ then three sons, also ‘at one birth’. The phrasing of the inscription implies Agnes Herese had two sets of multiple births with deaths in infancy: four daughters ‘at one birth’ then three sons, also ‘at one birth’. Agnes predeceased her husband, Robert CORSON. Robert Corson, Burgess in New (Town of) Galloway, married twice, and his second wife was also called Agnes. Robert and Agnes McBurny lost two sons, John and Alexander. McBURNY is fairly well recorded as a surname in Dumfries & Galloway with several named Agnes, although none of their dates clearly correspond to this headstone. Two Agnes McBurnys were baptised in Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire in 1706 and 1731; at only 21 miles from New Galloway it is not inconceivable that Agnes McBurny who resided in New Galloway was born into the same family. CORSON is even more well known as a surname in southwest Scotland. There are several branches of the Corson family recorded at Crawford and Leadhills in Lanarkshire through baptisms, marriages and burials. Within D&G Corsons are recorded at Dalry, Balmaghie, Dumfries, Glencairn, Colvend, Caerlaverock, New Abbey and Thornhill during the 17th and 18th centuries. 51 Inscriptions 209 & 210 – Kennedy by Jennifer Roberts John Kennedy was born around 1668, possibly in New Galloway, and died on the 7th December 1732 at the age of sixty-four, possibly in Ayrshire. Very little is known about him. It is possible that his parents were Hugh, and Jean, a daughter of Major Thomas Kennedy of Baltersan, and that he married Marion Campbell a daughter of the Provost of Ayr. The National Archives has a record of a case mounted by Sir John Kennedy of Culzeane against a Hugh Arbuthnot to verify the title of the land of Balterson conveyed by Hugh Kennedy of Ardmillan and Balterson to his son John Kennedy in February 1701. In 1709, a John Kennedy, son of Major Thomas Kennedy of Baltersan, had sasine of the lands of Baltersan (Roberts 2022). As the Ardmillane Arms are on John’s tombstone it is possible that this is the same John Kennedy as David Kennedy’s father. David Kennedy was born around 1695 in Ayrshire. David married Elizabeth Chapman. They had several children Inscription 209 who died at a young age and are mentioned on the tombstone. Marrion died on the 25th of June 1732 aged five, Agnes on the 4th March 1735 aged three and Elisabeth on the 15th September 1735 aged six. David Kennedy bought Knocknaling from his cousin William Kennedy in 1740. He died on the 15th April 1768 at the age of seventy-three. David Kennedy is described as a Merchant in New Galloway. It is probable that David and Elizabeth were the parents of the famous Manchester manufacturer John Kennedy, who according to Pigot’s Directory was going to open a woollen factory in New Galloway. This extract from Samuel Smilies Industrial Biography certainly suggests this, although he downplays their origins: John Kennedy's parents were respectable peasants, possessed of a little bit of ground at Knocknalling (in the parish of Kells), in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, on which they contrived to live, and that was all. John was one of a family of five sons and two daughters, and the father dying early, the responsibility and the toil of bringing up these children devolved upon the mother. She was a strict disciplinarian, and early impressed upon the minds of her boys that they had their own way to make in the world. One of the first things she made them think "if you have gotten mechanical about was, the learning of some useful trade for the skill and intelligence, and are purpose of securing an independent living; "for," said she, "if you have gotten mechanical skill and honest and trustworthy, you will intelligence, and are honest and trustworthy, you will always find employment and be always find employment and be ready to avail ready to avail yourselves of yourselves of opportunities for advancing yourselves in life." opportunities for advancing yourselves in life." Elizabeth Chapman died on the 16th December 1782 at the age of ninety-one. 52 References Livingstone, Alistair, The Glenkens, Cattle, Cotton and Capitalism Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society Vol. 90 pp67-78 Pigot and Co. New Commerical Directory 1825-6, London, 1825, page 485 Roberts, J. 2022 John Kennedy [online] available at John Kennedy (bef.1681-1732) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree Smiles, Samuel Industrial Biography: Iron workers and Tool-makers John Murray 1864 53 Inscription 257 – Jardine by Jackie Carson From the grave inscription: Margaret Jardine spouse to Samuel McChesnie (late bailie of New Galloway) Died July 15 1702 Samuel McChesnie died 1st March 1723 Margaret McChesnie - child William McChesnie - child Mention of 2nd Spouse Susanna Roe National Library of Scotland: Margaret Jardine Only mention is grave inscription as above Two entries with one having date of death as July 15 and the other July 16th Spelling differences Margaret/ Margaret and lies/lys Margaret McChesnie Only mention is grave inscription as above Samuel McChesnie Only mention is grave inscription as above William McChesnie Only mention is grave inscription as above Scotland’s People: Nothing 54 Inscription 264 – Ewart by Murray Johnston 55 56 Inscription 271 – McKay by Jennifer Roberts James McKay was born in either 1774 or 1775 in the Parish of Kells and died on the 2nd October at Naugahway in 1845 at the age of seventy one. He was the school master at Balmaclellan for fifty years. He married Mary Barber of Dumfries on the 28th March 1820 at Kells. They had two boys, William who died aged ten months on 30th October 1821 and Robert who was born in 1823 and died aged seventy seven in 1900. In the First Statistical Account of 1792, the Rev Thompson wrote: ‘In addition to the legal school salary of this parish amounting to about 11l Sterling or thereby, there was a few years ago a donation made of 500l by a native of this place, a Mr Murdoch late merchant of Glasgow. This fund is secured on land, which, at present, is said to yield more than 5 per cent; so that the school salary of this parish now amounts to nearly 36l. This, however, is the whole income of the master, the terms of the donation not permitting him to receive wages.’ In the Second Statistical Account of 1845 the Rev George Murray wrote of the education in Balmaclellan: ‘The parish is remarkably well supplied with schools. Three are Inscription 271 parochial, and a fourth is undertaken at the teacher’s own adventure. In the principal school, no fees are exacted. This arrangement was made in consequence of a bequest to that effect of L.500. This sum was laid out in the purchase of a small landed property, which now yields about L.70 per annum. The teacher has also the yearly allowance of one chalder,5 or L.17, 2s 2d., as well as a house and garden. The whole number of scholars in the parish at the last Presbyterial examination amounted to 218.’ James McKay is the only school master mentioned in Pigot and Co.’s Directory of 1825-6. In the 1841 census the family were recorded at living in the High Street of New Galloway. At the time of the census James at sixty-six and was still working as a school master. His son Robert is not recorded as having an occupation, despite being 18 at the time. James McKay died intestate. The inventory of his Personal Estate records him as being the school master at Balmaclellan and residing in New Galloway. He appears to have been quite a wealthy man. He had several bank accounts, one at the British Linen Company at their Castle Douglas Branch was worth £945; he also had £320 in another account at the bank and his wife Mary had an account with £400 in it. Mary’s money was regarded as part of her husband’s estate. Another account in the new Galloway branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank had £170 in it. He was owed salary from Whit-Sunday to Martinmass 1845 by the heritors of Balmaclellan Parish, that included the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Kenmure £6.3s.3d, James Murdoch of Drumwhirn 17/6 and James Barbour of Barlae £1.5s.9d. A chalder was: 1) a measure of grain equalling sixteen bolls, frequently as part of a ministers stipend; the stipend itself; 2) a variable quantity of salt, lime or coal. A boll was a dry measure of weight or capacity according to the commodity and locality, but frequently equivalent to six imperial bushels. 5 57 James McKay’s effects were valued at £2188.12s. [equivalent of £283,469.41 in 2022 values] James and Mary were also renting out the school house in Balmaclellan to several men. James Caver who owed 1/-, James [.]ouimer owed 3/-, Robert Fingland 12/- and the Kirk Session of Balmaclellan 1/-. At his death James was also owed six months rent from Kirkstyle Farm in Kirkpatrick Durham amounting to £37. James had stock, crop and implements of husbandry worth £107.13s.8d, whilst his furniture, body clothes and other effects were valued at £64.13s.6d. He also had £40 cash in the house. Several people owed him money, which the Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court thought unlikely to be paid. David McMillan in Viewfield owed £132, George Anderson formally of Little Craig owed £250, rent arrears by James Wilson for Kirkstyle Farm amounted to £386. An unsecured debt for expenditure on the Balmaclellan school house was £50. In all, including interest, James McKay’s effects were valued at £2188.12s. [equivalent of £283,469.41 in 2022 values] (Roberts 2022). His nearest kin, his son Robert (not his wife Mary), signed the document detailing his estate on 12th April 1846. Mary lived another six years, dying on 31st January 1851, at the age of sixty-four according to her memorial or sixty-six in the Parish Records. Robert remained single throughout his life. He continued living in the High Street of New Galloway, sometimes with an assistant to help in the shop. He is recorded in the 1851 Census as being a draper, grocer and distributor of stamps as well as being a farmer of sixty acres. In the 1861 and 1871 Census, he is recorded as being a grocer employing an assistant, and a farmer employing two men. By 1881 he is recorded as a general merchant. For many years he employed Elizabeth McGill as his housekeeper. Robert McKay died of a cerebral haemorrhage on the 4th December 1900 at twenty past two in the afternoon at the age of seventy seven. References: Census: 1841 Census 868/ 7/ 3 Page 3 of 21 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 (ref not given on Find My Past) Concise Scots Dictionary, 2nd Edition E.U.P 2017 Pigot and Co. New Commercial Directory 1825-6, London, 1825, page 465 Roberts, J. 2022 ‘Value of 1845 British pounds today/UK Inflation Calculator [online] available at https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1845 [accessed 4 April 2022] Scotland’s Parish Marriages and Banns 1561-1893 Statistical Account of Scotland OSA Vol. IV 1792 page 231 NSA Vol. IV 1845 page 107 Statutory Register of Death – 868/20 page 7; 868/2 page 4 Wills and Testaments Record SC16/41/14 Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court, Image 421 page 420 58 Inscription 288 – McCandlish by Thais Poyo-Gonzalez McCANDLISH, WILLIAM, of Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire, designed GLENCAIRN CHURCH, DUMFRIESSHIRE, 1836, in an elementary Gothic style enlivened by a dramatically arched north transept [S.R.O., HR 116/1]. Basic Biographical Details Name: William McCandlish Designation: Architect Born: 1779 Died: 12 December 1855 Bio Notes: William McCandlish was a native of Kirkcudbrightshire. He had a large business as a builder and joiner in New Galloway, Kells Parish as by 1851 he was employing 28 men. Colvin notes that his rather elementary Gothic church at Dalry and Glencairn is enlivened by a dramatic arch at the end wall of the transept. His wife was Janet Thomson who died in New Galloway in 1846 after a long illness. They had a number of children including James McCandlish who became an architect-builder in Kirkcudbright. His death on 12 December 1855 aged 76 is recorded on a tombstone in Kells Churchyard. Private and Business Addresses The following private or business addresses are associated with this architect: Address Type New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Private/business Greenhead, High Street, Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Private Scotland Date from Date to Before 1841 Notes After 1851 Buildings and Designs This architect was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): Date started Building name Town, district Island City or county or village 1822 Kells Parish Church New Galloway Country Notes Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland Inscription attributes this to McCandlish. 59 1830 Dalry Parish Church St John's Town of Dalry Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland 1833 Balmaclellan Church Balmaclellan Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland Alterations 1836 Glencairn Parish Church Kirkland Dumfriesshire 1841 Kenmure Castle New Galloway Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland Alterations 1846 Ballochmyle Railway Viaduct Mauchline Ayrshire Scotland Scotland References: Bibliographic References The following books contain references to this architect: Author(s) Date Title Part Publisher Colvin, H M 1995 A Biographical Dictionary of British 3rd Architects 1600-1840 edition New Haven and London: Yale University Press Colvin, Howard London: YUP. 4th edition 2008 A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 Periodical References The following periodicals contain references to this architect: Periodical Name Date Edition Publisher Notes Dumfries and Galloway Standard 18 November 1846 Archive References The following archives hold material relating to this architect: Source Archive Name Source Catalogue No. Notes Census records online Censuses 60 Notes Inscription 292 – Kennedy by Sharon Course In memory of Anna KENNEDY daughter to William KENNEDY late of Knocknalling, 1771. Here youthful bloom fair as the Morning Rose. Sleeps in the silent dust in soft repose. Great was her soul, Integrity of Life. Adorn’d the Maid and Dignified the Wife. ********* And now beyond where Stars and planets shine, She dwells in light and Love and joys divine. Suns may decay stars may lose their Light, ******** And falling Worlds sink in Eternal Night. Whilst thro Eternity She wafts her way, And basks in Beams of Everlasting Day. From the limited records available, Anna appears to be the granddaughter of William Kennedy (Snr) (DOB c1700) and his wife Margaret Blair. William inherited the farm of Knocknalling, which had been in the Kennedy family for many generations. But he also inherited large debts from his late father, which had to be paid, and he had to give his only sister Elizabeth 2000 merks as a dowry. In 1740, he sold Knocknalling to his cousin, David Kennedy, plus another family property, Knockreoch. He retained ownership of a third inherited property, Mardrochwood near Carsphairn, and was living there in 1747. William had two sons also called William. The first was born in 1730 but died in 1731. The second son was born in 1732 and was also called William, to ensure his father’s forename lived on. It is this William who was the father of Anna and had this poetic memorial created. It is difficult to know how old Anna was, as there is no record of her birth, only the date of her death. The poem, in the Romantic style, talks of her youth and how ‘Great was her soul, Integrity of Life. Adorn’d the Maid and Dignified the Wife’. This suggests she was married when she died and may have records under her married name. However, I cannot find any Anna Kennedy/similar within the timeframe. The poem seems to be an original for the headstone as it does not appear on any searches. There is a record that suggests William was also buried in Kells in 1771 but confirmation can’t be found. It is possible that 1771 refers to his death and the stone to Anna was put up later. 61 Inscription 293 – Gordon by Keith Hamblin Inscription 293 * John, along with his brother-in-law, William Gordon of Roberton, were both at Rullion Green, near Pentland, on 28th November 1666. 50 Covenanters were killed by Royalist troops (among them William). 150 Covenanters were taken prisoner. John made his escape, severely wounded. His loss of blood and his lying in the fields for some nights after the battle, so brought him down that after he got home to Largmore, he died soon afterwards, on 6th January 1667. John Gordon of Largmore was apparently buried beside his grandfather who had died 5 years earlier. ** Roger fought at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge on 22nd June 1679 and had many narrow escapes from dragoons subsequently. Roger became Laird of Largmore of the death of John (his father or uncle). *** John Gordon in Nov 1690 had sasine of Largmore. He was succeeded by John Gordon on 16th August 1695. 62 Inscription 293 - The stone shows the Gordon motto "Dread God" along with three boar heads “Pont, on his map, spells the name of thus farm Largmoir, thereby confirming it being from the Gaelic lairic or lairig, a moor, a hill and mor, big or large.” Largmore, in the Garroch Glen - Home of John Gordon (and son Roger Gordon) who only just survived the Pentland Uprising Image - DAC, “Largmore, in the Garroch Glen,” Carsphairn Archive, accessed August 19, 2022, https://www.carsphairn.org/CarsphairnArchive/items/show/3224 63 64 Inscription 308 – Millman by Jennifer Roberts Alfred McKinley Millman, born in 1849 in New Galloway, was the young son of Alfred McKinley Millman MRCSB, M.D. and Provost of New Galloway. Alfred died on the 14 th December 1855 at twelve thirty in the afternoon at Kenview in New Galloway. He had been ill for nine days with acute otitis, an infection of the middle ear which now-a-days can be treated with antibiotics. He was tended by his father, who also signed the death certificate. Mary Anne or Marianne Millman was just seven months old in the 1851 census. She lived at Rose View Cottage in New Galloway with her parents Alfred and Jane Metcalfe, her Grandmother Jane Metcalfe and elder brothers William (see below) and Alfred (see above) and sisters Mary and Emma. Their mother Jane must have been busy with five young children as the eldest Mary was only seven years old. By the time of the next census in 1861 the family had moved to Ken View, in New Galloway High Street. Jane had had another four children by then, Charlotte, Frederic Richard, Sophia and the youngest Georgina who was one. William is not mentioned as living at home. Marianne Kenmure Millman married Robert Seaton Muir a teacher at Ken View on the 27th December 1871. Marianne was twenty-one, Robert ten years her senior. She died less than a year later on the evening of the 15th November 1872 at Sinclair Terrace, Pulteneytown, Wick. Marianne died of peritonitis, a serious infection which can be treated today with antibiotics. It is possible that Marianne had a child before she died, as on the 1881 census a Fanny M. Muir aged eight was staying at Kenview with her grandparents, however the census does record that she was born in 1873. William Hockin McKinley was born on the 25th October 1842 at Arthurstown, Co. Wexford, Ireland. At some stage he emigrated to Canada West landing first at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He married Sarah Elizabeth and they had four sons, Hartley, Turville, Ontario and William. The inscription on William’s memorial at the Woodland Cemetery, London, Middlesex County, Ontario says ‘William was a travelling agent. William's head was struck by falling timbers after he had secured Ontario (8) and Turville (6) in his arms. They were brought ashore still in their father's arms.’ William was thirty-eight years old. For an account of the steamboat incident in which they died see below. Alfred McKinley Millman, the father of Alfred Junior, Mary Anne (or Marianne) and William was born on the 2nd April 1819 at Stone House, Plymouth, Devon, where his father was a clerk in the Royal Naval Hospital. His mother was called Mary. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England in 1841. He worked in Coombe Hospital in Dublin the same year and later worked at City of Dublin and Mercers Hospitals, where he became a member of the Irish Royal College of Surgeons. Whilst working in Ireland he married Jane Elizabeth Metcalfe in 1842, by marriage licence. he became the Provost of New Galloway, the Parochial Medical Officer of Balmaclellan, Dalry and Kells...worked on public vaccinations, was an Honorary Assistant Surgeon for the 3rd Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers, and...worked for the Hope Assurance Society in a medical capacity He became an M.D. in 1860 at Aberdeen University. Later he became the Provost of New Galloway, the Parochial Medical Officer of Balmaclellan, Dalry and Kells. He worked on public vaccinations, was an Honorary Assistant Surgeon for the 3rd Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers, and as well as all these duties he worked for the Hope Assurance Society in a medical capacity. Alfred died on the morning of the 19th July 1881 at Kenview of apoplexy and paralysis, the old term for a stroke. He had suffered for some hours before his death. The obituary column in the local paper mentioned 65 his death and the date and time of his funeral at Kells Churchyard. After his death Alfred left his estate to his widow Jane. The value of his estate was £817.8s.9d. After her husband's death, Jane Metcalfe went to live with her widowed daughter Emma Hawthornthwaite and grand-daughter Ada, at Seaforth in Lancashire. Emma let apartments. Jane died in early summer 1905 at the age of eighty-six. References: Census: 1841, 1851,1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 Ancestry: www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections [accessed April 2022] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146912758/william-hockin_mckinley-millman [accessed April 2022] Births, marriages and Deaths, Parish Records, Plymouth and West Devon Record Office 167/8 Civil Registration Death Index 1905, April May and June, West Derby Lancashire. Dublin Ireland Probate Record and Marriage Licence Index pages 367 & 738 Galloway News and Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser Friday 22nd July 1881 www.medicinenet.com/apoplexy/definition.htm [accessed April 2022] NHS Inform Scotland national Probate Index 1881 page 383 Statutory Registers Births Statutory Registers Marriages 868/6 Statutory Registers Deaths 868/1, 043/222, 868/15, 868/15 The Medical Directory for Scotland 1875 page 683 66 Inscription 308 – The Sinking of the Steamer Victoria on the River Thames, London, Canada West 1881 by Jennifer Roberts This account is taken from reports in the British Press at the time of the incident. On Monday three boats of the River Thames Navigation Company took excursionists down the River Thames to celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday. The four-mile voyage took the holiday makers from London to the Woodland Cemetery, then to Park Wards Dock and then on to Springbank. The company even lowered their fares to help with the celebrations. On Tuesday the steamer took an even larger number of passengers down to the groves at Springbank. The woods were crowded with people enjoying the holiday. A photograph of an artist’s impression of the steamship Victoria. It is possibly two photos superimposed upon each other. © Ivey Family London Room, London Public Library, London, Ontario, Canada At six o’clock on Tuesday May 24th, the three steamers began to take the excursionists home. The steamer Victoria was the oldest of the three boats, but that spring had undergone a refurbishment and the machinery had been repaired. It had passed its trial trip on the Monday. When the Victoria left Springbank she had around four hundred people on board. At Wards Dock, the next stop, the steamer became overcrowded and according to reports somewhat shaky. On the open deck some of the band of the 7 th Fusiliers were playing music to entertain the passengers, at an attempt to clear a space for dancing the crowd were pushed forward to the bow part of the steamer. At the next stop, at the landing place of the woodland park, another two hundred people pushed on. An eyewitness Mr Duffield said, ‘I saw that the upper deck was too full, but had the idea that the lower was in the same condition. No one could move’ As the Victoria left the landing place she had to swing out to avoid the railway bridge, about one mile from London, she heeled over, and according to Mr Duffield, as the lower deck sunk below water level, people on that side got their feet wet, so there was a rush to the other side of the steamer, Captain Rankin described how there was also a rush to climb onto the upper deck. The steamer lurched and sunk in twelve feet of water. Mr Duffield then went on to describe how the movement of people caused the boiler to shift and go through the side, cutting through the timber supports of the upper deck. This action caused the upper deck to collapse crushing the passengers underneath it wedging them in the water. Mr Duffield said, ‘I heard a great screech, a hissing sound then silence.’ 67 The steamer broke up so quickly that passengers were unable to use the life jackets and life boats. There were several small boats and skiffs in the area and they rushed to the Victoria to help rescue people. The current was swift and many people were swept away before they could be rescued. Many people drowned in family groups. Some lucky passengers were able to grab some of the wreckage. The foggy weather did not help the rescue attempts, which were somewhat chaotic. The city emptied as people rushed to the river banks and bridges in an attempt to help. Fires and petroleum barrels were lit to light the scene as darkness fell. That evening one hundred and seventy people bodies were brought ashore, another hundred were missing presumed drowned. An eye witness described the heart breaking scenes and the wails of anguish as bodies were brought ashore. Over one thousand local families were represented in the casualty list and many ‘prominent citizens’ had perished. Captain Rankin, an old Mississippi River Navigator, blamed the accident onto the behaviour of the passengers. He said at the that the passengers had rushed on, jumping in and climbing over the sides. He ordered them off, but the crowd did not leave. He said that he would not go until the extra passengers left, but still they did not leave. Later on during the trip he said that the passengers were making a lot of noise, singing and moving around, this caused him to notice a different action on the wheel, so he sent a boy to check with the engineer. The engineer said that unless the boat could be straightened she was in danger. Captain Rankin said that a couple of racing row boats came alongside and the crowds rushed to the other side to see them. The engineer sent up a message to the captain to ask the people to move as water was coming in, at that moment the water was half an arms depth. The vessel then lurched and the port bow went down, the boiler shifted and went through the side. The Captain went on to say that there were four hundred and fifty people on board, which rather contradicts his earlier statement. He said all the pumps were working. Mr George Parish the manager of the company said the accident was caused by overcrowding. By Wednesday evening two hundred and thirty eight bodies had been recovered, but it was believed that there were many others beneath the wreck of the Victoria. The Stroud Journal reported that the ‘whole town was in morning’, Image courtesy of Toronto Public Library while the Northampton Chronicle and Echo (NC&E) reported that the steamboat disaster had cast ‘a gloom over all persons in the Dominion resident in England [sic].’ The day after the accident the Common Council for London voted $2000 for a relief fund. The English Lakes Visitor reported that the whole city of London was in mourning, ‘nothing was done except funerals… clergymen and undertakers are worn out…coffins are being imported…some are unburied...burials continued until midnight.’ On the following Saturday the inquest on the bodies of the people who drowned was opened. Mr Bell engineer of the Princess Louise (one of the other company boats) gave evidence that was condemnatory of the Victoria. Samuel Beters an architect had examined the wreck and found the accident was caused by leakage and insufficient stanchions. George Parrish said that he had spent a lot of money fiting the Victoria out and although it emerged she had been sailing without a certificate, he maintained that ‘he could not charge himself with neglect or carelessness in any way.’ The jury found a number of reasons for the cause of the accident: 68 • • • • • • • the capsizing was caused by water in the hold, possibly from a snag in the river the boiler was not securely fastened, the stanchions were too slender and not properly braced the engineer was guilty of negligence in letting the boat sail with water in the hold the captain was guilty in accepting the dual role of position of captain and wheelman, so could not give sufficient attention to the management of the boat there was no proper examination of the boat she did not carry sufficient hands (a captain, engineer, fireman, two deck hands and a purser) she had no certificate At the close of the inquest Rankin and Parrish were arrested in the lobby of City Hall on a charge of manslaughter. They were committed for trial. Rankin and Parish were later released, each paying $3,000 bail. The case came before the Middlesex Grand Jury during the autumn assizes in September 1881. When the grand jury handed down its verdict on the twenty-second of September it had refused to indict either man. Rankin and Parish were freed. Amongst the dead were William Hocken McKinley Millman aged thirty-six and his two eldest sons Ontario and Turville. William was the son of Alfred McKinley MRCSB of New Galloway and his wife Jane Metcalfe. N.B. The name Parrish is spelt variously in the articles. References: National Newspaper Archive [online] [accessed April 2022] Aberdeen Evening express Tuesday 28th June 1881 Diss Express Friday 3rd June 1881 Dundee Courier friday 22nd July 1881 English Lakes Visitor Saturday 4th June 1881 Northampton Chronicle and Echo Monday 30th May 1881 Stroud Journal Saturday 28th May 1881 Victoria (Steamboat), capsized, 24 May 1881: Maritime History of the Great Lakes [accessed 10th August 2022] Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Saturday 28th May 1881 Images [online] [accessed 16th April 2022]: 1st image An artistic depiction of the "Last Trip of the Victoria", Springbank Park, London, Ontario: Ivey Family London Room Digital Collections (ourontario.ca) 2nd image Wreck of the Steamer ''Victoria'' – All Items – Digital Archive : Toronto Public Library (tpl.ca) 69 Inscription 314 – Murray by Sue Taylor 70 71 72 73 Inscription 354 – Maitland Gordon by Laura Anderson James Charles Maitland Gordon of Kenmure, born Jan 24 1850, died Nov 12 1915 James Charles Maitland Gordon was baptised on the 14th of February in 1850, his mother was noted as Louisa Bellamy and his father as James Maitland. Their residence was noted as Carpshairn. In the 1861 census, James C Maitland was 11 years old and resided away from his parents with a Mary J Compton and Helen L Compton who were teachers residing at Talbot Place in St Cuthberts, Newington. His parents were married on the 7th of September 1837 in the parish of Kells. The 1881 census shows James C Maitland aged 31 living with his grandmother, Louise Gordon Bellamy Munro. His mother is noted as a landed proprietress and as a widow. Also in the house is Harriet F Copland, the daughter of Louisa who was 61, also a widow and who was born at sea. James was joined by two of his siblings: his elder brother John G Maitland who was married, aged 42 and was a Colonel of Volunteers, and his elder sister Louisa Maitland who was 33. Also noted in the household as a visitor was Dora Williamson, James C Maitland’s future wife. James C Maitland and Dora Wordsworth Williamson were married in 1892 within Wandsworth, London. James identified himself as a landed proprietor who was living at Kenmure Castle. After his wife passed in 1903, James may have married again to either a Florence Broomfield or Dorothy Trenna Curwen in Marylebone London in 1905. James identified himself as a landed proprietor who was living at Kenmure Castle. James Charles Maitland Gordon passed aged 65 in Richmond, Surrey. Also at Kells graveyard is the Gravestone of James’s elder brother, erected by his wife Jane G. Maitland. The gravestone notes that John and therefore James was the “son of Louisa Maitland Gordon of Kenmure by her marriage with the Rev. James Maitland. Minister of Kells”. 74 Inscription 355 – Maitland by Sandra Williamson NORVEL FALCONER MAITLAND Born 8th September 1851 Baptised 2nd October 1851 at Kells Died 13th December 1916 aged 65. Norvel’s father was Rev. James Mailtand of Kells Parish Church. His mother was Louisa Bellamy Maitland born in the East Indies (British subject) Norvel was a brother to 7 siblings: John, Louisa, Frances, Eleanor, Jane, James and Louis. Norvel married Manuela Louisa Gadino (daughter of the Captain of the Peruvian Navy) in the town of Iquique in Northern Chile in 1886. Norvel married Manuela Louisa Gadino (daughter of the Captain of the Peruvian Navy) in the town of Iquique in Northern Chile in 1886. Gravestone of Norvel Falconer Maitland Their first child Mary Louise was born in 1892 in Kenmure Castle, Kells. Thereafter the rest of their children were born in Chile. Their son William Kenmure Maitland was born in 1896 was a second Lieutenant 5th Battalion Middlesex Reg attached to the 63rd Trench Mortary Battery at the age of 20. He was commissioned in the 5th Middlesex in February 1915 and went to France in July 1915. 75 Inscription 361 – Nodwell by Jackie Carson From the grave inscription: Died Yorkhill 19th Nov 1918 aged 24 (born 1894?) Father Samuel Nodwell died New Galloway 5th March 1921 aged 57 (born 1864?) Mother Janet Lockerbie died Dalbeattie 21st May 1931 aged 67 (born 1864?) Mary Lockerbie died Hardgate 17th Dec 1955 aged 63 (born 1892?) National Library of Scotland: Jane Lauder – nothing Jane Nodwell – 1901 census record, born in Hawick, listed as scholar living in Black Bull hotel in Moffat with: Father Samuel born 1864 (hotel keeper and post master) Mother Janet born 1864 Mary born 1892 James born 1897 Janet born 1898 3 others Samuel Nodwell – Grave 361 inscription Janet Lockerbie – Mother Mary Lowther and father John Lockerbie. Death record with grave 361 inscription Found a Janet Lockerbie in 1871 census in Southwick Road, Urr, Dalbeattie aged 2 (Mother Margaret). Birth date listed as 1869. Mary Lockerbie Scotland’s People: Jane Lauder Nodwell 1911 census living in Kells – age 17 Birth record Hawick 1894 Samuel Nodwell 1911 census living in Kells – age 47 1901 census in Moffat – age 37 1891 census in Roxburgh – age 27 Valuation rolls: 1905 Black bull hotel Moffat 1895 Washing Houses/ Spirit Shop Hawick Wills and Testaments: Spirit Merchant, Cross Keys Hotel, New Galloway6 Janet Lockerbie (as Nodwell) 1911 census living in Kells - age 47 Other (Google): Jane Lauder Nodwell New Galloway war memorial Dumfries Academy war memorial 6 Dumfries Academy Memorial, Column 1 https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/273925/ https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/recordresults?search_type=People&surname=Nodwell&forename=Samuel&forename_so=starts&from_year=1864&to_yea r=1922&surname_so=exact&record_type=wills_testaments 76 Find a grave: Died of influenza at Yorkhill war hospital. Father listed as Samuel Nodwell of Cross Keys Hotel, New Galloway. Copy of death notification from Dumfries and Galloway Standard The Scottish Military Research Group: lots of discussion regarding her position as a VAD and commemoration Listed in Lives of the first world war and Memorials to Women in Scotland Voluntary Aid Detachment New Galloway Memorial, Image 4 http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=725 Death Notification in D and G Standard https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71197610/jane-lauder-nodwell 77 Inscription 410 – Robertson by Claire Williamson In Loving Memory of Jessie Agnes Robertson died 15th Feb 1936. Cecil David Robertson, Sergt. RAF VR missing 5th May 1941. Agnes Robertson died 30th March 1946. Agnes Robertson 1868 – 1946 Jessie Agnes Robertson 1897 – 1936 Cecil David Robertson 1921 – 1941 Agnes Robertson Agnes was born in 1868 in Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire to her parents, farm-worker William and his wife Agnes. By the time of the 1891 census, our Agnes had moved out and was now living by herself at No. 1 Auchengassel Cots in Twynholm. She was 23, unmarried, and her own boss working as a Dressmaker. In 1897 Agnes gave birth to her daughter, Jessie Agnes Robertson. Jessie’s father was never named and Agnes never married. Agnes was 23, unmarried, and her own boss working as a Dressmaker. By the 1901 census Agnes, now aged 33, and her daughter, now 4, had moved in with her brother James and his family at at Balquhairn, Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire. Her brother James is a widower and Farm manager, aged 36, living with his four children – James (scholar aged 8), William D. (scholar aged 7), May A. (aged 2) and Maggie J. (aged 1) – and was probably glad of the help. Also in the household was Agnes’s and James’s mother, Mrs William Robertson, by this time a widow aged 72. There were also two servants: Elizabeth and Oswald Ferguson. Elizabeth is 19 and recorded as a ‘General serv (domestic)’ and Oswald is 17 and a ‘Worker’. By 1911, Agnes had moved again. This time living in Clydoch, Balmaclellan: a house with at least four rooms. She is living there with her 14-year-old daughter Jessie and also her niece, Maggie J. Robertson, aged 11, who must have moved out of her father’s house to live with her. Agnes is also back to working for herself as a Dressmaker based in her own home. By 1921, Agnes and her daughter had moved to live on the High Street in New Galloway which is where they chose to live out the rest of their days. Agnes died at home in New Galloway on the 30th March 1946 (the recorded transcription has it as 1948, which appears to be an error). She died of Hemiplegia, which is the paralysis of half of the body often caused by a stroke. She was recorded as being 75 years old on her death certificate, but this does not quite match with her birth year as being 1868 (as it is recorded on the census), which would make her a few years older. Her death was registered by her niece Maggie. Jessie Agnes Robertson Jessie was born in 1897 in Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire and lived with her mother Agnes in Dalry and Balmaclellan before they settled in New Galloway. 78 Jessie gave birth to her son Cecil in 1921 at their home on the High Street. She never married and Cecil’s father is not named on the records. Jessie worked as a PostOffice Assistant and raised Cecil alongside her mum (Cecil’s gran) Agnes. Jessie's signature on Cecil's birth certificate Jessie continued to work as a Post-Office Assistant until she died on 15th February 1936, aged 39. She died of pneumonia while at home in New Galloway. Cecil David Robertson Cecil was born on 10th June 1921 at 5:15am to Jessie Agnes Robertson at home on the High Street in New Galloway. His father is not named on his birth certificate. Cecil first attended New Galloway School and then went on to Kirkcudbright Academy. While at Kirkcudbright, Cecil seems to have come 3rd in the William Lidderdale Hornel prize, as reported by the Dumfries and Galloway Standard on Wednesday 5th July 1939. According to The Galloway News on Saturday 1st July 1939, he also won sports’ prizes including the “Trophy Caps for Rugby Football”, the “Inter-house championship” for Stewart House and “The M’Kerrow Cup for All-round Excellence” (scholarship, leadership, athletics). Photograph of Cecil Robertson, bottom row, second from the right – many thanks to Helen of the Kirkcudbright History Society and David and Hazel from Broughton House for finding this image In 1940, Cecil joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he was noted as “very popular with all the ranks” and quickly earned promotion to the rank of Sergeant Observer (Service Number: 970095). 79 By May 1941, Cecil was in the 235 Squadron, which by that time had been transferred to Coastal Command for fighter-reconnaissance duties. At 8:30am on the 5th of May 1941, Cecil joined two other crew members, Sgt B.L.T. Crawforth (742675) and Sgt W.K. Blackford (944341), as they took off from Bircham Newton for a ‘Danish Sweep’. They were flying a Blenheim IV Z5742 and were one of a section of three aircraft on patrol near the Danish coast. The three aircraft became engaged with enemy fighters off Borkum before the other two aircraft lost sight of Robertson’s plane. Robertson was reported as missing to his grandmother, Agnes, who lived on the High Street in New Galloway at the time. At 8:30am on the 5th of May 1941, Cecil joined two other crew members...as they took off from Bircham Newton for a ‘Danish Sweep’. The aircraft had been shot down by Me 110s and crashed in the sea off the coast of Denmark. In June 1941, Mrs Robertson received a letter from Cecil’s commanding officer that, according to the International Red Cross Society quoting official information from Berlin, Cecil had been picked up seriously wounded in the North Sea. He did not recover from his wounds and died on the 5th of May 1941 at the age of 19. He was buried in the cemetery at Wilhelmshaven, and he was recorded as the son of Jessie Agnes Robertson and the nephew of Maggie Jane Livingston of Barrhead, Renfrewshire: his mother’s cousin who lived with them in 1911 at Balmaclellan and who must have remained close. Today, Cecil rests in the Sage War Cemetery (Location: 8. A. 3) in the north of Germany. The cemetery is cared for by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Sage War Cemetery 80 Inscription 436 – Kennedy by Michelle MacIver In Memory of John Murray Kennedy of Knocknalling born 5th April 1876 fell asleep 24th March 1928. John Murray Kennedy was the grandson of John Kennedy of Knocknalling (1769-1855) (see picture below), who made his fortune in cotton mills in Manchester and introduced steam power into the mills.7 John Kennedy of Knocknalling 7 For further information on John Kennedy of Knocknalling see Inscriptions 209 & 210 and links: https://www.artwarefineart.com/gallery/portrait-john-kennedy-laird-knocknalling-new-galloway-1769-1855-textilemanufacturer and http://www.kirkcudbright.co/historyarticle.asp?ID=154&p=7&g=4 81 Inscription 437 – Kennedy by Michelle MacIver In Memory of Violet Frances, Daughter of John Murray Kennedy of Knocknalling, beloved wife of Archibald James Murray St Clair, 16th Baron Sinclair, born 21st September 1881 died 7th November 1953 Violet Frances Kennedy was born to John Murray Kennedy and Frances Eleanor Catherine Brandling Kennedy on 21st September 1881. Her address was listed as 35 Grosvenor Place in London. She was 24 years old. Violet married Archibald James Murray St Clair at St Peter’s, Pimlico in London on 31st January 1906. Archibald was a baron and Violet became Lady Violet St Clair. She appears in the 1918 Electoral register for Queens Gate, Kensington, London. Her name appears, alongside that of her husband, on the incoming passenger list for the Majestic, a White Star line boat that left New York and arrived in Southampton on 10 th August 1928. Her address is listed as Milton Park, Dalry Kirk. According to the Kirkcudbrightshire OS name book, the Milton Park property belonged to her father. Violet died in 7th November 1953 in Kirkcudbrightshire. Inscription 438 – St Clair by Michelle MacIver In Memory of Archibald James Murray St Clair, 16th Baron Sinclair born 18th February 1875 died 25th November 1957 Archibald James Murray St Clair was born to Lord Charles W St Clair and Lady Margaret J St Clair on the 18th February 1875. Listed on the 1881 census, aged 6, as “The Master of Sinclair”, living in Onslow Square, St Mary Abbots, Chelsea, London. He commissioned in the Royal Scots Greys as a 2nd lieutenant in 1896. He became lieutenant in 1899 and Captain in 1901. He served in both the Boer war and WW1. From 1914 to 1938, he served as Extra Equerry (a position of honour) to Prince Arthur of Connaught, the Colonel in chief of the Scots Greys. From 1923 to 1957 he was a member of the Royal Company of Archers (performing duties at the request of the Monarch and in ceremonial occasions). The photo below shows him in 1898 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Scots Greys. In 1918 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Victorian Order and around 1919 he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. In the 1911 census, he was recorded as residing with his wife in Yorkshire, East Riding. No children after 5 years of marriage. Archibald James Murray St Clair He became the 16th Baron Lord Sinclair on 22nd April 1922. He was Justice of the Peace in Kirkcudbrightshire. 82 Listed as an outward passenger, (Sinclair) with his wife in 1938 heading for Port Said. Address is listed as 26 Curzon Street. His daughter Patricia Mary St Clair and a servant (who travelled 2nd class) are also listed. In 1918 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Victorian Order and around 1919 he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. He died on 25th November 1957 and was succeeded by his son Charles (born 21st June 1914: died 1st April 2004) and daughter Patricia (Born 17th March 1912: Died 13th December 1996). Medal roll Card for Capt. A J M St Clair Marriage Certificate of A J M St Clair and Violet Frances Kennedy 83 Inscription 464 – Stokes by Thais Poyo-Gonzalez 1860-1931 Alfred Stokes Alfred was born on 14 October 1860, the son of John Stokes and Henrietta de Villiers Maynard, in Galatz, Roumania. He became a British Subject, and was a career Army Officer, rising to the rank of Brigadier General. 1868-1957 Margaret Dunbar Laing Margaret was born on 9 January 1868, the daughter of James Laing and Theresa Talbot Peacock, at Sunderland, County Durham. When Margaret Dunbar Laing was born on 9 January 1868, in Bishopwearmouth, Durham, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Laing, was 45 and her mother, Theresa Talbot Peacock, was 36. She married Alfred Stokes on 11 August 1891, in Ford, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. Marriage 1891 Alfred Stokes Margaret Dunbar Laing 1901 Census Ford, Northumberland RG13-564 1891 3Q Glendale 10b 619 1 April 1901 Woolwich, London 59 Woolwich Common Alfred Stokes Margaret D. (Wife) Letitia E. Cameron (Visitor) Plus 2 Servants Age 30 Major in Army Age 23 Age 36 Galatz Sunderland Durham Roumania Durham East Indies 14 Oct 1860 9 Jan 1868 abt 1864 She lived in Ford, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom in 1891. She died on 12 September 1957, in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 89. Not identified any children. STOKES, ALFRED, Major, was born 14 October 1860, son of Lieutenant General Sir John Stokes, KCB, of Ewell, Surrey, and Henrietta Georgina de Villiers (who died in 1893), second daughter of Charles Maynard, of Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope. He was educated at Cheltenham, and joined the Royal Artillery, as a Lieutenant, 18 February 1880, serving in South Africa in 1881; in the Bechuanaland Expedition 23 December 1884 to 12 March 1885, and was honourably mentioned in Despatches. He became Captain 25 April 1888, and Major 25 December 1897. Major Stokes served in the South African War from 1899 to 1900; was present at the Relief of Ladysmith, including the operations of 17 to 24 January 1900, and action of Spion Kop; operations of 5 to 7 February 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights 14 to 27 February 1900, and action at Pieter's Hill; operations in the Transvaal, May and June 1900; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 November 1900; operations in Cape Colony, north of Orange River, including action at Ruidam. 84 He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 February 1901]; received the Queen's Medal with five clasps, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 19 April 1901]: "Alfred Stokes, Major, Royal Artillery. In recognition of services during the recent operations in South Africa". The Insignia were presented by the King 3 June 1901. He became Lieutenant Colonel 14 November 1905; was given the Brevet of Colonel 14 November 1908, and was promoted to Colonel 14 November 1910. Colonel Stokes was Temporary Brigadier General, commanding Royal Artillery in India, from 22 December 1911, and served in the European War from 1914; was mentioned in Despatches, and created a CB in 1915, and a CMG in 1916. He retired from the Staff 2 September 1918, with the rank of Brigadier General. Brigadier General Stokes married, in 1891, Margaret Dunbar, daughter of Sir James Laing, of Etal Manor, Northumberland. Source: DSO recipients (VC and DSO Book) 85 Inscription 482 – McLeod by Pat Swiatek 86 Inscription 482 located within Kells Church Examples of Travel Documentation: 87 88 Inscription 484 – Maitland by Keith Hamblin Inscription 484 - erected inside Kells church at first floor height, in perfect condition External memorial (No. 17) to John and Jane Gordon Maitland Showing position of Inscription 484 above first floor pews 89 From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Maitland_(minister): H.M. 38th Foot: It is likely that John Gordon Maitland served with them during the expedition against the Black Mountain tribes in 1868 prior to taking up command of the Galloway Rifles in 1871. 90 Information on the background of the Galloway Rifles including the uniform format at the time of John Gordon Maitland. He was Colonel commanding between 1871 and 1887: 91 Inscriptions x 18 – Johnston / Johnstone by Murray Johnston 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 Index Corson, 51 Aitchison, 45, 48, 49 Covenanters, 55, 62-64 Alexander, 96, 97 Battle of Bothwell Bridge, 62-64 Battle of Rullion Green, 62-64 Anderson, 96 Australia, 42 Cowan, 36, 49 Barber, 57 Craig, 36, 48 Barbour, 26 Crawford, 39 Barclay, 24 Crimean War Scots Guards, 43 Sebastopol, 43 Barker, 38, 39 Bateson, 6–15, 39 Crosbie, 43 Best, 8, 12 Crowther, 38 Bengal, 38, 50 Davies, 90 Bellamy, 90 Dickie, 87 Biggar, 93 Douglas, 5, 34, 36, 43, 45, 46 Blair, 61 Duae, 62 Boer War Dunn, 94 Manchester Regiment, 21 Royal Artillery, 85 Royal Scots Greys, 82 Egremont, 6, 37, 38, 39 Ewart, 46, 55-56 Broadfoot, 87 Ferguson, 78 Brown, 24, 32-33, 55, 86, 96 Foley, 5 Byers, 33 France, 17 Campbell, 30, 34, 35, 36, 52 Galloway Rifles, 39, 89, 90, 91 Canada Galloway Royal Volunteers, 32 Manitoba, 31 Nova Scotia, 65 Ontario, 65, 67 Ottawa, 19 Quebec, 19 Gillespie, 46, 47, 70-71, 72 Gordon, 7, 25, 29, 34, 49, 62-64, 70-71, 74, 89, 90, 91 Graveyards (in Dumfries & Galloway) Cannan, 55 Balmaclellan, 46, 47, 48 Carruthers, 48 Greenwell, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 49 Greggan, 43-44 Chapman, 52 Grierson, 55 Chile, 75, 86 Griggan, 43 China, 46 Hairstones, 5 Connan, 27 Hall, 29, 38, 49, 69 Copland, 74 Hamilton, 90 Corps of Royal Engineers, 40 Harding, 8 99 Hastings, 5 Logie, 32 Hawthornthwaite, 66 Lorimer, 87 Heatherington, 38 Lowther, 76 Herese, 51 Lumsden, 47, 48 Hewitson, 34-35 Lyall, 16 th H.M. 30 Foot, 89 MacGowan/McGowan, 70, 72, 73, 87 Hoatson, 34 Madras Native Infantry, 89 Hobbs, 40-42, 45 Maitland, 7, 29, 39, 40-42, 74, 75, 89-91 Hollins, 47 Manson, 45 Hope, 24, 26, 36, 46, 47 Martin, 92, 93, 95 Huckans/Higgins, 8, 9 Maxwell, 21-23 Hunter, 27 Maynard, 84 Hyslop, 24-25, 46 McBurny, 51 India, 26, 38, 39, 41, 42, 45, 49, 85 McCandlish, 49, 59-60 Indian Rebellion of 1857 McChesnie, 54 Bengal Native Infantry, 38 Fort Tirowlee, 38 Madras Regiment, 39 McCheyne, 30-31 McCubbin, 27 Ireland, 65, 66 McCubbing, 27-28 Jamaica, 24, 45, 96 McCulloch, 36 Jardine, 54 McGarvah, 32 Johnston, 16, 40, 47, 92-98 McGill, 58, 94 Johnstone, 92-98 McIver, 86 Keir, 7 McKay, 57-58 Kennedy, 24-25, 47, 49, 52-53, 61, 81, 82 McKinley, 26, 65, 69 Kerr, 86, 87 McLachlan, 43-44 McLeod, 86-88 Kidd, 27 McMillan, 5, 25, 34 Laidler, 8 McMinnies, 94 Laing, 84, 85 McNairn, 27-28 Landsburgh, 24 McNaughton/McNaught, 86, 93 Laws, 9 McTurk, 94 Laurie, 28 McQueen, 27-28 Lee, 6, 7, 14, 37-39 Medals/Honours Livingston, 80 Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, 85 Lockerbie, 76 100 Craigdews, 32 Cross Keys Hotel, 76, 77 Culmark, 34 Dalnotry, 32 Drumbain, 34 Dundeugh, 27 Garverie, 62 Glenlee, 24, 43, 46 Glenlee Park 7, 38 Glenlee Mains, 24 Glenlochar House, 6 Glenlochar Lodge, 7, 38 Graymarestail, 32 Greenhead, 59 Halfmark, 96 Hawkshead, 26 Kells Manse, 16 Kenbank, 24 Kenmure, 7, 29, 39, 49, 60, 70-73, 74, 75, 89, 90 Kenview, 65, 66 Kilquhanity Cottage, 30 Knockknalling, 24 Knocknaling, 52 Knocknalling, 52, 61, 81, 82 Largmore, 62, 63 Little Marwhirn, 94 Manse of Balmaclellan, 46 Manse of Kells, 27, 35 Mardrochwood, 61 Meadowbank, 40, 41, 45, 48, 49 Mill House, New Galloway, 92, 93 Milton Park, 82 Mulloch, 55 Naugahway, 57 Nether Fenton, 95 Old Glenlee, 43 Overton, 7, 37, 38, 39 Porters Lodge, 43 Ringour, 26 Rose View Cottage, 65 Spalding Arms Inn, 41 Stranfasket, 95, 96, 97 Summerhill House, 94 Troquain, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 Wylies Brae, 28 Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 83 Legion d'Honneur, 19, 87 Military Medal, 34 Order of the British Empire, 19 Queen's Medal, 85 Royal Victorian Order, 83 Territorial Decoration, 47 Metcalfe, 65, 66, 69 Middleton, 34 Milligan, 95, 98 Millman, 26, 65-66, 69 Mitchell, 93 Morocco, 86 Muir, 36, 65 Mulholland, 30 Murdoch, 57 Murray, 16, 26, 32-33, 40, 45-49, 53, 57, 7073 New Zealand Wellington, 35 Nicholson, 26 Nodwell, 76-77 Norval, 90 Palmer, 8 Paterson, 36 Peacock, 84 Philip, 16-20, 35 Place-Names (in Dumfries & Galloway) Ashburn Cottage, 25 Auchengassel, 78 Balmaclellan Manse, 46 Balmclellan school house, 58 Balquhairn, 78 Barsheoch Mains, 27 Barskeoch, 35 Black Bull Hotel, 76 Boat of Rhone, 26 Burnfoot, 7 Bush, 96, 98 Cairn Edward, 6, 7, 37, 39 Proudfoot, 24, 95 Reilly, 50 Republic of Vanuatu Clydoch, 78 Havanna Harbour, 39 101 Rerrick Poltergeist, 55 United States of America Ritchie, 42, 87 Illinois, 5 Louisiana, 5 Missouri, 5 New York, 41, 45 South Carolina, 49 Vermont, 34, 35 Robertson, 78-80 Roe, 54 Royal Artillery, 50, 84 Royal Horse Artillery, 32 Vicksburg (ship), 46 Sayer, 17 Watson, 34 Scotch Express Disaster, 21 Williamson, 21, 29, 74 Scots Fusilier Guards, 44 Willis, 8 Scott, 86, 87 World War I Shenan, 93 Battle of Langmarck, 47 Battle of the Lys, 34 Battle of the Somme, 28 Cameron Highlanders, 28, 30, 31 Flanders, 34 HMS Narborough, 31 Indian Regiments, 16 Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 35 Middlesex Regiment, 75 Royal Artillery, 85 Royal Scots Greys, 82 Scottish Borderers, 31, 47 Vermelles, 30 War Correspondent, 17-18 Yorkhill war hospital, 77 Ypres, 34 Simpson, 95 Sinclair, 24, 25, 65, 82, 83 Steamer Victoria, 67-69 St Clair, 82-83 Stanley, 29 Stewart, 28, 46, 47, 48, 79 Stokes, 84-85 Strawn, 5 Thompson, 34, 57 Thomson, 5, 59 Tunisia, 86 World War II Danish coast, 80 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 79 War Correspondent, 18-19 End of document 102  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grave Encounters at Kells – Results Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GGLP_101 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource GGLP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource GCAT Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Description An account of the resource The Grave Encounters project recruited volunteers to undertake research into the memorial inscriptions at Kells graveyard in New Galloway. GGLP graveyards