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I. Cochrane-Dyet

The Old Coach Road from Dumfries to Edinburgh [Lecture to the Society, 4th March 2005]

Recent, Recent (Social)

TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 192(4.05 MB)

Abstract

Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on the occasion Members' Night 4th March 2005.
The Dumfriesshire part of the route of the old coach road through Tinwald, Lochmaben, Beattock and Moffat to the county boundary was described in considerable de

Alan Pallister with Alex Anderson

The Old Edinburgh Road at Barscobe and Balmaclellan

Recent, Transport History (Roads)

TDGNHAS Series III, 86 (2012), 209(4.08 MB)

Abstract

In a recent paper by the second author, the ‘Old Edinburgh Road’ was indicated as following a route between Barscobe and Balmaclellan, following the present access road from Barscobe Castle to the present A712 and thence on to Balmaclellan. Since then, an assessment by the first author calls for this section to be revised. Further research makes it clear that this should be replaced by a more direct and anciently established route between the two places.

Alex Anderson

The ‘Old Edinburgh Road’ in Dumfriesshire and Galloway

Recent, History

TDGNHAS Series III, 84 (2010), 101(3.44 MB)

Abstract

The ‘Old Edinburgh Road’ marked on Ordnance Survey maps of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright forms part of a route of great antiquity. A brief summary of its history before the turnpike era was given by the writer in a previous paper.2 The following notes are intended as an amplification of this and its extensions into Dumfriesshire and Wigtownshire, based on observations made in the intervening forty years.

C. Nicolson

The Ordeal of Patrick McMaster: A Galloway Merchant in the American Revolution

Recent, Recent (Social), Genealogy, History

TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 99(2.95 MB)

Abstract

Patrick McMaster was born on March 19, 1741, at Currochtrie in Kirkmaiden parish. This article describes the various vissisitudes that befell him while in business in Colonial Boston at the time of the American War of Independence. The article aims to con