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Displaying 161 - 170 of 1885 itemsBiography: Robert H. McEwen
… Obituary from TDGNHAS, Series III, Vol. XC, p.150 Bob McEwen, who died in November 2016 after a … 1986 he became Secretary to the Ann Hill Research Bequest Committee which was set up to investigate the history and … Never was an honour more richly deserved. Bob had been a welcome assistant at various excavations carried out by Lionel …
… and Galloway. We are in the fortunate position of having a coastline with a variety of habitats from rocky … average count per beach of twenty to thirty species which, compared to the Ayrshire coast with only thirty species … Tower shell, popular with children, the Pelican foot shell, Common and Red Whelks. Mud snails abound in great numbers …
… Eliza Smith and the New Abbey Refugees . Stuart came to live in the Manse House at New Abbey and, whilst looking through the graveyard, he saw a large gravestone for Captain James Murray, who was the illegitimate …
Meeting: Mary Timney, The Road to the Gallows, the story of Scotland's last public execution of a woman
… storyteller. The speaker, using only the power of her voice to create eerie atmosphere, told one of the best ghost … book, 'Mary Timney, The Road To The Gallows', which is recommended reading to anyone wishing to learn more of the details of this case, which has become embedded into local folklore. … Jayne Baldwin … Mary …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series III, Volume 80
… Wildfowl on the Inner Solway Firth by John Young 1 Excavations of a Bronze Age Roundhouse and Associated Palisade … and Galloway by Martin Cook 9 The South West Crannog Survey: Recent Work on the Lake Dwellings of Dumfries and Galloway by Jon Henderson, Graeme Cavers and Anne Crone 29 Historia Brittonum and Arthur’s …
Biography: David Cunningham, M.A.
… Obituary from TDGNHAS , Series III, Vol. LXVII, p.93 We regret to have to record the death of David Cunningham, the senior …
Volume: TDGNHAS Series III, Volume 44
… Fife, Scotland Author: Maitland, P.S. 16 Echo Sounding Observations on the Lochmaben Vendace, Coregonus Vandesius … W.A.F. Balfour-Browne Author: Council, The 226 Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles - National Museum of Antiquities … Illustrated Guide to Newgrange. C.O'Kelly: John English & Company, Wexford. A Review Author: Truckell, A.E. 228 North …
Biography: Andrew Archibald
… Obituary from TDGNHAS , Series III, Vol. LXXXI, p.128 When in 1970 DGNHAS found itself in need … late James Robertson, asked a recently retired friend with commercial and financial experience to take on the job. … the service of Shell Oil and in 1947 he was appointed area commercial representative at Castle Douglas, where he …
TDGNHAS Card: 3089-4
… The claim that there was a pre-reformation parish of Irving, which took its name from the local family and was … be ‘a myth’ by Adamson in 2010. This article lists extensive relevant evidence pertaining to the parishes of Irving … and also why Kirkpatrick Fleming was so named. It becomes clear that all the contemporary evidence points …