D. Devereux
The Lochenkit Moor Covenanters – a Newly Discovered Account of a ‘Killing Times’ Incident
Recent, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 229(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB)
Abstract
The killing of four Covenanters by Crown forces on Lochenkit Moor near present-day Crocketford in Kirkcudbrightshire in early 1685 was one of the most notorious events of the ‘Killing Times’. Today, a walled enclosure protects the site of their grave and an impressive obelisk nearby records the circumstances of their killing2. However, an account of the incident has been recently discovered in a manuscript book held in the Stewartry Museum in Kirkcudbright, which, if accurate, offers an alternative interpretation of the event.
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T.D. Stephens
The Birtwhistles of Galloway and Craven: Drovers, Industrialists, Writers and Spies
Agriculture, Recent (Literature & Art), Industrial Archaeology, History, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 151(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB)
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F. Wilkins
Smuggling and Kirkcudbright Merchant Companies in the Eighteenth Century
History
TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 105(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB)
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J. Brann, N. Coombey and G. Stell
Glenstocken, Gutcher’s Isle, Colvend
Post-mediaeval archaeology, History, Architecture, Cartography
TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 91(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB)
Abstract
This article illuminates the history of a rare survival of a 17th century farmstead, variously known as ‘Glenstocken’, ‘Glenstocking’, and ‘Nether town of Glenstocking’, on the coast near Colvend and describes a project to consolidate the structure. The scheme was implemented by the National Scenic Area (NSA) project on behalf of the partners (Scottish Natural Heritage, Dumfries and Galloway Council and the East Stewartry Coast NSA Advisory Group).
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R.D. Oram
A Note on the Dating of Barhobble Chapel Bones and the Historical Context of their Deposition
Mediaeval, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 51(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB)
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A. Breeze
Rosnat, Whithorn and Cornwall
Early Mediaeval, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 83 (2009), 43(WARNING large file size: 5.11 MB)
Abstract
For nearly four hundred years, historians have been perplexed by the location of ‘Rosnat’, a British monastery and house of studies mentioned in the lives of various Irish saints. It was long taken as Whithorn in Galloway, and this is still argued, as we shall see. However, what follows discusses the problem and then (on the basis of new evidence) suggests that the place was Old Kea in Cornwall, on a tidal creek between Truro and Falmouth. If so, it allows us to identify (somewhat unexpectedly) a home of Celtic learning and spirituality that for centuries enjoyed international fame, was the intellectual centre of Cornish or south-western Christianity in the sixth century, and has implications for our understanding of religion in early Scotland, as elsewhere in Britain and Ireland. The present paper may here seem ungracious in trying to show that a home of early learning was not at Whithorn. But, being published in Dumfries and Galloway, it perhaps suggests that, if there was not much learning there in the sixth century, there is a great deal in the twenty-first.
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R.C. Reid
The Border Grahams, their Origin and Distribution
Genealogy, Recent, Mediaeval, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 38 (1959-60), 85(WARNING very large file size: 44.37 MB)
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N. Coombey
The History of Cally Designed Landscape
Proceedings, Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), History, Agriculture
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 160(2.63 MB)
Abstract
A presentation which revealed how the Murray family developed their parks and pleasure grounds at Cally, Gatehouse of Fleet. Although the designed landscape is now largely hidden by forestry planting many historical features are still recognisable and hel
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T.D. Stephens
The Birtwhistles of Galloway and North Yorkshire: Drovers, Industrialists, Poets and Spies
Proceedings, Recent, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 160(2.63 MB)
Abstract
Lecture in Kirkcudbright Town Hall The speaker showed how records from some dozen English and Scottish archives had enabled a picture to be built of the lives of three generations of the Birtwhistle family, possibly the greatest drovers and graziers of th
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D. Patrick
Union of the Parliaments 1707-2007
Proceedings, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 156(2.63 MB)
Abstract
Since the 1960s the historiography of the Union has been dominated by those historians who believe it was achieved by means of corruption, English threats and the venality of Scots MPs, and on the other hand, those who have concentrated on Scotland’s de
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D. Devereux
Favourites from the Stewartry Museum
Proceedings, Museums, History, Recent (Literature & Art), Recent (Social)
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 156(2.63 MB)
Abstract
In an illustrated lecture, the retiring President, David Devereux, Museums Curator for the Stewartry in Dumfries and Galloway Museums Service, presented a wide variety of archaeological and local historical artefacts, fine and decorative art, photographs,
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W. Holland
Francis John Stewart, LLB, WS
Obituary, History, Parish History, Recent, Recent (Social)
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 153(2.63 MB)
Abstract
Obituary of Frank Stewart a Life Member of the Society - he contributed a numner of articles to the Transactions on the history of the New Abbey area.
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J.H.D. Gair
Duncan Adamson, MA 1936-2007
Obituary, History, Recent (Social), Recent
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 152(2.63 MB)
Abstract
Obituary of Duncan Adamson a former President of the Society - he contributed a significant number of articles to the Transactions on various aspects of the history of the Dumfries and Galloway area. He acted as historian to the Anne Hill Committee.
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A. Gair
We Will Remember Them: Kirkcudbright's Sons (1939-1945) by Ian Devlin
Review, Recent, Recent (Social), History, Parish History
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 150(2.63 MB)
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N. Coombey
The Development of Cally Designed Landscape
Geography, Agriculture, Botany, Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), History, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 95(2.63 MB)
Abstract
This report has arisen from the production of a management plan for Cally designed landscape for the Gatehouse Development Initiative in 2007. That plan is a practical tool to inform management and maintenance of the landscape and interpretation and enjoy
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A. E. MacRobert
The Statistical Accounts
Recent, Recent (Social), History, Antiquarian
TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 83(2.63 MB)
Abstract
This article explores the distinctive features of the Accounts for the shires of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Wigtown and the changes revealed in the lives of the people and their environments between the First and Second and between the Second and Third A
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J. Copland
Action at Sea
Proceedings, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 139(2.95 MB)
Abstract
Detailed lecture into sailing and navigation within the Solway.
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M. Service
Hannahfield and the War Department Connection
Proceedings, Recent, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 138(2.95 MB)
Abstract
An illustrated talk on the Dumfries Hannahfield estate c.1829-1928 was given by a local military enthusiast who, having discovered by chance two War Department Boundary Stones near the Kingholm completed some months of on site investigations and research
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M.M. Stewart
The 1745 Rebellion and the Southern Scottish Lowlands by A E MacRobert (A Review)
Review, Recent, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 125(2.95 MB)
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D. Devereux
E A Hornel and Kirkcudbright
Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), History, Parish History, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 115(2.95 MB)
Abstract
This paper is based on the script of a lecture entitled ‘E A Hornel Citizen of Kirkcudbright’ presented by the author as a contribution to a study day arranged by the National Trust for Scotland, which took place in Kirkcudbright, on May 13 2006.
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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
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E.J. Cowan
The Slaying of the Red Comyn, Dumfries 10th February, 1306
Mediaeval, History, Proceedings
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 179(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Lecture to the Society, 3rd February, 2006. Mention only.
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J. Hannay
The History of the Gardens of Dumfries and Galloway
Botany, History, Agriculture, Meteorology, Recent, Recent (Social), Proceedings
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 179(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Lecture to the Society, 20th January, 2006. This talk related that Dumfries and Galloway has some of the finest gardens in the country which reflect the climate, topography and history of the area. There is a range of gardens that are right on the sea goi
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S. Callander
James Clerk Maxwell
Proceedings, Physics, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 178(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Summary of a lecture given to the Society on 7th October, 2005. Scotland’s renowned Physicist and greatest Countryman, whose home was in Parton Parish, was born in Edinburgh. James Clerk Maxwell is well known to the scientific world but, shamefully, is
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A. Campbell
Glenkens Schools
Proceedings, Recent, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 178(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Summary of a lecture given to the Society, on 18th November, 2005.
The illustrated talk on the Glenkens Schools covered all the recorded schools that were opened in this remote area of the Northern Stewartry starting back in around 1660. The Glenkens co
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M.M. Stewart
The Brus Family in England and Scotland 1100-1295 by Ruth M Blakely. A Review
Review, Mediaeval, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 174(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Ruth Blakely’s magisterial study of the rise of the Brus family, from its Norman roots, through its acquisition of land in both Scotland and England throughout the 12th and 13th centuries, defines the power base from which its most famous descendant, Robe
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A. Gair
We Will Remember Them - Kirkcudbright's Sons 1914-18 by Ian Devlin. A Review
Review, Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), History, Parish History
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 173(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Review of Ian Devlin's booklet 'We Will Remember Them - Kirkcudbright's Sons 1914-18' produced by the Stewartry Museum.
One of the most spectacular War memorials in Galloway is the memorial in Kirkcudbright. It stands in front of MacLellan’s Castle and
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A.D. Anderson
The 'Classified Summary' of the Minutes of the Road Trustees of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright
Recent, Industrial Archaeology, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 168(3.8 MB)
Abstract
The purpose of this addendum is to make it known that copies of the above summary have been deposited for reference in the Ewart Library and the Archive Centre, Dumfries and the Stewartry Museum. It may be used to locate references to roads, bridges and
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A.E. Truckell
A Microfilm Miscellany
Recent, Recent (Social), History, Parish History, Antiquarian
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 165(3.8 MB)
Abstract
A seclection of notes on Torthorwald Kirk Session, 1696-1882; the Baronie of Cluden papers, 1712-31 and Dumfries Burgh Treasurer's Accounts for 1708-10. The notes and observations were made during the course of the transciption of these records held on mi
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A.S. Morton
Newton Stewart: A 1939 Account of the Town and District
Recent, Recent (Social), Industrial Archaeology, History, Agriculture
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 157(3.8 MB)
Abstract
During the course of a Field Study Meeting in Galloway, centred on Newton Stewart, the Institute of Sociology heard a lecture on 9th August, 1939. The talk had been prepared by Alexander S Morton but to his incapacity because of illness the talk was read
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A.R. Williams and P.G. Williams
A Field-Study Meeting in Galloway, August 1939: The Institute of Sociology, Le Play House
Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), Geology, Botany, Archaeology (General), Agriculture, Industrial Archaeology, History, Antiquarian, Field Meeting
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 143(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Between 1st and 15th August 1939 the Institute of Sociology, Le Play House, 35 Gordon Square, London held a field study meeting in Galloway. Centred on Newton Stewart the group set out to investigate the natural history, history and social science of the
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R. Smith
Presbyterian Divisions and Edifice Rivalry in Galloway, 1743-1900
Recent, Recent (Social), History, Parish History, Antiquarian, Architecture
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 123(3.8 MB)
Abstract
Undeniably, old (parish and other) churches of any given area, particularly a rural region like Galloway, figure prominently in the historic and aesthetic landscape. Yet as ‘active’ components in their communities, for decades they have been facing an ong
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L.J. Philip
Planned Villages in Dumfriesshire and Galloway: Location, Form and Function
Recent, Recent (Social), Industrial Archaeology, History, Cartography
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 105(3.8 MB)
Abstract
The eighteenth century was a period of considerable agricultural, social and economic change across Scotland, the era of Enlightenment. Many changes that took place then, agricultural enclosure, the development of new mansion houses with landscaped pleas
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A. Breeze
Historia Brittonum and Arthur's Battle of Tribruit
Early Mediaeval, History, Etymology
TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 53(3.8 MB)
Abstract
An Etymological and philological discussion of Historia Brittonum and Arthur's Battle of Tribuit.
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R.D. Oram
Warrior, State Builder and ... Failure? The Career of Fergus of Galloway
Mediaeval, History, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 191(4.05 MB)
Abstract
A summary of the Cormack Lecture for 2004 - delivered to the Society on 3rd December 2004 by Dr Richard Oram of Stirling University.
A great deal of myth has built up around Fergus of Galloway as there is little in the way of definite information about h
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S.J. Morton
Research on the Lives of Helen Walker and her sister Isobell Walker
Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), History, Parish History, Antiquarian, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 173(4.05 MB)
Abstract
Description of recent research on the lives of Helen and Isobell Walker from the parish of Kirkpatrick Irongray: Helen Walker was Sir Walter Scott's prototype for Jeannie Deans in his novel 'The Heart of Midlothian.' The research makes extensive use of o
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M. Drexler
Dervorguilla of Galloway
Mediaeval, History, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 101(4.05 MB)
Abstract
The youngest daughter of Alan, last of the lords of Galloway, may be best known for something she probably did not build: the bridge across the River Nith in Dumfries which bears her name, Dervorguilla. It is hardly surprising that the people of Dumfries
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I. Gow
Recent Developments at Threave
Proceedings, Recent (Social), Recent, History, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 155(4.91 MB)
Abstract
Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 20th February 2004 by Ian Gow, Senior Curator of the National Trust for Scotland. Mr Gow outlined the history of the Gordon family of Liverpool merchants who moved to the area in the 1870s. After renting ac
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D. Hextall
Kirkconnel Parish Heritage Society
Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Post-mediaeval archaeology, Recent, Recent (Social), History, Parish History, Proceedings, Industrial Archaeology
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 155(4.91 MB)
Abstract
Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 16th January 2004 by Derek Hextall of the Kirkconnel Parish Heritage Society. The society was set up in 1997. The society has developed several projects to mark the vast heritage of the parish. Cairn School
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F. Wilkins
Robert Douglas, 'Collector' of Customs and Master Smuggler
Proceedings, Recent, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 154(4.91 MB)
Abstract
Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 21st November 2003 regarding life and times of Robert Douglas 'Collector' of Customs and Master Smuggler. Douglas married Margaret Corbet, daughter of a Glasgow merchant. He obtained credit on the Isle of m
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J.H.D. Gair
Minute by Minute, 300 years of Lochmaben History (John B. Wilson) A Review
Review, Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), Genealogy, History, Parish History
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 150(4.91 MB)
Abstract
Review of a publication by Dr J B Wilson. This latest volume is based upon a re-examination of the Minutes of Lochmaben Town Council which run from 1612 to 1974. It refers to a recent publication by the Scottish Record Society of a transcription of the ea
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J. Williams
The People of Kirkcudbright in 1786 and 1788 (Innes Macleod) A Review
Review, Genealogy, Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), History, Parish History
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 149(4.91 MB)
Abstract
Review of a volume detailing two late eighteenth century visitation rolls of the town of Kirkcudbright. Background to the town is provided against collated lists of the inhabitants and their genealogy.
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J. Williams
Kirkcudbright: An Alphabetic Guide to its History (David R. Collin) A Review
Review, History, Parish History, Antiquarian, Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), Folklore, Genealogy
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 148(4.91 MB)
Abstract
This volume is literally an alphabetic index of almost every aspect of the life, times and especially the people of Kirkcudbright. Although mainly covering the town of Kirkcudbright it also ranges over the countryside between Ross Island and Tongland.
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J. Williams
From Auchencairn to the Glenkens and Portpatrick: The Journal of David Gibson, 1814-43 (Innes Macleod) A Review
Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), History, Parish History, Review
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 148(4.91 MB)
Abstract
Extracts and commentary from the Journal of David Gibson a baptist lay missionary who worked all over the south-west of Scotland - centred at Auchencairn. The author has used the volume to provide details of the background to the life and times of Gibson.
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J.B. Wilson
A Final Report on the Lochmaben Court and Council Book 1612-1721
Recent, Recent (Social), History, Parish History, Antiquarian
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 139(4.91 MB)
Abstract
A transcript of this volume was published in 2001 by the Scottish Record Society. It covers 221 pages and records 404 meetings. The minutes were written by the clerk of the time, or his deputy, sometimes in a fair, sometimes in an almost indecipherable ha
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J.D. McClure
A Local Treasure-Trove: John Mactaggart's 'Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia'
Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), Folklore, History, Parish History, Antiquarian, Etymology
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 131(4.91 MB)
Abstract
The distinquished tradition of Scots linguistic scholarship began long before the twentieth century and the advent of modern dialectology and lexicography. By far the greatest reference work on the Scots tongue to appear before this period, namely John Ja
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A. E. MacRobert
Mary Queen of Scots' Last Night in Scotland
Mediaeval, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 111(4.91 MB)
Abstract
It is frequently stated as fact that Mary Queen of Scots stayed at Dundrennan Abbey on her last night in Scotland. There is no valid evidence that she did so.
Mary escaped from Loch Leven Castle on 2 May 1568 to Niddry Castle and thence to Hamilton, whe
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R. Toolis
Naked and Unarmoured: A Reassessment of the Role of the Galwegians at the Battle of the Standard
Mediaeval, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 79(4.91 MB)
Abstract
A re-assessment of the role of the Galwegians at the Battle of the Standard. Based upon an analysis of the various contemporary and later texts relating to the event - with comparative data from other sources.
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F. Wilkins
The Role of Wigtownshire in Eighteenth Century Smuggling
Recent, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 181(1.68 MB)
Abstract
According to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh, 'very considerable' quantities of contraband goods were landed in Wigtownshire during the eighteenth century. Only 1.3% of Scotland's population lived here at the time so that the region could not provide cu
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