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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Kirkcudbrightshire => Topic started by: thousandnames on Monday 30 May 11 07:10 BST (UK)

Title: Muir of Bagby
Post by: thousandnames on Monday 30 May 11 07:10 BST (UK)

Where is this place near Creetown? I can't find any maps of it, but I would like to know about it because my 6g grandfather Alexander Hughan was Laird of this place.

Thanks

Title: Re: Muir of Bagby
Post by: Callywoods on Tuesday 31 May 11 09:49 BST (UK)

Bagbie is a small tenant farm on the Kirkdale estate, just outside the village of Carsluith (near Creetown). I can'y imagine a laird living there. There are quarries nearby, one of them is Bagbie quarry.

Title: Re: Muir of Bagby
Post by: thousandnames on Wednesday 01 June 11 05:02 BST (UK)

Thanks. Alexander Hughan was part of a well-to-do family, he may simply have called himself Laird  ;)