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Ayrshire / Re: Whitletts Ayr
« on: Monday 10 December 12 17:58 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks I am going to contact the national archives in Edinburgh as local records only go back to 1850's. The name on the headstone that was found dating 1765, is the same as the family who owned the house until the 1950's. Thehouse its self is marked by name on local maps from 1850,so I assume it was part of a known estate or something of note at that time

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Ayrshire / Re: Whitletts Ayr
« on: Sunday 09 December 12 22:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi I used to play in the orchard.  Iwas born in the house in 1951, so we may have met as children. The cottage and the house were both owned by the same person, and it was the Whittons in the 1950's  According to the records I have found your father would have been A. Mckay

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Ayrshire / Whitletts Ayr
« on: Friday 13 July 12 20:06 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to trace the history of a house in Whitletts, Ayr. The house was called Padan Aram, and was in the Main Road. When I was a child, the land next to the house was an overgrown orchard where we used to play. In the 1960's this land was cleared to build shops and a headstone was found whichmentioned the house by name. It was dated 1765. I have traced ownership to 1850's through valuation records, but do not know how to get further back. The archives only hold valuations from 1830's. Can anyone suggest anything.

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Perthshire / Re: Anne MCKENZIE - Kenmore Perth Scotland c1850
« on: Friday 13 July 12 19:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi Abi
I am looking at Stewarts . I have found James and Ann Stewart. They had 5 children as far as I can find so far.
Ctherine born on 26/11/1848,  Donald born on 27/6/1850, William born on 24/7/1855, and Duncan born on 21/1/1857.  Donald married Helen Beattie from Inveravon Morayshire. On the 1891 census they were in Balnacraig, Logierait. They had 4 children, Annie 10, Nelly 6, Margaret 3, and Jane 11 months. In the 1901 census, they were in Weem. They had Margaret 13, Jane 10, Donald 9, Elizabeth 7, John 6, Barclay 4, Isabella 2, and Jessie newborn. Donald was a gamekeeper, as was his son Donald. The were at the Killiechassie estate.
In an obituary in the Perth Advertiser dated 6/10/1948, states that Mrs Stewart died at her son's residence at Blair Atholl, and was buried from her home at the Old Rectory in Dunkeld, and was buried in the cathedral burial ground. She was survived by one son and 3 daughters, 2 of whom are abroad. Her son Donald retired from service as gamekeeper with the Duke of Atholl after 55 years service in 1968

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