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hi
i will look into all of this for you
miners worked at rowanburn near canonbie --it was not unusual for sone etc to leave family farms then to seek work as things were tough
i imagine your family left here because canada offered them a chance of a better life
farming in the mid 19th century held nothing but long toil and little reward -Scotland then was in the middle of the industrial revolution and farming was being left behind by mant sick of the toil and especially in hill farming --little reward was made from hill lambs --rents had to be paid for farms first before family put food on the table
i myself had family leave hill farming to go to Idaho in the USA  to farm
Rosemary and I often look at derilict houses such as The Wisp and it saddens us that so many generations lived died in these places and left their native soil
Sometimes taking a quite moment to can hear the voices of sadness for those forced by circumstance to leave the native land --in many ways Scotland is a sadder place for the countless numbers forced to leave this beautiful country
 

hi thanks --my name is leslie --will i have a look at the local kirkyard and see if there are any headstone in the graveyard with Bell about the dates you mention???
The Bells also lived at the Wisp which is another house on Lymiecleuch --not just a ruin --im led to believe
attached is a photograph of our house Lymiecleuch --the same one they lived in all that time ago
Like us they will have farmed cheviot sheep
Lymiecleuch has a very very long history andhas had folk living and farming here in one form or another since at least the Iron age --just along the road is signs of this we see every day --
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as well as farming and shooting
Rosemary and I are very well known Scottish Artists --we paint shooting fishing and rural art
leslie xx 

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