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Hi Nutkin

Am looking into COCHRANE just now as my Uncle Bill (William) Cochrane married a daughter of the Catrine Chisholm family ( my line) and I was curious if he had shown up in any responses to your queries, particularly from John COCHRANE from Richardton - who has been in contact with one of my Canadian Cameron contacts

Uncle Bill was the Catrine chemist and an inventor of some well known things


Cheers, John Chisholm

Thanks Agnes. Never looked at them before. What’s the most accessible way to them please ?

some of the names are defo familiar, alongside some artistic licence in scaling it has to be said

There's also a Cameron's Moss showing on some later maps near Whitelee hill some 5.5 m direct NW of Loudounhill Farm  https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=55.6554&lon=-4.3296&layers=1&b=1

A stretch of the Roy overlay from right to left and a slight anti-clockwise rotation to line up Mucks Water and Brocklees supports that, and one suspects that the surveyors walk from Lochfield to Pischenheuch was aided by a dram or 2 , as they must have lost track of the distance . and it lines up nicely with Harkhousesykes (presumably  Herocksyke as was )

As it happens, the ROY military Map 1752 -1755 shows Pischineuch approx 3.5 miles  North (NNW) of the ultimate Cameron ancestral home at Loudounhill Farm. As per attached Pischineuch shows as a modest settlement up in the hills which has disappeared from maps a century later in the more detailed OS Map of 1857-60. This is the reference in the Canadian family tree papers, and in the Ancestry files. The farm became East Loudounhill Farm in the 1940's when it was sold, with the Loudounhill Farm name then being assumed by what up till then was known as Loudounhill House , some 600 yards across the fields. The buildings are still inhabited (by a well known Scottish artist) and in excellent condition

Matthew - I couldn't get in to Ancestry , but be great thanks if there are any screen grabs you could post of these references