Parish (hamlet) of HORNDEAN, Ladykirk

[heiserca]

I found the death of a relative of mine, Robert Clazie, in 1921 at "New Horndean".  Does that mean there was an old Horndean, maybe located a short dstance away?

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I found the death of a relative of mine, Robert Clazie, in 1921 at "New Horndean".  Does that mean there was an old Horndean, maybe located a short dstance away?

No, there was no 'old Horndean'.......New Horndean is a name of a farm...........Horndean was a village

[961]

Unfortunately you will find that many modern internet maps put the name New Horndean beside the village instead of at the farm of that name which lies about half a mile to the north west of the village

[heiserca]

Ah, that makes perfect sense now!  I didn't realize that Horndean was such a tiny fly-speck. 

We had a record of a marriage at Horndean, 30 Jan 1701, Andrew Nickson & Mary Clasey.  Horndean sounds too small to have ever had it's own church.  How would a marriage happen there?  Probably people went to Ladykirk for baptisms, marriages, funerals?  Was there even a cemetery at Horndean?  Where could records be found of deaths at that occured there?


 

 

[961]

Yes, there was a church in Horndean village at one time. The site is on the east side of the village. There is also a burial ground which can be accessed via a public footpath which starts about 200 yards north of the village and travels east down a large field before turning south. The graveyard is about a mile from the village and was used until the 1800s

The footpath is marked on the map linked to my earlier post and the graveyard is at the green mark at the end of the path

It is said that over 100 folk lived in Horndean. Now there are about 25 or so

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when i lived in horndean in the 50's/60's there was only 18 people living there

[961]

One new house was built about 8 years ago and another is currently under construction
Planning has been agreed for two more

The average age of the residents must have dropped by 20 or 30 years in the last 10 years

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the footpath that lead to the graveyard went through the property owned by my family and was called, then, the Fishermans Walk.
the pathway took you passed the graveyard down to the Tweed