Help finding Bogra (farm?) near Cannonbie

[bealach]

I would add that James Elliot and Isabel Broach had a daughter, Janet,  in Bogra the date given in the Old Parish Records of Canonbie being 2/8/1801.  No other offspring are recorded.
Bealach.

[mgscott]

Thank you both for your information and insights.  I'm fairly new at this 'family tree' research.   Is Broatch a common name and pentiful in numbers today?  And, is there any likely cemetary nearby that might have provided the final resting place for our Elliots and Broatchs?

[walterc]

Memorial inscriptions:
Langholm Auld Kirkyard: one Broatch: (ROBERT BROATCH who died in Langholm 16th May 1844 aged 67 years)
Wauchope: one: (MARGARET MILLAR wife of Thomas Broatch who died 16 December 1911 aged 59 years ~ no mention of Thomas)
Westerkirk: one burial in 1959
None in Ewes, Staplegordon, Eskdalemuir, Canonbie, Castleton, Ettleton or Unthank graveyards

~ so Broatch isn't a common name in Eskdale or Liddesdale, unlike Elliot.

You might get an idea of the distribution of present day Broatches using the on-line telephone directories.

WalterC

[boswells]

The people from Bogra would almost certainly have been buried at Kirkbankhead Cemetery.This long disused cementery is on land at Sark Tower which is on the side of the road between Canonbie and Annan.  Kinmount Willie Armstrong a notorious Reiver is reputed to have been buried there.  There are several Armstrongs, Elliots, Carruthers etc. buried there.
Sadly none of the names you mention have yet come up on my researches but Thomas Elliot was a very common name in the district. One of their central farms was at Archerbeck near Canonbie.
Boswells

[boswells]

Sorry I forgot to comment on the Broatches.  Not a common name anywhere I believe I have come up against it only in Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire and Edinburgh.  There were Brotches in  farm called the Thwaite about 100 years ago and some others around Lockerbie.
Boswells 

[walterc]

Pop   Broatch   into

http://www.langholmarchive.org.uk/

you'll get 22 hits between 1848 and 1871

[minto77]

Arthur Bell was a cotton weaver and lived at upper Bogra from the late 1830s to his death in 1858. He had a large family mainly farm labourers many of whom are shown on the 1861 census.
The eldest son Arthur moved to Teviothead and was married to a Janet Elliot in 1859 he later moved to Hawick with his two sons Arthur and James.
Arthur married in 1890 and had a son Arthur Elliot Bell who married in 1927 and again in 1943 who had a son Arthur Elliot Bell who married in 1971 and had a son Arthur Elliot Bell who married in 2009 and had a son Arthur Elliot Bell.
James Bell Married in 1889 and had two sons Arthur Elliot Bell and John Hogg Bell. He moved from Hawick to Callender in the early 1900s.