Kincardine by Doune McLarens from Kirk Lane

[monks13]

Someone i know was working on an old house, when he found an old newspaper under the floor.
He gave me a quick look one day and i came across this article.
Don't know if it will be of any use to anyone.

                    THE NORTH BRITISH AGRICULTURIST.
                                  December 17 1890.
                    Disappearance of a Farmer.
A farmer named Alexander McLaren
residing in Kirklane, Blairdrummond has been
missing since Wednesday last and fears are
entertained that he has accidentley fallen
into the Forth and drowned.
There was a market at Kippen on Wednesday
and McLaren bought some cattle there, with
which he left the village shortly after darkness
had set in, intending to drive them home.
He was last seen in the vicinity of the
Bridge of Frew, which crosses the Forth in
Kippen Parish.

         

[annejan_1]

Thanks for posting this piece from the old Paper. As I have McLarens who farmed on Kirk Lane I found it interesting. I must dig out my files to see if there is a possibility it could have been one of them.  I have an ordnance map of the area and see Kippen but not the Bridge of Frew. I am in Canada - can you tell me where it might be or is it a place that doesn't exist now?

A story like this begs as many questions as the details it gives. I wonder, for instance, why wait 'til dark to start back over territory like that?  Whiskey tents as the sale?   What happened to the cattle?    etc. etc.    Thanks again for your thoughtful posting.    Jan

[cookies4]

Hi Jan and Fergie - Well at least you two are getting somewhere..am still looking for a marriage of Daniel Ferguson and Margaret McLaren  can't find one anywhere SP or IGI that's in Port of Monteith or Callander..what a conundrum 
too hot and sticky to do anything this morning..looks like rain.
as always Pat

Could this be the one you're looking for?

DONALD FERGUSSON     
            
Marriages:
     Spouse:     MARGARET MACLAREN    
     Marriage:     
26 JUL 1835      Callander, Perth, Scotland

Regards,
Nel

[monks13]

Hi annejan.
If you look at your OS map the Bridge of Frew crosses the Forth on the B822
Kippen too Thornhill road (of course in 1890 the roads wouldn't have been numbered) there is a newer bridge there now but i think the remains of the old bridge are near Fordhead farm.
It looks to me that he has intented to go the B822 turn off at Frew Toll on to the B8031 (Coldoch rd) join the B873 Blairdrummond then down the Kirklane
from there, not  100% sure ,but i think that would have been the nearest crossing point of the river.
There probably was a bit of drinking being done, and being that time of year
it would have been getting dark around 3 in the afternoon.

[patvp1]

Thanks Nel for that info but I had already found it just at the begining of this year.
Hi Kenny - Another little snippet of info..where do you find them.  Am going to have another look at the Moss census this morning and see if I can find some connections i.e. Stewart/Ferguson/McLaren..and the whole damned thing.
All the best Pat

[apanderson]

valr - I noticed you had McFarlane's from Kirk Lane.

Would the following MI from a stone in Blair Drummond fit with any of yours:

"To the memory of John McFarlane, late of Kirklane died 15th? June 1851 aged 64
John his son died 2nd? December 1852 aged 26
Thomas his son died ? May? 1864? aged 36
Margaret Graham his wife died 19th? ............?
And their? children
Charles died May 18?? aged 43 years
Isabella died March ? aged 65 years"

The inscription is quite worn so the above is just what I can make out.

Anne

[Govanman]

Fergie,

My name is Ken Hill, my Gt, Gt Gt Grand parents were Peter Ferguson and Ann McNaughtan.  My Gt Gt Grand Mother was Margaret Ferguson, thier daughter b 1840, she married my Gt Gt Grandfather Robert Hill in 1861 and died in Roxburgh in 1917.  Their son Peter, my Gt Grandfather emigrated to Canada with his family in 1903.  In the old manner I am Peter's, Margaret's, Robert's, Peter's, Peter's, David's son Kenneth, and I am understanding your post's correctly we are 1st cousins 4 times removed.  I have been stuck on the Ferguson side for several years now and have some leads the most interesting is the Fersuson's were on the homestead next to my Gt Grandfather in Saskatchewan.  They were always refered to as cousins but I was never able to prove a definative link.  I have my work on Rootsweb world connect at the following link: 
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kandshill_gamma&id=I01578

The information back from Peter and Ann is speculation and I have been working for at least five years off and on to confirm it.  Happy to meet you.  The email contact at the link is correct. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Ken Hill

Thank you Pat.

That Moss Census is a brillient document. I spent ages last night looking through it and will now have to do some serious re-thinking about my ancestors location at that time.
My GGG grandfather, Peter Ferguson, was born in Kincardine in 1801 and I had assumed that they lived on the moss at that time. but neither him nor his parents, Donald and Marren, are on the Moss Census in 1814 although Peter was farming ( and clearing) at Robertson Lane in 1841.
So it's more head scratching and trying to figure out, if they were not on the Moss,  where were they ?

Fergie

[Fergie38]

Hello Cousin Ken.

Yes there is a definite connection there as Peter and Ann were also my G. G. G. grandparents.

  You have email.

      Robert.

[monks13]

Try the Gargunnock history website.
It is run by a John Mclaren who's family have been in the area since the 1700's