Chance Inn

[cupcake]

Could anyone please tell me if there was a " Chance Inn" in Dumfries. I have a photograph of my ancestors outside this Inn. Sorry, there is no date.

Thank you

[Gadget]

Are you sure it's in Dumfries?

 Scotlands Places list one in Fife and Kinross and Forfarshire.

https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/

[cupcake]

No, I am not sure whether it was in Dumfries. My ancestors were from Dumfries so, I thought perhaps it may have been there. I know at some stage they had a pub at Troqueer , Dumfries  - no other details.

Thank you

[Forfarian]

Are you sure it's in Dumfries?
Scotlands Places list one in Fife and Kinross and Forfarshire.
https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/

I don't know the Fife one but there are two in Angus.

One in the parish of Inverkeilor. The original Chance Inn was at what is now Cotton of Inchock
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5419178
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=56.62623&lon=-2.52897&layers=5&b=1 but the inn in the village of Inverkeilor was also called the Chance Inn.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3997268  It survived into the 21st century but is now permanently closed, and the building has been redeveloped as housing.

The other is in the parish of Tannadice. It now seems to be known as Denside Cottage
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=56.73756&lon=-2.88062&layers=5&b=1
and https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NO4660

[cupcake]

 Thank you for the info.  I am beginning to think they may just have visited the Chance Inn at sometime.
I am almost sure they had the Troqueer Arms/Inn, in Dumfries. No idea of the dates though. His name was Reginald Tupper Carnegie, his wife was Margaret (nee Mofatt) ( . Something I will have to look into.

Thank you Gadget & Forfarian

cupcake

[Forfarian]

I see that Reginald Tupper Carnegie was born in Stornoway in 1917, married in Troqueer in 1939 and died in Dumfries in 1972.

The 1940 valuation roll lists seven Chance Inns.  One each in Crail and Ceres (Fife), Belhelvie (Aberdeenshire), Kinross, Errol (Perthshire) and Inverkeilor and Tannadice (Angus).

In 1940 Reginald T Carnegie was proprietor and occupier of a bungalow, Brae Rannoch, in Terregles Road, Troqueer. He was charged with wasting fuel in 1944 and his address then was given as Braerannoch, Terregles Road, Dumfries.

[Gadget]

I think we've been looking at the same info.

His parents were Frank Perry Carnegie, a merchant and Josephine MS Watson. address at marriage was Abbey House, Dumfries.

[Gadget]

Margaret Moffat  was 21 at marraige. She was a typist and living at 4 Maryville or Maryvilla Terrace, Dumfries.  Her parents were William Main Moffat, plumber and Christina MS Smith

[Gadget]

Is there any chance of you scanning the photo and putting it up.