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Scots migrating to colonial Western Australia were part of a nineteenth century trend taking Scots to various corners of the world. By the mid-nineteenth century Scots were scattered across the globe, most noticeably in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, continuing a tradition existing since the seventeenth century. But while the large groups of Scottish migrants are well known, smaller groups of Scots such as existed in Wes...

Scots migrating to colonial Western Australia were part of a nineteenth century trend taking Scots to various corners of the world. By the mid-nineteenth century Scots were scattered across the globe, most noticeably in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, continuing a tradition existing since the seventeenth century. But while the large groups of Scottish migrants are well known, smaller groups of Scots such as existed in Wes...

A history of a single kin group, expanding from an Anglo-Norman whose seal is on the Ragman Roll 1296, to 150-odd families of the mid-19th century - a different approach from most family histories written backwards from a present day single unit. Novel aspects include: . The concept of an "expanding historical torrent" and the importance of kinship in ensuring survival over the long-term. . Local history (Roxburghshire and Berwickshire, East a...

Scotland's Statistical Accounts present an unrivalled source of a country's health at the end of the Eighteenth Century. For the first time, both Accounts are brought together, parish by parish, and split into manageable volumes convenient for the family historian who seeks the contemporary background for their Scottish ancestors. The Haddingtonshire (East Lothian) volumes are divided on geographical lines from West to East.

Scotland's Statistical Accounts present an unrivalled source of a country's health at the end of the Eighteenth Century. For the first time, both Accounts are brought together, parish by parish, and split into manageable volumes convenient for the family historian who seeks the contemporary background for their Scottish ancestors. The Haddingtonshire (East Lothian) volumes are divided on geographical lines from West to East.

Scotland's Statistical Accounts present an unrivalled source of a country's health at the end of the Eighteenth Century. For the first time, both Accounts are brought together, parish by parish, and split into manageable volumes convenient for the family historian who seeks the contemporary background for their Scottish ancestors. The Haddingtonshire (East Lothian) volumes are divided on geographical lines from West to East.

Volume 1 includes plates and descriptions for Aberbrothock Abbey, Forfar, . Aberdeen ( Kings College and Cathedral.), Aberdour House, Fife, Airth Castle, Linlithgow, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Fife., Auchan's Castle, Ayr, Balveny Castle, Banff, Borthwick Castle, Edinburgh, Brechin Cathedral and Round Tower, Forfar, Burgie Castle, Elgin, Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries, Cambuskenneth Tower, Stirling, Castle Campbell, Clackmannan, Cawdor Castle, Nair...

This book is much expanded and enlarged from the author's first book - Villa Gardens - which he published in 1902. Drawing on the works of Mawson, Robinson and others, William Rogers provides a 'classic' view of - and a fascinating insight into - early 20th century design. Little is known about him as a designer of historical note, but he lays claim to having designed some 'hundreds of gardens'. By their small and urban nature few, if any, sur...

This concise guide is perfect for anyone with an Edwardian, or fashionable late Victorian, house who wants a contemporary yet period garden. The subtitle is 'How to Plan and How to Plant Them', and contained within are nine plans for gardens, each with a perspective - unprecedented from any designer of this date. The perspectives are so good that they have been enlarged and reprinted at the back of this new edition. Born in 1864 in Victorian B...

The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, or, the original, antiquated, and natural curiosities of the South of Scotland, containing Sketches of eccentric characters and curious places, with explanations of singular words, terms, and phrases, interspersed with poems, tales, anecdotes, &c., and various other strange matters, the whole illustrative of the ways of the peasantry, and manners of Caledonia, drawn out and alphabetically arranged by John...

It is my desire, not so much to write a new book about Galloway, as to focus and concentrate what I have already written for the use of Galloway-lovers and Galloway travellers. I am not making a guide-book, but rather a garrulous literary companion to the guide-books which already exist, and to those which may be written in the future. I write not of All Galloway, but only of the part best known to me - that which has, in some degree, come to ...

The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland: We, your Majesty's Commissioners, appointed to make an Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary culture, civilisation, and conditions of life of the people in Scotland from the earliest times to the year 1707, and to specify those which seem most worthy of preservation, humbly pre...

In describing the different families celebrated in past ages, I have given greater prominence to those whose history has never been published before, and who are still represented in the legitimate male line. Owing to the custom of the sons of heiresses inheriting their mother's name, and of lands being rarely entailed exclusively on male heirs, it is a very unusual circumstance to find two branches of one family claiming unbroken male descent...

The 1840s had seen a rapid expansion of railways in Britain. Some were more likely to succeed than others. The Glasgow & South Western found itself always in the shadow of its competitors, its route from Glasgow to Carlisle lacked the direct approach taken by the rival Caledonian Railway. The G&SWR, trains from Glasgow meandered through Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, calling at Paisley, Johnstone, Lochwinnoch, Beith, Kilbirnie and Dalry before hea...

In the "History of Dumfries, " there are two chapters devoted to the life of Robert Burns, when residing in that ancient burgh. Some admirers of the poet were good enough to express their approval of what had been said of him in the history, and to .follow up their favourable verdict with a proposal that the sketch should be reproduced in a separate form. As a result of this suggestion, the present little work was prepared for the press. The n...

Metcalfe's substantial history contains chapters on Literature, Streets and Buildings, Industries, Societies, The New Town, Markets, Municipal Management, The Grammar School, Education, and Witchcraft, as well as a thorough overview of the ecclesiastical and political circumstances influencing the development of the Abbey town. It also features the 1695 Poll Tax Roll.

William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides, published three years earlier, journeys north and finds, among others, Dunbar: ' a little sea-port apparently made for the express purpose of robbing Scotland of all its produce.', Edinburgh: 'the finest city I ever saw in my life', Glasgow: 'a city of the greatest beauty', with 'the finest, most convenient, and best conducted cattle market', Greenock: 'streets are regular, conveniently wide, ' with a ve...

Originally published in 1823. The general format is to list all reasonable roads that connected the main towns in Scotland, with intermediate towns and villages shown, and distances given. In a parallel text, a running commentary is provided of what might be 'observed' by the traveller. Inns, 'which furnish post horses and chaises', cross roads, the names of gentlemen's seats, and the 1821 census populations are all detailed. Included in the e...

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