June 2011 Blog Posts (6)

William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus (1552 – 3 March 1611) was the son of William, the 9th Earl (1533–1591). He was a direct descendant of King James I through his paternal grandmother, Lady Agnes Keith, a daughter of William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal.He studied at St. Andrews University and joined the household of the Earl of Morton. Subsequently, while visiting the French court, he became a Roman Catholic, and was in consequence, upon his return, disinherited and placed under restraint.A…

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Lord James Douglas (1617–1645) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier.He was born at Douglas Castle, Douglas, South Lanarkshire, the son of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, and his wife Margaret Hamilton, a daughter of Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley.Douglas was sent at an early age to the court of Louis XIII, where he was served the King as a Page, where he steadily moved through the levels of the Maison du Roi.A fine memorial was erected to his memory in the Chapelle de…

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I've been trying to find info about Daniel McArthur (McArther) for the past 10 years. I know he served in the 28th Mississippi Rifles during the Civil War and was wounded and captured at the fall of Vicksburg, 3 Jul 1863. He was interred at the POW camp in Chicago until Aug, 1865, where the life expectancy was less than 4 months. He spent time in the Ft Smith, AR, area after the war, where he married a Cherokee woman. He was from west AL, originally. Family legend has it that…

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The first ever on-farm sale of Alpacas took place at the home of Campsie Camelids breeders, Freddie and Janet Small, of Ballochruin Farm, Balfron. Included in the sale was the major reduction sale from Campsie, along with invited herds.

Buyers travelled from Elgin in the North of Scotland and came from Corwen in Wales to invest in some of Scotlands quality prize winning animals.

Heading the line up at 3,800gns was a light brown maiden female from the Ravenshaw herd. This two… Continue

There follows a brief early history of Queensberry House, in Edinburgh, then a T-plan structure originally erected by Dame Margaret Douglas of Balmakelly as a ‘Grand Lodging’.

 

c 1667

Queensberry House was first built for Dame Margaret Douglas of…

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A rare navigational instrument signed 'Cary, London', patent 73, dating from around 1825.As a result of clever design, this instrument can be used to take instantaneous sightings of objects separated by up to 120 degrees, so facilitating a rapid determination of a given position.

The 110mm. Linear plotting scale under the semi-circular scale (reading to one minute of the… Continue