Category Archives: Dumfries

Eskdale: Not just Beatties and Littles

Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery, Eskdalemuir

Eskdale in Dumfriesshire is to some, a rather out of the way, insignificant place. However, it’s contribution to humanity has certainly been impressive ; the birthplace of Scots language poet and co-founder of the Scottish National Party Hugh MacDiarmid; the birthplace of arguably Britain’s greatest ever civil engineer Thomas Telford; and the amazing Buddhist centre of Samye Ling which has been attracting a huge range of visitors including major celebrities since its inception in the 1960s.

For those of us interested in family history, it is home to the Beattie and Little families with others like Telfer, Glendinning, Armstrong, Laidlaw and Scott prominent as well. One of the other influences across most of Eskdale are the Buccleuch Estates. The Dukes of Buccleuch have owned a large portion of farms across the four parishes of Langholm, Westerkirk, Eskdalemuir and Ewes for over 400 years. And whatever you think of that form of ownership, we genealogists are grateful for the historical record keeping associated with it. Rentals give us details of farm tenants in particular years and in some cases we get additional information about relatives – mothers, brothers, uncles etc. Buccleuch Estates preferred to support single family succession in many of their farms which means that we often find the same family surname in a farm over a lengthy period. I’ve been able to transcribe a number of rentals for Eskdale farms covering the years of 1714, 1766 and 1814 which in many cases allow us to see family succession over an extended period. If your ancestor was a Buccleuch farm tenant then there’s an excellent chance that you can learn something new about the family from some of these rentals, recorded at a time before decennial censuses were started.

As the title of this piece suggests, there were a considerable number of farm tenants in Eskdale named Beattie or Little. However there are at least 30 other surnames included in the rental documents. These documents are available HERE at a small cost and join a growing collection of transcribed rental documents covering Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire parishes available from Relatively Scottish. I hope they may prove to be useful for you.

Buccleuch Estate Maps

Relatively Scottish has always been very interested in the family histories of those who lived on the Buccleuch Estates sometime in the last 300 years. I think that old maps are an important means of helping to understand the lives of our ancestors.

Those of you with an interest in historical maps of the Buccleuch/Queensberry Estates in Nithsdale may be aware that there’s an excellent collection of such maps on a farm by farm basis available online at the National Library of Scotland website (maps.nls.uk). These cover both 18th and 19th centuries and are a great insight into how our ancestors may have farmed the land.

Unfortunately though, the NLS collection doesn’t cover all the farms of the Border Estates of Roxburghshire, Eastern Dumfriesshire and Selkirkshire. There is however an alternative resource available online called Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives 1550-1740. The University of Edinburgh put this collection together back in 2014. Amongst thousands of high quality map images are individual farm maps of all Buccleuch farms which were surveyed back in 1718 as part of an extensive programme of agricultural improvement.

The example image above shows the map of the farm of Bowanhill at Teviothead in Roxburghshire. This shows the shape of the whole farm including buildings, rivers and enclosures where appropriate. It names all the bordering properties and offers a withering verdict on the quality of the land in many cases. Here we have ‘indifferent good corn land’ and ‘sorry pasture’.

These maps are all part of the Buccleuch Muniments kept at the National Records of Scotland. But here they are conveniently available to a worldwide audience through the University of Edinburgh website. Explore them yourself at Charting the Nation. Select ‘Browse All’ to view the full collection. Please comment if you find them useful at all.

Annan – gateway to a new life in Canada

In an era before railways, moving around Scotland and England was not easy and in general was prohibitively expensive for many. When times were tough and agricultural labourers were finding it hard to feed their families, their thoughts turned to making a new start by emigrating to the New World. In some cases, financial help with the cost of the passage to the New World was available through emigration societies or local landowners.  But this help rarely extended to the cost of surface transport to the port of departure. Consequently, it made sense to depart from a port as close to home as possible.

Annan Waterfoot as painted by W.H.Nutter in 1868

It was for that reason that Annan Waterfoot became important for emigration from the Borders in the early years of the 19th century.  At Waterfoot, about a mile downstream of the town at the mouth of the River Annan, there was sufficient draft to allow reasonably sized sea-going vessels to berth at the piers there. Sailing ships of 200-300 tons departed regularly for ports like St Johns and Quebec in Canada with perhaps 150 souls on board seeking a new life.

An 1832 report in the Carlisle Patriot newspaper describes emigrants departing from Annan to join an emigrant ship at Maryport, a port on the other side of the Solway Firth.   ‘Emigrants for Canada to sail by the Donegal of Maryport have, during the first 2 days of this week, arrived at Annan, principally  from Roxburghshire and the neighbourhood of Hawick and Jedburgh. They were of all ages, from infants hanging at the breast, to old men and women of apparently 70 and 80 years of age; and many of them seemingly opulent farmers and their families. On Tuesday nearly 30 carts heavily laden with luggage passed through this place. The whole sailed this morning in four vessels previously engaged to convey them. The numbers are computed at 150 or 160; and it is also said that squad is only the advance guard of the body preparing to follow them.’

Undoubtedly, many of those who emigrated to Canada from Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire around the 1820s would have joined their ship at Annan for the 6 week journey to Canada.

By the middle of the 1830s, larger steamships up to 500 tons were introduced to provide a twice-weekly passenger service to Liverpool. I became aware of this when a family history client came to me to discover more about the links between Annan and Liverpool in his own family.  Family members from Annan travelled back and forth regularly in the 1830s and 1840s operating as ‘travelling drapers’.  With the coming of the railways by the end of the 1840s, steamships became uncompetitive and the service ceased operation although cargo ships continued to run from Annan to Liverpool for many years to follow.

There was an attempt to revive a passenger service in 1899 but it failed to receive the backing it needed. Annan remained as a fishing port but it’s importance as a trading port declined significantly thereafter.

Eskdalemuir Roots of an Empire

General Sir Charles William Pasley (1780 – 1861) was a distinguished British soldier and military engineer. He had a brilliant mind and his writings are generally considered to have influenced the development of the British Empire. He was fundamental in setting up the Royal Engineers regiment.

He was born in Eskdalemuir in Dumfriesshire on 8th September 1780. However, you’ll not find the birth of a Charles Pasley if you look in the Old Parish Registers. He was born illegitimate as Charles Dixon with just his mother Bessy (or Betty) Dixon listed. It is the minutes of Eskdalemuir Kirk Session which tells us the real story.

“Compeared Bessy Dixon and confessed she had brought forth a child in uncleanness to Charles Pasley now residing in Lisbon. She was rebuked according to her confession and was appointed to enter upon a course of satisfaction and to appear before the congregation next Lord’s day; in regard that the Moderator reported that the said Charles had confessed to him and others of his friends before he left the country that he was the father of that child.”

The Kirk Session record shows that both mother and father have separately confessed their guilt to the minister. His father Charles Pasley was a merchant in Lisbon with a family link to Craig in neighbouring Westerkirk parish. His uncle was Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley RN who served with distinction in a number of 18th century naval campaigns.

This is one of the many insights that only the minutes of the Kirk Session can give us about Scottish historical figures. These Kirk Session minutes are freely available at scotlandspeople.gov.uk. You’ll also find a list elsewhere on this site (available for a small charge) which indexes all illegitimate births, irregular marriages and antenuptial fornications which were exposed by Eskdalemuir kirk session between 1703 and 1823.

Ancestors on the Buccleuch Estates ?

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the largest single landowner in Dumfriesshire and the Scottish Borders was (and still is) the Duke of Buccleuch. Many ordinary people made their living on the Buccleuch estates – perhaps directly employed to serve in the castles and gardens, to provide labour for estate improvements , or to farm the land as tenants or sub-tenants of the Duke.  It is therefore natural to consider what evidence might be left of such an ancestor in the archives of the estates.

Estates as large as Buccleuch generated a substantial amount of paperwork in routine administration on a day to day basis. Indeed the burden of administration was often contracted out to a range of parties including chamberlains and solicitors. As a result, there is very much a mixed picture of records across the estates – some have been kept meticulously and survived over hundreds of years. Others are sporadic and incomplete. 

For those in the direct employ of the estate, the records are patchy. Some records of wages for named individuals for certain periods do survive but many have been lost. There are also some records of piece payments for specific work undertaken by contractors like quarrying or forestry.

It is possible to search the collection to see what might be available using the NRS search tool at http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/welcome.aspx. Enter ‘GD224’ in the Reference field to search only the Buccleuch collection.

The area which has perhaps been best preserved are the rental rolls for the farm tenancies which cover a period from around 1630 through to the 20th century. Many of these rolls are now in the care of the National Records of Scotland in a collection known as the ‘Buccleuch Muniments’. These include the estates of Dalkeith, Melrose, Eckford, Ettrick Forest and Kirkurd, Hassendean and Hawick, Teviotdalehead, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Westerkirk, Eskdalemuir, Liddesdale and Canonbie.

A rental document details the name of tenants and the amount which they were due to pay on an annual basis. On the face of it, that may not seem to be of much value to a family historian.  However, the chamberlain who was responsible for drawing up the rental document would often add little snippets of helpful family information e.g. ‘George Armstrang, son to the old tenant’  can be very useful information when we have the possibility of consulting an earlier rental to find a ‘Robert Armstrang’ as the tenant at that particular farm several years before.  If we read the tenants as ‘Jean Thomson and her son Robert Elliot’ then we can deduce that Jean Thomson’s husband was a Mr Elliot who was the former tenant and has now died (women are always given their maiden name in these rental documents) and Jean and Robert are now joint tenants. Brothers and uncles are also often mentioned too. There was a strong tradition of keeping tenancies in a family wherever possible in the Buccleuch Estates. I know this as my own ancestors were tenants at a single Buccleuch property for over 250 years.

Part of a 1711 rental record

In normal times, records held by the National Records of Scotland can be consulted if you can visit Register House in Edinburgh. But with Register House having been closed since March 2020, these are definitely not normal times. I have therefore made transcriptions of some Buccleuch rental rolls  that I hold available for download on this website. These cover just two of the estates – Canonbie and Liddesdale. Some are free of charge and there is a small charge for others. I believe however that they will be of considerable value for people who have farming ancestors from this area. Years available at present are 1630, 1766-67 and 1814-15 for both Liddesdale and Canonbie and also 1792-93 for Canonbie. The later rolls in particular often feature not just main tenants but sub-tenants and cottars too with perhaps just a house and a very small patch of land for themselves. Further Canonbie rolls for 1683 and 1701 have just been added to the collection.

Records pertaining to the Queensberry Estate (surrounding Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfriesshire) remain with the Duke and so tracing ancestors on this estate is not as simple. However, I’m excited to announce that I’ll be able to offer some transcripted rentals for Queensberry Estate very soon.

New indexed genealogy resources for Canonbie now available at relativelyscottish.com

Picture : Canonbie Kirk – The Carlisle Kid Creative Commons Licence

Last time I talked about the value of Kirk Session records and how they can help to fill the gaps in the information provided by more conventional resources that we know like Old Parish Registers and Monumental Inscriptions. One of the drawbacks of the Kirk Session records is that they require computer access to the imaging network of the National Records of Scotland either in Edinburgh or in one of the satellite hubs in heritage centres elsewhere in Scotland. With these centres having now been closed for many months, we can see the deficiencies in current provision very plainly. And don’t even mention access for those further afield outside of Scotland !

However, I’m delighted to announce that I’ve completed indexing of Canonbie kirk session records and am making full indexes available on this site. Three indexes will be available – one covers 975 illegitimate births between 1708 and 1855 and the name of the father is almost always included. The kirk session records show that most of the named fathers do acknowlege their ‘guilt’ to the church. A few do initially dispute the fact that they were in fact the father but after a de facto trial process which the kirk session invoked, most do in fact finally agree (and were thus liable to pay some maintenance to the mother).

There were around 250 so-called ‘irregular marriages’ – marriages which were legal in the eyes of the law but frowned on by the church. Canonbie was in an ideal location for irregular marriages to happen. In the early 18th century, runaway couples from Canonbie just had to cross the border into England and there were clergymen who could marry them there in front of witnesses without all the palaver of a Church wedding. However, with the introduction of Hardwicke’s Act of 1753 in England, it was no longer possible to get married there without residence requirements and banns being read. Very quickly, Scottish marriage law suddenly became exceptional in not requiring residence and nor did it need a clergyman to perform the service. A whole industry came to be set up in the neighbouring parish of Gretna targeted at eloping couples from England. However, it was also very simple for couples from Canonbie to find a suitable marriage ‘celebrant’ there and continue to defy the kirk. Time and time again we find reference to Gretna irregular marriages within Canonbie Kirk Session records.

The third classification singled out for rebuke and fine by the kirk session was ‘ante-nuptial fornication’. This was encountered when a couple conceived a child out of wedlock but then got married, normally before the child was born. Over 250 instances of this occurs in the records between 1708 and 1855. In reality, there would have been many more but records don’t survive for that entire period – there are some gaps. A particular value of these records is where they indicate a marriage prior to 1768. There are no OPR marriage records for Canonbie parish prior to 1768.

Along with the Kirk Session records, a number of indexes of farm rental records for Canonbie are also being made available covering different rental years between 1630 (the earliest available Buccleuch rental document) and 1815.

Download documents are variously available for free, or for a small charge of £5 or £10. This will help support further transcriptions for this and other parishes. Visit the Canonbie Download page here

The Sturgeons of Dumfries and Galloway

Did you know that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s ancestors were Ulster Scots?  Scots who had moved to Ulster and may have been there for as long as two hundred years before coming back to settle on Ayrshire soil around 1847. Robert Sturgeon was the son of weaver William Sturgeon and his wife Mary Stevenson who lived in County Down. It seems highly likely that it was the famine caused by the potato blight that caused Robert Sturgeon and his wife Mary Cochrane and their family of 5 or 6  to make the journey to Scotland to seek a better life. Robert found work as an agricultural labourer in Dailly in South Ayrshire and the family remained in Ayrshire thereafter.

But what of the origins of the family ?  Why did they move to Ulster in the first place ? The Sturgeon name has its origins firmly in and around Dumfries and the eastern part of the Stewartry. And Sturgeons do crop up associated with a number of historical events associated with the area..

In an epic power struggle during the regency period when James VI was just a boy in 1585, John Maxwell, the Earl of Morton, attacked Stirling Castle with a large number of his tenants from Dumfriesshire. Among them were 15 Sturgeons.

Sturgeons appeared on both sides of the Covenanting argument. In 1644, Sir John Sturgeon of Torrorie (near Kirkbean in Galloway pictured above) was tried in Edinburgh with a number of other lairds for his Royalist sympathies.  Some of his co-accused ended up losing their heads but Sir John seems to have been a little more fortunate. Forty years later, when Covenanters were being hunted high and low during the ‘Killing Times’ , a William Sturgeon of Barncrosh (near Ringford in Galloway) was accused of conversing with Covenanting fugitives.

It’s not inconceivable that Nicola Sturgeon’s ancestors may have moved to Ulster to enjoy greater religious freedom during  the 1680s when the South West of Scotland was a dangerous place for Covenanters. Perhaps we shall never know.

Reiver Families of Liddesdale and Canonbie in 1630

I’ve often seen it suggested that what with the wholesale hanging of reivers in the years following 1605 and the considerable exodus of reiver names to the Ulster Plantation after 1609, that areas like Liddesdale and the Debateable Lands of Canonbie were radically changed in the years that followed. And indeed most of the killing, plundering, blackmail and moonlight riding did stop. But what if we were able to see what families were living there in place of the reivers some twenty years later ?

By 1621, the Earl of Buccleuch had acquired pretty much all of Canonbie and much of Liddesdale. And thanks to the historical rental records of the Buccleuch estates we can see exactly who was tenanting all their farms in Liddesdale and Canonbie as early as 1630. I have transcribed the information as best as I can and the results may surprise you. The rental lists are shown in the two links below.

Liddesdale farm rentals in 1630

Canonbie farm rentals in 1630

In Liddesdale you can see that it’s pretty much all Armstrongs and  Ellotts with some Crosers , Nixons and Hendersons

In Canonbie it’s Armstrongs, Irvings and Bells with a few Grahams, Beatties and Littles for good measure. So pretty much the same mix of names that would have been found 30 years earlier.

What’s also noticeable is a smattering of the most infamous reiver families live on – there’s no less than 3 sons of Kinmont Willie and also Lancie Armstrong of Whithaugh. There’s a Clement and a Quentin Croser – definite echoes of their distinctively named reiver forebears.

For some families at least tenanting under  Buccleuch estate management  brought stability and longevity. My own family were Buccleuch tenants in Canonbie for at least 250 years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Canonbie Militia List – 1802

Following on from my last post regarding the militia lists for Roxburghshire in 1802,  I have found the following information which was transcribed by R.A.Shannon and made available in the Covenant and Hearth series Vol VIII in 1973 available in the Ewart Library in Dumfries.

The original data was taken from the Lieutenancy minutes for the sub-division of Eskdale under the terms of the Militia act 1797. This originally required that a record was made of eligible men in the parish from age 19-23, although by 1802 this had been extended upwards to age 45.

This can be considered as a census substitute for Canonbie parish in Dumfriesshire with all men aged 19-45 in Canonbie parish in 1802.  The third person on this list is my own great great great great grandfather who would have been 39 or 40 at the time.

Surname Forename Location Occupation
Anderson Jas. Woodhouselees carpenter
Armstrong Abel Callsyde clogger
Armstrong Andrew Garden of Glenzier farmer
Armstrong Andrew Loaning labourer
Armstrong Chas Garden of Glenzier farmer
Armstrong Christopher Brockwoodlees farmer
Armstrong Francis Bankhead farmer
Armstrong Fergus Cornerhouse innkeeper
Armstrong Francis Hollis clogger
Armstrong Geo Priorhill farmer
Armstrong Henry Greenrigg servant
Armstrong Jas. Catcleughead farmer
Armstrong Jas. Shillingmoss servant
Armstrong Jas. Sykesyde farmer
Armstrong Jas. Hollishillyett insane
Armstrong John Priorhill farmer
Armstrong John Knowhead farmer
Armstrong John Hairlawhagg farmer
Armstrong John Greenburn farmer
Armstrong John Parkhouse weaver
Armstrong Jas. Callsyde labourer
Armstrong John & John Callsyde weavers
Armstrong John Forge servant
Armstrong John Blackrigg farmer
Armstrong John Glenzierbecknow farmer
Armstrong John Woodhouselees gardener
Armstrong John Woodhouse labourer
Armstrong John Tinnishall servant
Armstrong Joseph Grinstonhead joiner
Armstrong Richard Byreburnfoot blacksmith
Armstrong Richard Pinglebridge labourer
Armstrong Richard Crossdykes
Armstrong Robt. Rowanburnfoot labourer
Armstrong Robt. Blackrigg farmer
Armstrong Thos Knowhead farmer
Armstrong Wm Todknowhead collier
Armstrong Wm Hairlawhole servant
Armstrong Wm Boglehillhead shoemaker
Armstrong Wm Parkhouse weaver
Armstrong Wm Bogglehillhead labourer
Armstrong Wm Glenzierbecknow farmer
Armstrong Wm Garden of Glenzier farmer
Armstrong Wm Grinstonehead weaver
Armstrong Wm Watchill cooper
Ashcrofts Jas. Woodhouslees carpenter
Ashcrofts John Bogilhill collier
Arskine Wm Forgebraehead labourer
Barclay Alexr. Glenzierbecknow weaver
Barclay Francis Glenzierbecknow weaver
Barclay Geo Old Woodhead collier
Beattie Andrew Toomshielburn saddler
Beattie Andrew Hughsrigg farmer
Beattie Francis Tarcoon labourer
Beattie Jas. Parkhall shepherd
Beattie Jas. Greenbraehead farmer
Beattie Jas. Tarcoon labourer
Beattie Jas. Toomshielburn farmer
Beattie Jas. Tower of Sark servant
Beattie Jas. Glenzierhead labourer
Beattie John Padgenrigg labourer
Beattie John Tarcoon labourer
Beattie John Barngliesh labourer
Beattie Richard Greenrigg farmer
Beattie Robt. Tower of Sark servant
Beattie Thos Toomshielburn saddler
Beattie Walter Toomshielburn saddler
Beattie Wm Thornywhatts farmer
Beattie Wm Tarcoon farmer
Bell Adam Grayrigg collier
Bell Arthur Hecks taylor
Bell David Boholm merchant
Bell Francis Andrewsknows labourer
Bell Francis Brickiln taylor
Bell Geo Drybrow farmer
Bell John Mumbyhurst farmer
Bell John Broadridline servant
Bell John Glenzierbecknow cooper
Bell Thos Hagg joiner
Bell Thos Hollishillyett private teacher
Bell Wm Mumbyhirst farmer
Bell Wm Glenzierbecknow weaver
Bevers Robt. Blackrigg servant
Brason Robt. Longraw collier
Brown Andrew Callside weaver
Brown John Callside weaver
Brown Wm Glenzierbecknow weaver
Brockbank John Sillybush weaver
Brockbank Wm Byreburnside merchant
Burges Jas. Hallgreen joiner
Byers Chas Boag servant
Byers Robt. Howgillcleugh servant
Cairns Thos Enthorn farmer
Calvert Jasin Orchard labourer
Carruthers Francis Ryehills farmer
Carruthers Jas. Mossknow farmer
Carruthers Walter Ryehills mason
Clark Adam Tailhead farmer
Clark Geo Callside cooper
Clark John Callside cooper
Clark Michael Callside taylor
Clark Walter Tailhead taylor
Clark Wm Callside weaver
Dalgliesh Adam Woodhouslees collier
Davidson Jas. Barngliesh shepherd
Davidson John Hewsrigg weaver
Davidson John Glenzierfoot farmer
Davidson Matthew Callside weaver
Davidson Robt. Bochlin weaver
Davidson Robt. Glenzierfoot farmer
Davidson Wm Glenzierfoot farmer
Dickson John Toomshielburn farmer
Dickson Simon Barngliesh farmer
Douglas Thos Closses collier
Edgar John Rowanburnfoot farmer
Edgar Richard Boatbankhead labourer
Elliot Andrew Broomyknow collier
Elliot Gilbert Greenbraehead labourer
Elliot Jas. Bograw clogger
Elliot John Bograw farmer
Elliot John Crookholm labourer
Elliot Joseph Hairlawhill
Elliot Robt. Broomyknow farmer
Elliot Robt. Glenzierhead collier
Elliot Robt. Bogilgell blacksmith
Elliot Robt. Hairlawhill farmer
Elliot Thos Bograw blacksmith
Elliot Thos Glenzierhead labourer
Elliot Wm Crookholm farmer
Elliot Wm Archerbeck servant
Ferguson Thos Whitlawside servant
Ferguson Duke Todilwood spirit dealer
Foster Thos Archerbeckburnside labourer
Foster Thos Hillbeck weaver
French Robert Broadmeadows labourer
Gass Wm Grainhead farmer
Gledstanes Jas. Newton mason
Glendinning Edward Broomyknow labourer
Glendinning John Claygate shoemaker
Graham David Hollis miller
Graham Francis Garden labourer
Graham Geo Claygate weaver
Graham John Boholm shoemaker
Graham Peter Greenknow farmer
Graham Robt. Greenknow farmer
Graham Wm Milnsteads farmer
Graham Wm Whiteknow farmer
Grant Alexr. Byreburnside farmer
Grieve Andrew Canonbymuir joiner
Grieve John Watchill collier
Halliday Wm Canonby Manse servant
Heatley Adam Albeyrigg servant
Hill David Tarrasfoot farmer
Hill David Tarcoon farmer
Hill Walter Tarrasfoot merchant
Hogg Andrew Tarcoon joiner
Hogg Edward Mumbyhurst labourer
Hogg Francis Mumbyhurst farmer
Hogg Jas. Tarcoon
Hogg John Tarcoon farmer
Hogg John Hardenside farmer
Hogg Robt. Hardenside labourer
Hogg Robt. Canonbymill labourer
Hogg Walter Albierigg joiner
Hope John Loophill farmer
Hope John Hollis weaver
Hope Peter Brockwoodlees servant
Hope Wm Beeholm collier
Howatson Hugh Enthorn taylor
Howatson John Claygate mason
Hutton John Auchenrivock farmer
Hutton John Knottyholm labourer
Hyslop John Crofhead farmer
Hyslop Simon Kerr farmer
Irving Andrew Battleknow farmer
Irving David Glenzierbecknow farmer
Irving Edward Bograw farmer
Irving Geo Glenzierbecknow farmer
Irving Geo Bograw farmer
Irving John Hawkshill farmer
Irving Wm Canonbymuir farmer
Irving Wm Hagg farmer
Jackson Wm Lymicleuch labourer
Jackson Wm Glenzierhall weaver
Jardine Joseph Jardinehall weaver
Johnston Andrew Toomshielburn servant
Johnston Andrew Glenzierbecknow weaver
Johnston Christopher Grainhead farmer
Johnston John Hollis slater
Johnston Robt. Hollis joiner
Johnston Robt. Woodhouselees gardener
Johnston Wm Hallgreen weaver
Johnston Wm Andrewsknows collier
Kein Wm Hagg joiner
Kerr Jas. Perterburn servant
Kirkpatrick Thos Barngliesh servant
Knox John Brickiln joiner
Knox Thos Priorlinn servant
Lamb John Barrascroft servant
Lamonby Robt. Whiteknow collier
Lattimer Robt. Hollis mason
Lawson Andrew Whiteknow labourer
Lawson Jas. Broadridline labourer
Lawson Walter Broadridline mason
Leishman David Longraw weaver
Leishman John Todknowhead collier
Linton Robt. Blinkbonny weaver
Lithgow John Midtown of Glenzier weaver
Little Alexr. Canonbymuir weaver
Little Andrew Tarrasfoot farmer
Little Chas Thornywhatts farmer
Little David Hairlawhill labourer
Little Geo Rispysike collier
Little Geo Garden farmer
Little Jas. Garden mason
Little Jas. Canonbymuir labourer
Little Jas (jnr) Beckhall farmer
Little John Barrascroft farmer
Little John Crookholm farmer
Little John Whiteknow farmer
Little John Priorhill joiner
Little John Shorthsholm merchant
Little John Beckhall farmer
Little Lewis Priorhill blacksmith
Little Richard Lymiecleuch merchant
Little Robt. Crookholm farmer
Little Robt. Canonbymuir joiner
Little Thos Canonbymuir labourer
Little Walter Woodhouslees blacksmith
Little Wm Rowanburnfoot servant
Little Wm Knowhead clogger
Little Wm Crookholm farmer
Loard Jas. Glenzierfoot labourer
Lockhart Jas. Canonbymuir carter
McCorkindale Alex Thornywhatts farmer
McDowall John Callside weaver
McGlasson Christopher Shortsholm labourer
McGlasson John Closses labourer
McGlasson Thos Closses weaver
McGlasson Wm Closses collier
McKie Alex Grainhead taylor
McVane Peter Padgenrigg blacksmith
Martin Jas. Callside weaver
Martin John Milnsteads farmer
Martin Matthew Callside weaver
Martin Robt. Milnsteads farmer
Martin Wm Callside cooper
Maxwell Geo Priorlinn farmer
Maxwell Othello Priorlinn Servant – black
Maxwell Wm Crowsknow farmer
Moffat John Priorhill joiner
Murray Andrew Byreburnfoot blacksmith
Murray Christopher Todknowhead labourer
Murray David Forgebraehead blacksmith
Murray David Mearburnfoot shepherd
Murray Gideon Callside carter
Murray Jas. Canonbymuir merchant
Murray Jas. Boholm shoemaker
Murray John Byreburnfoot bankman
Murray Robert Brickbarn surgeon
Murray Thos Boholm shoemaker
Murray Wm Bullmansknow Tollbar keeper
Murray Wm Glenzierhead farmer
Nicol David Eskbank surgeon
Nicol Wm Lymiecleuch collier
Nicol Wm Glebefieldhouse cooper
Nicol Wm Perterburn joiner
Oliver John Newoodhead servant
Oliver Wm Priorhill collier
Pott Jas. Midlerigg labourer
Purvis Wm Jockshill labourer
Rae Arthur Callside weaver
Rae Robert Callside weaver
Riddell Robt. Broadmeadows clogger
Robson Geo Glenzierhall farmer
Rome John Tinnishall farmer
Rule Alexander Archerbeck shoemaker
Scoon Francis Catsbit carter
Scoon John Crookholm labourer
Scoon John Callside drover
Scoon Robt. Catsbit collier
Scott Adam Shillingmoss farmer
Scott David Glenzierbecknow weaver
Scott Gideon Boag servant
Scott Jas. Forgebraehead labourer
Scott John Callside mason
Scott John Crookholm farmer
Scott John Broadmeadows labourer
Scott Thos Woodhouse clogger
Scott Walter Archerbeck labourer
Scott Wm Bankhead farmer
Sommerville Archbd. New woodhead mason
Sommerville John Glencartholm farmer
Sommerville Walter Glencartholm farmer
Steel Richard Closses farmer
Swan Adam Forge servant
Taylor James Jockshill farmer
Taylor Wm Knittyholm charcoal burner
Telfer Jas. Broomyknow collier
Telfer John Lodge farmer
Telfer John Tail weaver
Telfer John Brockwoodlees labourer
Telfer Thos Tail weaver
Thomson Gillford Longraw labourer
Thomson John Whiteknow farmer
Thomson Peter Loaning collier
Thomson Richard Enthorn farmer
Ward Francis Broomyknow labourer
Ward Jas. Broomyknow farmer
Warwick Andrew Slacks fish hook dresser
Warwick Andrew Tinnishall servant
Warwick John Grindstonehead joiner
Warwick John Hecks farmer
Warwick Wm Chappelhill farmer
Watt John Priorhill joiner
Watt Joseph Callside clogger
Waugh Andrew Andrewsknows farmer
Waugh George Ladyhousesteads farmer
Waugh John Ladyhousesteads farmer
Wightman Arthur Mossknow servant
Wightman John Smithysike labourer
Wylie James Woodhouselees servant
Wylie Richard Closses collier
Wylie Wm Byreburnside collier
Young Wm Milltown of Sark weaver