John is not a genealogist and does not usually undertake genealogical work. However, in the course of many years working in the archives, he has accumulated a vast mass of family-history related material. If your enquiry is related to the Stirling area, in the period roughly 1500-1750 and you have firm links to named people or places, then he might be able to help.
Contact John at [email protected]
Contact John at [email protected]
Fossachie and Parkhead, Logie Parish
Fossachie is at the top left above the wood on this distant photo of Dumyat.
An enquiry from New Zealand has encouraged me to draw together some previously unpublished material about these two sites on Dumyat.
There is a wealth of information about their development and their former inhabitants which shows, I think, how and why landscape studies are useful for genealogy.
There is a wealth of information about their development and their former inhabitants which shows, I think, how and why landscape studies are useful for genealogy.
Trees - of one sort or another...
I am told that this tree, planted on a grave in Stirling's Snowdon Cemetery is a variety known as Bloody Ploughman - from its red flesh.
John is contemplating posting some reflections here on genealogy as seen, say from a sixteenth or seventeeth century perspective... We like to think that lineage made for status - but it might also make you vulnerable, if your neighbours knew all about the skeletons as well as the escutcheons! Whoreson. Son of a bitch. You will come to a bad end - like your father before you.
Trees, too, have tales to tell about Scotland's past. So, this page might become a charivari - or even a pot-pourri.....
Trees, too, have tales to tell about Scotland's past. So, this page might become a charivari - or even a pot-pourri.....