I have been doing nothing this morning but footering about looking on the net for anything that comes to mind that I had said to myself at some point, “I must look that up.”
I came in mind of the place where Granny died and can’t find a picture of the big house or any of the cottages nearby. I did find this article which has me intrigued. I can only read the first paragraph without subscribing. Can anybody get the whole article?
Many thanks.
PS Granny died in one of the cottages rather than the big house, we are not from well off stock LOL. Another link led me to the fact that Quarrelwood House was last sold for just shy of £500,000 in 2009. Oooff!
The blood curdling history of Quarrelwood House
The quiet location of Quarrelwood House in a bowl of Dumfries belies its violent history
Tim Dawson
Sunday May 04 2008, 1.00am, The Sunday Times
He was known as "the son of thunder". He defied kings, denounced bishops and ultimately went to his death for his belief in man's individual contract with God. The Covenanter Richard Cameron was considered so dangerous a religious extremist that when he was killed in 1680, his head and hands were severed from his dead body and exhibited in Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
So it's perhaps curious that his followers - a battle-hardened bunch who would walk for days to attend week-long preaching sessions - should have erected a chapel in such a vale of tranquillity.
I came in mind of the place where Granny died and can’t find a picture of the big house or any of the cottages nearby. I did find this article which has me intrigued. I can only read the first paragraph without subscribing. Can anybody get the whole article?
Many thanks.
PS Granny died in one of the cottages rather than the big house, we are not from well off stock LOL. Another link led me to the fact that Quarrelwood House was last sold for just shy of £500,000 in 2009. Oooff!
The blood curdling history of Quarrelwood House
The quiet location of Quarrelwood House in a bowl of Dumfries belies its violent history
Tim Dawson
Sunday May 04 2008, 1.00am, The Sunday Times
He was known as "the son of thunder". He defied kings, denounced bishops and ultimately went to his death for his belief in man's individual contract with God. The Covenanter Richard Cameron was considered so dangerous a religious extremist that when he was killed in 1680, his head and hands were severed from his dead body and exhibited in Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
So it's perhaps curious that his followers - a battle-hardened bunch who would walk for days to attend week-long preaching sessions - should have erected a chapel in such a vale of tranquillity.
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