Archive for January, 2012
Alexander Peden’s Cave in the Cleuch Glen and Sorn Castle, Ayrshire
• January 30, 2012 • 7 CommentsPosted in Abjuration oath, Alexander Peden, Auchencloigh, Auchmannoch, Ayrshire, Covenanters, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons, History, Lieutenant Lewis Lauder, Peden's Cave (Auchinbay), Peden's Cave (Craigie), Peden's Cave (Sorn), Sorn, Sorn Castle, Sorn parish
Tags: Alexander Peden, Ayrshire, Caves, Covenanters, History, Scotland, Scottish History, Sorn, Sorn Castle
The Wrong Man: The Shooting of Auchenleck by Captain Douglas at Carlingwark in Galloway in 1685.
• January 28, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in ------- Mowat (d.1685), -------- Auchenleck (d.1685), 1685, Balgreddan, Buittle parish, Captain Thomas Douglas, Carlingwark, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Galloway, Kelton parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Mar's Regiment of Foot, Robert M'Whae (d.1685), Scotland
Tags: Castle Douglas, Covenanters, Galloway, History, Killing Times, Martyrs, Mote of Urr, Scotland, Scottish History
Captain Douglas, the Killing Times in Galloway and the Mysterious Martyrs known as Mowat and M’Whae
• January 27, 2012 • 5 CommentsPosted in ------- Mowat (d.1685), Balmaghie parish, Borgue parish, Captain Thomas Douglas, Cavers parish, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Dragoons, Galloway, Girthon parish, Kirkandrews, Kirkcudbrightshire, Mar's Regiment of Foot, Robert M'Whae (d.1685), Scotland, Scottish History, Tongland parish, Twynholm parish, William Douglas of Cavers
Tags: Covenanters, Galloway, Gatehouse of Fleet, History, Kirkcudbright, Martyrs, Scotland, Scottish History
The Killings of the Black Clauchrie, Killoup Wood and Half Merk Covenanters
• January 26, 2012 • 9 CommentsPosted in 1685, Anonymous, Ayrshire, Barr parish, Black Clauchrie, Camregan, Carrick, Carsphairn parish, Dailly parish, Garryhorn, George Martin (d.1684), Half Merk, John Stevenson (Camregan), Killoup Wood, Kirkcudbrightshire, Robert Grierson of Lag
Tags: Ayrshire, Black Clauchrie, Britain, British History, Carsphairn, Covenanters, History, Scotland, Scottish History
Shot at Strathaven: The Mystery of William Paterson the Executed Cambusnethan Covenanter
• January 25, 2012 • 10 CommentsPosted in 1685, 1832, Banishment, Cambusnethan parish, Captain-Lt John Bell, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Covenanters' Oak, Dalzell House, Dalziel parish, Darmead, Dennis Gillies, Evandale parish, Flanders (1684), Garrion Gill, George Barclay, George Hill, George Jackson, George Scot of Pitlochie, Jamaica, James Forrest (elder), James Forrest (younger), James Gourlay, James Steuart of Goodtrees, John Barrie, John Collin, John Lauder, John Nisbet 1, John Oliphant, Kirkhill, Lanarkshire, Leeuwarden, Lochwinnoch parish, London, Mar's Regiment of Foot, Margaret Forrest, Murrays/Muirhouse, New Jersey, Patrick Walker, Perth Amboy, Reform Movement, Renfrewshire, Robert Gourlay, Robert Hamilton, Robert Langlands, Robert Paterson (d.1680), Rye House Plots, Scotland, Scottish History, Stirling, Stonehouse parish, Strathaven, Thomas Jackson (Eastwood), Thomas Steuart of Coltness, USA, William Brackel, William Paterson, William Vilant
Tags: British History, Covenanters, History, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scottish History, Strathaven, Wishaw
The Covenanter John Dempster and the Killing Times in Carsphairn
• January 24, 2012 • 16 CommentsPosted in 1685, Balmaclellan parish, Carsphairn parish, Covenanters, Dalry parish, Dempster's Stone, Galloway, Garryaird, Garryhorn, Glenkens, Holy Linn, John Dempster (1685?), Kells parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Meaul, Robert Grierson of Lag, Thomas Verner
Tags: Britain, British History, Carsphairn, Covenanters, Galloway, Hillwalking, History, Scotland, Scottish History
The Cambusnethan Covenanter Killed at Airds Moss in 1680
• January 21, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1680, Airdsmoss, Ayrsmoss, Cambusnethan parish, Carbarns, Coltness, Covenanters, Glasgow, Kirkhill, Lanarkshire, Richard Cameron, Robert Paterson (d.1680), Scotland, Scottish History, Thomas Steuart of Coltness, Walter Paterson (Carbarns), William Paterson
Tags: Airds Moss, Britain, British History, Covenanters, History, Scotland, Scottish History, Wishaw
