Archive for the 'River Ayr' Category
The Killing of William Shillilaw by Dragoons near Tarbolton
• March 6, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1685, Ayrshire, Captain 'Major' George Winram, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Daniel Defoe, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons, Lieutenant Lewis Lauder, Lieutenant-Colonel Buchan, Ochiltree parish, River Ayr, Scotland, Sorn Castle, Stairaird, Tarbolton parish, William Shillilaw (d.1685), Woodhead (Tarbolton)
Tags: Ayrshire, Covenanters, History, Martyrs, Ochiltree, River Ayr, Scotland, Scottish History, Tarbolton
Alexander Peden’s Last Preaching at Coilsholm Wood and Peden’s Cove near Failford
• January 16, 2012 • 4 CommentsPosted in 1685, 1686, Alexander Peden, Ayrshire, Coilsholm Wood, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Peden's Cove (Failford), River Ayr, Scotland, Scottish History, Tarbolton parish
Tags: Alexander Peden, Ayrshire, Covenanters, Failford, History, River Ayr, River Ayr Way, Scotland, Scottish History
William Adam: The Wanderer at Wellwood
• October 11, 2010 • 6 CommentsPosted in 1685, Alexander Jamieson, Alexander Peden, Andrew Hislop, Annandale, Ayrshire, Britain, British History, Canongate Tolbooth, Captain John Dalziel, Carsgailoch Hill, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Croftfoot, Crofthead, Dalveen, Daniel McMichael, Dragoons, Dumfriesshire, Dunnottar Castle, Durisdeer parish, earl of Carnwath, Edinburgh, Fugitive Roll of 1684, George Barclay, Glenae, Greenock, Highlanders, History, James Johnstone of Westerhall, James Renwick, James Smith, John Binning, John Brown (Blackwood), John Brown of Priesthill, John Browning, John Campbell of Over Welwood, John Cochran of Ochiltree, John Cochrane of Waterside, John Fullerton, John Graham of Claverhouse, John Smith in Cronan, Killing Times, Kirkmichael parish, Lieutenant Murray, Lieutenant Straiton, martyrdom, Martyrs, Mauchline parish, Midwellwood, Muirkirk, Muirkirk parish, Nova Scotia, Peter Gillies, Priesthill, River Ayr, Robert Langlands, Scotland, Scottish History, Scottish parliament, Stanhope, Thomas Richard, Upper Wellwood, Virginia, William Adam, William Campbell of Wellwood, William Cleland
Tags: Ayrshire, Covenanters, History, Killing Times, Martyrs, Muirkirk, Scotland, Scottish History, Virginia
The Double Life of Thomas Richard
• October 5, 2010 • 7 CommentsPosted in 05 convention, 1685, Alexander Gordon of Earlstoun, Ayrshire, Biography, Britain, British History, Burnfoot, Captain John Inglis, Colonel James Douglas, Cornet Peter Inglis, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Cumnock, Dragoons, Edinburgh, Glenbuck, Greenock, Greenock Water, History, James Edward, James Irvine of Bonshaw, James Renwick, James Russell, John Brown of Priesthill, John Campbell of Over Welwood, John Richard (Burnfoot), Killing Times, Midwellwood, Muirkirk, Muirkirk parish, Newmilns, Newmilns Tower, Priesthill, River Ayr, Scotland, Scottish History, Thomas Edward, Thomas Richard, Upper Wellwood, William Campbell of Wellwood
Tags: Ayrshire, Covenanters, History, John Campbell in Wellwood, Midwellwood, Muirkirk, Scotland, Scottish History, Upper Wellwood