Archive for the '1832' Category
A Bullet From The General: The Shooting of Adam Macquhan by a Hero of the Battle of the Boyne
• April 27, 2012 • 8 CommentsPosted in 1685, 1832, Adam Macquhan (d.1685), Caldons, Colonel James Douglas, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Galloway, Glenkens, His Majesty's Regiment of Foot Guards, Kells parish, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbright parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, McWhann's Stone, Minnigaff parish, New Galloway, Scotland, Scottish History
Tags: Battle of the Boyne, Covenanters, Galloway Forest Park, Glen Trool, History, New Galloway, Scotland, Scottish History, Southern Upland Way
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
From His Cold, Dead Hands…
• September 25, 2010 • 6 CommentsPosted in 1685, 1820, 1820 Society, 1832, Ayrshire, Biography, Britain, Cairntable, Captain John Inglis, Charles II, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Dragoons, East Kilbride, Evandale parish, History, James II, James VII & II, James White, James Wilson, John Barrie, John Smith in Cronan, Kilbride parish, Killing Times, Lanarkshire, Little Blackwood, Loudoun parish, martyrdom, Martyrs, Newlands, Newmilns, Newmilns Tower, Peter Inglis, Radicalism, Radicals, Reform Movement, Scotland, Scottish History, Strathaven, Thomas Richard, William Paterson
Tags: 1820 Society, Ayrshire, Britain, Covenanters, Dragoons, East Kilbride, History, Martyrs, Newmilns, Scotland, Scottish History, Strathaven