What is the connection between Hermitage Castle and Hermitage farm? Is this the same place? Cathie in Canada -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: December-31-11 3:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Digest, Vol 6, Issue 151 Today's Topics: 1. Re: HERMITAGE, SPOTTES ? (Stanley Walker) 2. Re: HERMITAGE, SPOTTES ? (Bruce McDowall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:24:39 -0000 From: "Stanley Walker" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] HERMITAGE, SPOTTES ? To: "'Les Hewett'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" The settlement of Hermitage is in the Parish of Urr, as is Spottes Hall and Spottes Burn and Glen http://www.scottish-places.info/parishes/pardetails1042.html Hermitage farm is north of Haugh of Urr http://bit.ly/rQCD9U And is visible here http://g.co/maps/r5dce Kind regards Stanley -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Les Hewett Sent: 28 December 2011 12:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] HERMITAGE, SPOTTES ? Can any lister tell us about (The) Hermitage (farm/house?) at/of Spottres? What's at Spottes? Possible family member Margaret Duff there in 1851 census. Any info. appreciated: Les and Gloria, Napier, NZ. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:51:21 +1100 From: Bruce McDowall <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] HERMITAGE, SPOTTES ? To: Stanley Walker <[email protected]> Cc: Les Hewett <[email protected]>, [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]om> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 According to M'Kerlie, Lands and Their Owners in Galloway, Vol 5, published 1876, the farm of Hermitage was part of the Spottes Estate. This sits well with the census description "Hermitage of Spottes". http://www.archive.org/stream/historylandsand00unkngoog#page/n322/mode/2up Regards, Bruce On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Stanley Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > The settlement of Hermitage is in the Parish of Urr, as is Spottes > Hall and Spottes Burn and Glen > http://www.scottish-places.info/parishes/pardetails1042.html > > Hermitage farm is north of Haugh of Urr http://bit.ly/rQCD9U > > And is visible here > http://g.co/maps/r5dce > > Kind regards > > Stanley > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Les > Hewett > Sent: 28 December 2011 12:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] HERMITAGE, SPOTTES ? > > Can any lister tell us about (The) Hermitage (farm/house?) at/of Spottres? > What's at Spottes? Possible family member Margaret Duff there in 1851 > census. Any info. appreciated: Les and Gloria, Napier, NZ. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ To contact the DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Digest, Vol 6, Issue 151 *************************************************