Sorry folks,  I made a mistake in my earlier e-mail.  The Old Mortality sculptures in Balmacclellan are now in the D&G Towns Tour on www.imchad.freeola.com My memory doesn't serve me as well as it did a few years ago. I have upload so many photos in past years that I forget where they all are. The Newton Stewart sculptures of Old Mort are in the grounds of the old church which is now a museum.  Cheers Sandy in Dumfries --- On Tue, 6/7/10, sandy stevenson <sandyahbs@btinternet.com> wrote: From: sandy stevenson <sandyahbs@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] 'Walter Scott's 'Old Mortality' Caerlaverock Churchyard To: "Sandy PITTENDREIGH" <sypittdg@btinternet.com>, DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY@rootsweb.com, "Dave and Anna Whitehouse" <daveandannaw@clear.net.nz> Date: Tuesday, 6 July, 2010, 22:52 Sandy is that the old Penninghame cemetery in Newton Stewart or the other one near the A75 on the Stranraer side of town?  Sandy (Glentrool) From: Sandy PITTENDREIGH <sypittdg@btinternet.com> To: DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY@rootsweb.com; Dave and Anna Whitehouse <daveandannaw@clear.net.nz> Sent: Tuesday, 6 July, 2010 22:19:37 Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] 'Walter Scott's 'Old Mortality' Caerlaverock Churchyard Hi Dave and Anna, Go to my website on D&G graveyards at: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dfsgal/ View my photo trour of CAERLAVEROCK for a deatailed photograph of Robert Paterson's gravestone.  Also look at Balmaclennan and Newton Stewart for further photos relating to Old Mortality.   Regards, Sandy in Dumfries   - On Tue, 6/7/10, Dave and Anna Whitehouse <daveandannaw@clear.net.nz> wrote: From: Dave and Anna Whitehouse <daveandannaw@clear.net.nz> Subject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] 'Walter Scott's 'Old Mortality' Caerlaverock Churchyard To: DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, 6 July, 2010, 8:36 Greetings listers., My wife and I have just returned from a 3 month holiday in the UK. Part of the trip involved following up for our family tree, the history of Sir Walter Scott's character 'Old Mortality'. We have just received a series of notes which gave us the final clue as to his burial place, unfortunately too late for us to visit. 'Old Mort' was a direct-line ancestor, one Robert Paterson, who died in 1801 and is buried in Caerlaverock Churchyard. He spent 35 years of his life cleaning and making sure that the gravestones of the Covenanters martyrs would not be forgotten, such was his faith in their cause. A. E. Truckell, MBE., MA Edin.  in 1975 wrote at length on the 'Old Mortality' statuary group in Dumfries Museum. He also mentions "....and it was (Sir Walter) Scott who erected the tombstone to Paterson that can still be seen in Caerlaverock Churchyard today" This would be literally the last piece of the jig-saw for us on the life and times of Robert Paterson. We have accumulated a very large data-base on not only Robert but also all the descendants (including Nathaniel Paterson his grandson who was ordained in Galashiels in 1824) and then all the way down to the present family in New Zealand. Is there anyone in the Dumfries area who may be close enough to the Caerlaverock Churchyard and who may know of this tombstone who would be willing to take a digital photo of same for us and email the image to us in New Zealand ? I can assure you our cup would runneth over in delight.. Kind regards Dave and Anna (Paterson) Whitehouse Warkworth, New Zealand ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com 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 DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message