Unfortunately, this facility has now gone, as you can see from the logon page. It was, however, great while it lasted! Tom Thomson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Fallon-Cousins" <pfallonc@btinternet.com> To: <DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:33 PM Subject: [D-G LIST] Times Online > > Hi All, > > On another list (Cumberland) are transcribing various newspapers and I have found a great deal of info from them. The Times currently have a free trial at the following website:- > > http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/free4_tda > > Password is "Trial" > > A couple of interesting articleas for Annan:- > > The Times, Monday, Jun 23, 1823; pg. 3; Issue 11905; col A > > On the 16th instant, as a young couple from Longtown were returning from the temple of Hymen at Annan in a post chaise, accompanied by another female and 3 young men, the carriage, which was proceeding rapidly through > the village of Dornock, was, by the rashness of the driver, overturned. The bride who unfortunately sat on the side of the chaise which came to the ground with her arm hanging out the window, was much injured; her ar > m was dreadfully lacerated, but no bones were broken. Medical aid was speedly obtained from Annan, through the exertions of Mr B JOHNSTONE of Dornock; and indeed the whole of the villagers present evinced much concern > for th ewelfare of the fair traveller. -- Dumfries Courier. > > ................ > > The Times, Wednesday, May 13, 1835; pg. 7; Issue 15789; col D > > The people of Annan were on Friday last put into a state of much consternation by a fatal accident which occured the night before. Mr John HUDDART, tenant of Violetbank-mill belonging to Mr IRVING, of Newbie, having b > enn at market on Thursday, was detained on business until a late hour and returned homeward about 11 o'clock, rather the worse for liquor - a circumstance with him very uncommon. Not appearing by the time expected, se > arch for him was made by his family next morning, when he was found drowned in the river Annan, nearly opposite the moat. The deceased bore a very high character as an honest, industrious, and sober man. He has left > a widow and 5 young children. He had a son drowned some years before at Redkirk, on th eborder, the mill of which he tenanted at the time. -- Carlisle Journal. > > > ....................... > > The Times, Wednesday, Aug 20, 1851; pg. 7; Issue 20885; col A > Fatal Accident Off Annan Waterfoot. > > Fatal Accident Off Annan Waterfoot. A melancholy boat accident occured off Annan Waterfoot last Saturday afternoon by which 4 persons lost their lives. Shortly after 5 o'clock Joseph BROUGH, boatman at Annan Waterfoo > t, and late of Battle-Hill left Port Carlisle with the following passengers. Mr SCOTT, draper of Annan, and Mrs SCOTT his wife; Mr Anthony NELSON and Mr Walter PARK, also Drapers of Annan; and an agricultural servant > named BECK. When opposite Seafield the boat came in contact with one of the fishing nets lying there and capsized, the whole party being thrown out of it. Nelson and Park seized hold of the net and hung by it until > they were rescued by some persons in a boat from Seafield, but the 4 namely, BROUGH, the boatman, Mr SCOTT and his wife and BECK were unfortunately drowned. The body of Beck was washed ashore on the Scotch side on Sat > urday night and that of Mrs Scott at high water on Sunday, but up to Monday morning the bodies of Mr Scott and Brough had not been recovered. All the party except Beck, had been at Port Carlisle on Business and he wa > s returning with them to see some relatives at Annan. It is said that they had remained beyond the proper time for departur, the tide having ebbed considerably, and thus rendered th epassage of the nets dangerous. Br > ough was well known by the name of "Bishop Brough" he having married some hundreds of persons according to the rites of the Scotch church. He was an experienced and trustworthy oarman and had plied to and from Port C > arlisle for ? ? 40? years. > > ............................. > > The Times, Friday, Sep 22, 1837; pg. 1; Issue 16528; col F > > On the 13th inst. Mr. Matthew BELL, of Rammerscales, near Lochmaben, accompanied by his nephew, Mr. M'DONALD were proceeding from his house at Rammerscales in a phaeton driven by a servant when the horse took fright an > d having become unmanageable upset the phaeton. In the fall Mr Bell had his skull fractured and was much cut about his face, and we regret to state that he survived the accident only about an hour. The other gentlem > en and servant were only slightly injured. Mr Bell was upward of > 30? years of age and his decease is deeply deplored. -- Dumfries > Times. > > .............................. > > Cheers, > Pam > > > ==== DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Mailing List ==== > FIND YOUR ANCESTORS > http://www.directcon.net/tomas/Ancestry/index.html/