Hi found this info regardings Drysdale in a film thought it may be of help to Drysdale researchers. Ref History of Clackmannan Film 0257825 Regards Jenny .."Thomas, William and James Douglas sons of the departed Thomas Douglas of Brushwood-Haugh, in the parih of Drysdale and shire of Dumfries, left our native place for the reason here assigned, viz: Defening our just and lawful rights agains our unjust neighbour, Johnstone of Greenstone-hill, who being determined to bring water to his mill through our property, and having obtained leave of his friend the king, began his operations on Monday the 16th May. We prevented him by force. The next day he brought twenty of his vassals ot carry on the work. We, with two friends and three servants (eight in all), attacked Johnstone with his twenty: and in the contest fourteen of his men were killed, along with their base leader." Anyway the result was that they ran away and hid for 2 years and returned home in disguise to find their property in the possesion of Johnstone's friends and a reward offered for their lives.. "We having purchased a samall shot called the Haugh of Dollar, and changed our names to the name of our native parish, and ar clearly in mind to spend the residue of our days under the ope of the Ochils, and wish the name of Drysdale to flourish in the lonely valley." .."the descendants of those three brothers Douglas (now known by the name of Drysdale), and copied first by Symon Drysdale, of the Haugh of Dollar, in the year 1620, by Robert Drysdale, of Tillicoultry, in 1708, and renewed at differed times since then."