----- Forwarded Message ---- From: NORMA BELL <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 23 January, 2011 22:49:47 Subject: Fw: Torhousemuir Wigtownshire List ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Norma <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 23 January, 2011 22:34:38 Subject: Torhousemuir Wigtownshire List Dear List.....I have been following with interest the recent subject of Torhouseuir from Guy Colby to Andrea Walker.  We are still busy with our project of the 1881 to 1901 censuses.  'We' being Andrew [Drew] Horner and his wife Sheila who live at Torhousemuir and myself.  Drew is the third generation of Horners' to live there as a crofter.  Our paper work is nearly ready,  the hard part is placing the families to the crofts etc. but the photos are coming along quite well.  In the summer the bracken etc is too high to find any remains of cottages and and in the winter too wet or snowy.  Just can't win. Drew is searching for sites on the quad bike and Sheila and I are studying maps and census returns.  As soon as all this ice and frost go we will be back out with the camera.  Looking forward to getting it all put together.    Norma Bell.