>From The Dumfries Weekly Journal 14th February, 1826Sourced by Robert Wells "At Belleville, Stranraer, On Thursday the 26th ult. Miss Maxwell, fourth daughter of the late William Maxwell of Ardwell." "At Wigtown, on the 29th ult. of Hooping-cough, Mary (aged) 21 months, second daughter, and at Newton-Stewart, (w....) she had been removed for a change of air, on the 5th of the same complaint, Janet, Aged 3 years and 4 months....... daughter of Mr William M'Minn, merchant, Wigtown (to) the inexpressible regret of their parents and other near... they were beautiful and most interesting children; and (in) their lives they were most loving, so in their deaths they thus but for a very short space divided." "At Kirkmaiden Manse, on the 20th ultimo, after a....severe indisposition, which he bore with unexampled... and resignation, the Rev. James French, minister of ... parish, in the 44th year of his age, and 9th of his ministry." Diana Henry