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| digimaze | My visit to Loudoun Kirk in June 2010 | 0 | Sep 21 2011, 3:00 AM EDT by digimaze | ||
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Greetings, I was doing a limited Insight Tour of the UK last year and as luck would have it I had 2 days free in Edinburgh so I hired a car and drove across to visit the birth place of my great great grandfather James Scott Loudon in Shotts. I then visit Loudoun Hill, Loudoun Castle and lastly but not least Loudoun Kirk. I was so impressed with the Kirk, the approach to it and the calming nature of the brook that runs alongside, the tranquil feeling inside the grounds and the excellent work done by FOLK to maintain it so. Well done all !! I have made a video of that trip and it's on my YouTube channel should you wish to see it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIhMbGxQQbM
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| TomCaldwell | continuation | 0 | Jul 26 2010, 8:16 PM EDT by TomCaldwell | ||
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there would only be one contiguous gap in the record - however perhaps there were entires on a page missed. Of course there might simply be no Walker baptisms in the is period or they might not yet be transcribed form an existing record. However there are only two children recorded to Hugh Walker and Helen Campbell of Bentburnbridge and there is at least a Jean Walker and possibly other siblings recorded as dying. It is also significant that Matthew Walker my ancestor was in the army or militia and late in life had a daughter Helen with Anne Laidlaw when posted as a veteran at Fort George, Ardersier. Matthew and Anne returned to Galston when he was a Chelsea Pensioner and their daughter married the second son, Matthew, of John Caldwell and Mary Morton.
Bentburnbridge is the property shown on an old Military map (marked 'ruin') as located just to the north west of the bent-bridge of a burn itself on the "weaver's road" between Newmilns-Darvel and Eaglesham. The Walker family seem to be a large family of weavers centred on Newmilns. Maybe a few young men escaped the Militia Ballot but we might have paid the price as family genealogists. Tom Caldwell |
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| TomCaldwell | Church Records and Militia (Conscription) Ballot Act | 0 | Jul 26 2010, 8:02 PM EDT by TomCaldwell | ||
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Family historians have a lot to grieve over this act. In the very late 1700's working conditions were very poor and the French Revolution inspired many of the working poor to join the United Scotsmen movement which believed that "the emancipation of the country was at no great distance when they should rally round the standard of liberty". Naturally the government thought this seditious. When the government introduced the Militia (Conscription) Ballot Act in 1797 its enforcement triggered off an abortive rising. There were riots in many places including Galston. "At Carstairs, the schoolhouse was burned and the parish registers - used for conscription - were hidden."
I quote from "The Scottish Insurrection of 1820" by PE Ellis and S MacaGhobhainn (John Donald Edinburgh 2001) page 77 I might wonder whether the Loudoun Kirk records simply had a few pages torn out or a whole register disappeared. In researching my Walker family registers via the records on this site I found a solid stream of Walker baptisms between 1699 to 26/8/1740 then a gap of 25 years until John Walker is recorded on 13/3/1765 and Matthew Walker on 31/5/1767 then a further ten year gap until Margaret Waker is recorded baptised on 26/10/1777. Then there is a regular stream of Walker baptisms recorded once more. Gaps in our family record also occur in St Quivox Parish and I have been unable to discover the date or other particulars of the marriage of John Caldwell and Mary Morton in the Galston/Newmilns district in 1799 or 1800. Agnes has previously helped me by advising that John Caldwell was in the militia muster around that time at Galston and perhaps he escaped conscription because he was a married man already. It is interesting that John and Matthew Walker stand out in isolation in the Walker record of Loudoun Kirk as one might think that if a register book was lost in its entirety then |
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