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Not truthful...?

14/9/2017

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This month we’ve heard from a new member Peter Carolin looking for Wilson connections.  He writes: 
My great grandfather, James Burns, was born by Loch Trool, at The Stroan, in 1855 and later became a bank manager in the Argentine.   His father, also James, a herder, was born in the area in 1825 and married Janet Wilson.   The Wilsons were also herders and lived in Culsharg, apparently for many generations.   Sometime in the 1960s, my grandfather, also James Burns, a shipping manager in Brazil, mentioned Crockett in some notes on the family – of which the following is an extract:
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Sadly, my great-grandfather’s scrap book has not survived.   
Peter Carolin

 
I particularly like the part where the relative writes: 'my grandmother did not consider them truthful'.  It reminds us both that in former days people struggled with accepting historical fiction as a genre, and how personally people can take tales of their own ancestry! 

From the extract it seemed to me the most likely book being referred to was  ‘Men of the Moss Hags’ since the ‘Buchan’ connection seems to link with Glenhead, thus the MacMillans, thus time spent there in 1894/5. And there are Wilsons in that book (including the Wigtown Martyr Margaret Wilson) But if anyone else has other suggestions or knowledge, please do email us or comment below and we’ll pass the information on to Peter.  
Cally

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joe rae
17/10/2017 08:18:23 pm

Hello Peter.
My Grandfather, who stated life as a herd laddie with John MacMillan in 1894 at the Glenhead of Glentrool [he met S.R.Crockett, a friend of the MacMillan family, there] talked of the Wilsons as having been in Culsharg at that time, Culsharg being the highest occupied house in the South of Scotland
I am not sure when they left but they were certainly a long number of years in the Shiel of Castlemaddy prior to WW2.
Shiel of Castlemaddie lay some miles N.E of Backhill of the Bush itself being the furthest out house in S.S., being nine miles from the nearest "made" road all supplies going in on the back of a pony.

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Pewter Carolin
13/1/2018 09:20:07 pm

Thank you, Joe, for this. It's only just been kindly brought to my attention by Cally Wight. It's good to hear of your grandfather's account.

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The Philippine Cooperative Blog link
1/9/2023 03:49:21 am

Thank you for sharing this

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