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Barony And Castle Of Corsehill
The old Barony and castle of Corsehill lay within the feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, near Stewarton, now East Ayrshire, Scotland. The Lairds of Corsehill Godfrey de Ross was an early holder of the castle and lands of Corsehill, moving his seat here from the castle at Boarland (also 'Borland') or Dunlop hill. The De Ross family are now represented by the Earls of Glasgow. Andrew Cunningham, second son of William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn, was the first of the House of Corsehill in 1532. In 1532 his father had granted to him the lands of Doura, Potterton, Little Robertland, and the two Corsehills. In 1538 he was also granted ''Cuttiswray, Clarklands, et Hillhouse.''Paterson, Page 590 He was a great supporter of the reform movement and had his lands forfeited, later returned and died in 1545. Cuthbert Cunningham, son of Andrew, inherited and marrieMatilda 'Maud' Cunningham of Aiket Castle He had two sons, Alexander and Patrick, the latter being involved in the murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkmichael, South Ayrshire
Kirkmichael (Gaelic: ''Cille Mhìcheil'', "the church of St Michael") is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland, located between Patna, Maybole and Straiton. It was also a civil parish. In 1991 it had a population of 647. The village Kirkmichael lies east of Maybole and started life as the focus of a well populated rural parish served by its church. Today it is a largely white harled small village set amid the rolling hills of South Ayrshire, a drive south of central Ayr. Its origins date back to the 13th century when John de Gemmelstoun founded a church beside the Dyrock Burn here, which he dedicated to St. Michael. For much of its early life the village was called Kirkmichael of Gemilston, after its founder, but the name was eventually simplified. The village church dates back to 1787 and is a fairly typical T-plan design intended to provide a large number of seats within a fairly small space, all exposed to the full force of the preacher's oratory. The surrounding chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Pont
Rev Timothy Pont (c. 1560–c.1627) was a Scottish minister, cartographer and topographer. He was the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont's maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an actual survey. Life He was the elder son of Robert Pont, a Church of Scotland minister in Edinburgh and Lord of Session (judge), by his first wife, Catherine, daughter of Masterton of Grange. He matriculated as student of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, in 1580, and obtained the degree of M.A. in 1584. He spent the late 1580s and the 1590s travelling throughout Scotland. Between 1601 and 1610 he was the minister of Dunnet Parish Church in Caithness. He took a year's leave in 1608 to map Scotland. He was continued 7 December 1610; but he resigned some time before 1614, when the name of William Smith appears as minister of the parish. On 25 July 1609 Pont had a Royal grant of two thousand acres (8 km²) in connection with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corvus Corax
The common raven (''Corvus corax'') is a large all-black passerine bird. It is the most widely distributed of all corvids, found across the Northern Hemisphere. It is a raven known by many names at the subspecies level; there are at least eight subspecies with little variation in appearance, although recent research has demonstrated significant genetic differences among populations from various regions. It is one of the two largest corvids, alongside the thick-billed raven, and is possibly the heaviest passerine bird; at maturity, the common raven averages in length and in mass. Although their typical lifespan is considerably shorter, common ravens can live more than 23 years in the wild. Young birds may travel in flocks but later mate for life, with each mated pair defending a territory. Common ravens have coexisted with humans for thousands of years and in some areas have been so numerous that people have regarded them as pests. Part of their success as a species is du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Moll
Herman Moll (mid-17th century – 22 September 1732) was a London cartographer, engraver, and publisher. Origin and early life While Moll's exact place and date of birth are unknown, he was probably born in the mid-seventeenth century in Germany or the United Provinces. The earliest extant mention of Moll was made by the natural philosopher Robert Hooke, who recorded in 1678 that Moll was working in London as an engraver. Moll later specialized in engraving maps, and went on to produce maps and globes from his studies of the work of other cartographers. Cartographic work Early years in London Moll probably sold his first maps from a stall in various places in London. From 1688 he had his own shop in Wanley's Court in London's Blackfriars. Between 1691 and 1710 his business was located at the corner of Spring Gardens and Charing Cross, and he finally moved along the River Thames to the Strand where he remained until his death. In the 1690s, Moll worked mainly as an eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lands Of Cocklebie
The Lands of Cocklebie or Cocklebee formed an estate possessing a common border with the estates of Lainshaw, the Corsehill, and the town of Stewarton, East Ayrshire, Parish of Stewarton, Scotland. History The house and estate The 40 shilling lands of Cocklebie with "''manour place, towers, biggings, and yards, in the Barony of Stewarton, Bailiary of Cunninghame, with teinds, parsonage, and vicarage of Cocklebie.''"Lainshaw, Page 2 Cocklebie Meadow recorded. The farm of Cocklebie was part of the Lainshaw Estate in 1873. Cocklebierigg and Cocklebie croft are also recorded. The Farm Horse Tax records for 1797 to 1798 give Alexander Bone as the farmer at Cocklebie with two horses. In the 1645 to 1831 Land Tax Rolls records Cocklebie, Backmure, & Goosehills are valued at £177.1.8 and the propietor is given as the Earl of Kilmarnock. A later valuation gives David Cuninghmae Esq as the propietor of Cocklebie Bakemuir and Goosehills with a valuation of £117.1.8. In 1857 to 1858 Cockle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glencairn Aisle
The Glencairn Aisle or Glencairn Vault at Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire is a vaulted sepulchral chapel built as a place for private contemplation and prayer that also contains a large memorial monument, as well as the burial crypt of the Cunningham Earls of Glencairn and their family members. It houses an exceptional ornately carved stone mural monument dated 1600 that commemorates James Cunningham, the 7th Earl of Glencairn, his countess, Margaret Campbell and eight of their children. It is the oldest such 'Glorious Tomb' monument built in the 17th century in Ayrshire and one of the oldest post-reformation monument in Scotland. The other Ayrshire examples being the Kennedy or Bargany Aisle at Ballantrae of circa 1601, the Skelmorlie Aisle at Largs of 1639, the Crauford Monument at Kilbirnie and the Hamilton Aisle at Dunlop of 1641. The aisle is associated with St Maurs-Glencairn parish church that was dedicated to either the Virgin Mary or St Mora or Maura of Little Cumbrae and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmaurs
Kilmaurs () is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland which lies just outside of the largest settlement in East Ayrshire, Kilmarnock. It lies on the Carmel Water, southwest of Glasgow. Population recorded for the village in the 2001 Census recorded 2,601 people resided in the village It was in the Civil Parish of Kilmaurs. History Kilmaurs was known as the hamlet of Cunninghame until the 13th century.Groome, Francis H. (1903). ''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland.'' Pub. Caxton. London. P. 938.Tranter, Nigel (1965), ''The Fortified House in Scotland. V. 3. South-West Scotland.'' Pub. Oliver & Boyd. P. 40. The population in 1874 was 1,145. Alex Young suggested that the name Kilmaurs comes from the Gaelic meaning Hill of the Great Cairn.Young, Alex F.(2001). Old Kilmaurs and Fenwick. . Young’s suggestion for the Gaelic origins of the placename Kilmaurs is extremely unlikely. Earliest medieval records refer to an early medieval church dedicated to a saint (probably a Saint Maura) c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery-Cuninghame Baronets
The baronetcy of Cuninghame of Corsehill was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and conferred upon Alexander Cuninghame of Corsehill, a Scottish baron and landowner in Dumfriesshire and a great-great-great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Glencairn. The fourth baronet's father added the name Montgomery before his own on inheriting the estate of Kirktonholm. Cuninghame, later Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill baronets, of Corsehill (1672) *Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 1st Baronet (–1685) was the son of Alexander Cuningham and Anne Crawford. He married Mary Stewart. *Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 2nd Baronet (died 1730) married Margaret Boyle and had a daughter, Jean, and a son David. *Sir David Cuninghame, 3rd Baronet (died 1770) married Penelope Montgomery by whom he had three sons and a daughter, the eldest of whom, Alexander, who married Elizabeth Montgomery, was father of the 4th, 5th and 6th Baronets. *Sir Walter Montgomery-Cuninghame, 4th Baronet (died 1814), who, in 1790, sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsehill Castle, Fireplace Details, Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland
The old Barony and castle of Corsehill lay within the feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, near Stewarton, now East Ayrshire, Scotland. The Lairds of Corsehill Godfrey de Ross was an early holder of the castle and lands of Corsehill, moving his seat here from the castle at Boarland (also 'Borland') or Dunlop hill. The De Ross family are now represented by the Earls of Glasgow. Andrew Cunningham, second son of William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn, was the first of the House of Corsehill in 1532. In 1532 his father had granted to him the lands of Doura, Potterton, Little Robertland, and the two Corsehills. In 1538 he was also granted ''Cuttiswray, Clarklands, et Hillhouse.''Paterson, Page 590 He was a great supporter of the reform movement and had his lands forfeited, later returned and died in 1545. Cuthbert Cunningham, son of Andrew, inherited and marrieMatilda 'Maud' Cunningham of Aiket Castle He had two sons, Alexander and Patrick, the latter being involved in the murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Cunningham
Clan Cunningham is a Scottish clan. The traditional origins of the clan are placed in the 12th century. However, the first contemporary record of the clan chiefs is in the thirteenth century. The chiefs of the Clan Cunningham supported Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Clan Cunningham feuded with the Clan Montgomery. Historically, the chief of Clan Cunningham held the title of Earl of Glencairn. However, in modern times the chief of the clan is Cunningham of Corsehill. On 18 December 2013, Sir John Christopher Foggo Montgomery Cunninghame, Baronet of Corsehill, was recognized by Lord Lyon as Clan Chief after the chiefship had been vacant for over 200 years. History Origins Cunninghame in the northern part of Ayrshire. Fredric van Bassen stated that in the year 1059, King Malcolm rewarded Malcolm, son of Freskin with the Thanedom of Cunninghame. The progenitor of the family known as Cunningham was Warnebald, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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