Hi David,
The only trouble you might encounter here is for the delay in posting!!
:) Can you search the CD for reasonable requests? Have you connected any of
the data to data posted in our List Archives?
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/carruthers.html
Barry
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ford" <adf(a)youroldbooksandmaps.co.uk>
To: <CARRUTHERS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:20 AM
Subject: [Carruthers] The Historical Families Of Dumfriesshire & The Border
Wars 1889
Hi folks,
I might get into bother for this, but I have the following book, released
on CD-Rom and there are plenty of Carruthers details in it. Mainly
gentry - but a superb book.
"The Historical Families Of Dumfriesshire & The Border Wars 1889"
Snippets such as:-
In 1508-9 the Lord of Johnstone and Adam Johnstone were
two of the judges of assize who convicted William Carruthers
of uplifting cattle from the lands of Newbie.
* John Carruthers of Holmains, married to Charlotte, daughter of Sir
Robert Laurie of Maxwelton, was obliged to sell his family property in
the last century in consequence of the series of calamities to which
Dumfriesshire had been subjected, culminating in bank failures, spreading
general ruin. His descendants died out in the male line, but the
family is represented in the female by his great grandson, the Rev.
William Mitchell Carruthers, eldest son of the late General St. Leger
Mitchell, born 1853, incumbent of Brunswick Chapel, May fair; married,
and has issue. In 1788, when the franchise was very limited, John
Carruthers is described as having no longer a vote, and it is remarkable
that all who were then stated in a secret memoir to have any fortune or
sufficient estate to qualify them were in a profession or business, or had
acquired wealth elsewhere than in Dumfriesshire.
The old Laird of Johnstone died JSTov. 8, 1567, leaving a
grandson, John, who the next year was engaged at Langside
on the part of the Queen. His daughters were married
to John Maitland of Auchencastle, to Adam Grahame, to
a Carruthers of Mouswald, and to Christopher Irving of
Bonsliaw (a valiant soldier, who had been a prisoner in the
hands of the English), and his granddaughter Janet was
married to the eldest son of Lord Carlyle.
Regards,
David
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