He completed paperwork declaring that he owned his property at Springkell Avenue and that he had ?67 in savings in a bank account.? Not a very worthy Constituent and once found guilty. Nicola should have more concern for her law abiding ...
He next marched to Ecclefechan, where he was joined by Sir Patrick Maxwell of bSpringkell/b, with fourteen horsemen, and thence to Langholm, and afterwards to Hawick, where he proclaimed the Chevalier. On the 17th October he marched to ...
The principal family is extinct, and their bestate/b has passed to others, chiefly to a family of the name of Downie. There are still, however, many branches of this tribe remaining in Appin. The chief cadets are the families of Ardshiel, Invernahyle, Auchnacrone, b..../b His third son, Rear-admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.B., born at bSpringkell/b in 1791, was educated at Chiswick. He entered the navy in 1805, and served under the earl of Dundonald, then Lord Cochrane. ...
