Tag: Kirkinner
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The Wigtownshire Railway
When you drive from Newton Stewart and through Wigtown, take the A714 to Kirkinner. Before you reach the village of Kirkinner, first you arrive at Braehead, the neighbouring hamlet that sits, as the name suggests at the head of the brae. This is a steep bank that overlooks the land of Baldoon which leads down…
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Widow of John McKie
This weeks post is the outline of an article that I have prepared for the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society Newsletter this Autumn. The DGFHS is an organisation that has its own premises in the town of Dumfries. It was established in 1987 and is dedicated to supporting members with their family history research.…
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Whithorn, a field trip journal
We have just returned from the Whithorn peninsula. The cone shaped peninsula that juts out from Galloway into the entrance of the Solway Firth. With gentle rolling hills and moors known as the Machars, grazed by the distinctive black with white strip Galloway cows, this hidden area of Scotland is steeped in history. The first…