Orchard Keeper

[Anne H]

Hi Lynn,
Welcome to TalkingScot.

Linda doesn't appear to have visited TalkingScot since July 2008 so hopefully she will see your post. You could also try sending her a PM (private message) providing ofcourse she still has the same email address.

Good luck with your search.

Regards,
Anne H

[Currie]

What a very interesting looking place is Cambuskenneth. It must have a very lazy river to meander like that. http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&i ... 33689&z=15

The Tower Orchard is supposed to be in Ladysneuk Road. That’s the one that enters the village from the north. If you zoom right in at the southern end of the road you can see what I suppose is the tower of the Abbey casting a long shadow and what looks like the foundations of a large ruined building next to it.

The Tower Orchard must have been nearby.

Hope that’s interesting,
Alan

[AndrewP]

See http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/s ... uskenneth/ for more info regarding Cambuskenneth Abbey, but sadly no mention of the orchard.

All the best,

AndrewP

[LindaChapman]

Lynn,
I attempted to reply to your message a few days ago but suspect that my attempt failed. I didn't keep a copy, unfortunately, but if you confirm that it did not reach you I shall try to reconstruct it. Sorry about the inefficiency!
Linda

[LynnSkelton]

Hi Linda,

Sadly no I didn't receive anything from you - I had also tried to send you a PM with my email address in it, but although I thought it had gone, it appears to be sitting in my outbox not my sent box ??? - As you will see I have just joined this site and am a bit baffled by the workings...........will go back and try to send the PM again.

Ah Ha as they say I now understand why my message(s) to you are in my Outbox, apparently they stay there until you have opened them and read them - have you been to your Inbox and read the messages? apparently they then move into my sent Box once you have opened them - very different to other Forum sites I have used.

Hopefully we will get there in the end!!

Lynn

[LesleyB]

Hi Lynn

it appears to be sitting in my outbox not my sent box ???

It will sit in your outbox until the recipient collects it. Once the recipient has clicked on it to view it, it will move to your sent box.

Best wishes
Lesley

[LindaChapman]

Dear Lynn,
This is driving me crazy! I tried to save my reply but the message just vanished so I shall have to input it yet again.

Valuation rolls show Andrew Hamilton as a tenant of Tower Orchard between 1910 and 1939. Presumably it referred to his son after 1915. There is a gap in the records between 1900 and 1910 so I can't tell when they moved there.
In 1949 Andrew Hamilton & sons were tenants of St James Orchard. It would be possible to find out when they moved and how long they were there.

I think that I have identified the married daughter. Sasines (property transfers) show that in 1928 Robert Wilson and Margaret Hamilton bought Alexandra Cottage, which still exists in South Street. I found the marriage on Scotlandspeople -
24 March 1920 at Waverly Hotel, Murray Place, Stirling Robert Wilson, mason, 29, 24 Forth Street Stirling married Margaret Hamilton, 24, Tower Orchard, Cambuskenneth. Parents Alexander Wilson & Elizabeth Ramsay Gibson, Andrew Hamilton, fruit grower deceased & Margaret Morton deceased.
I think that one of neighbours knows something about the descendants of the Wilsons.

I hope that this is helpful. It would obviously be possible to get more details from Scotlandspeople.

Best wishes, Linda

[CrombieMarion]

Hello, this has probably come too late Helen as I think you have visited Tower Orchard since your post. My grandmother and grandfather were Robert Wilson and Margaret Hamilton of Alexandra Cottage, South Street and my great uncle Andrew , aunt Kate and aunt Jean all lived in Tower Orchard until the early 1970s. Andrew died in 1967' followed by Kate and Jean. As previously mentioned they , along with a daughter Margaret who died young were the first family of Andrew Hamilton and Margaret Strang. He then married Margaret Morton and they had another daughter called Margaret who was my grandmother, Marion, Helen and Bella. Bella died when she was about seventeen and the other three sisters all died between 1974 and 1979.


Andrew Hamilton senior was born around 1840 and moved with all his children from Kirkfield Bank to Cambuskenneth around 1903. I believe he had other siblings some of whom lived in Stonehouse, Lanarkshire.

My grandparents had three children, Alexander who died in 2007 , Andrew who I believe you may have met died in 2012 and My mother Margaret who lives near us in Bracknell. My son is doing a family tree and I am sure he will be able to trace your family ties with mine but it will be a few weeks before it is finished. Please let me know if I can be of any further help.Marion