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Topic: Windrigg Kirk, Dalton, Dumfriesshire (Read 158 times)
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purplekat
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Hi everyone
Has anyone heard of Windrigg Kirk in Dalton,does it still exist and is it a church or a farm?
Thank you
Jean 
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kathgill
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Hi Jean
I was born near the village of Dalton and have never heard of Windrigg but thats not to say there was not a place named that. There is Millstonerigg, Kirklandrigg and Mossrigg. Is there a name that is associated with Windrigg that we could maybe go on.
Regards
Kathleen
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purplekat
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Hi Kathleen
Thanks for your reply, my gggg grandparents, Francis Henderson and Mary Vivers, who married in 1777, were from Dalton. I know this from my own research, recently I've been given access to another descendant's research and the notes mention Windrigg Kirk as their address, (also in the notes as Kirk Windrigg).
Francis Henderson was a farmer so I thought it was possibly a farm and that I might be able to see where they lived next time I'm in the Dumfries area.
Jean
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kathgill
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Hi again
Kirklandrigg is not in the village of Dalton is a few miles from their and on the Murraythwaite Estate. There are three cottages there and it is possible that years ago it was a farm as there are farm buildings but when I was living in that area the estate used the buildings for storeage. The cottages are let out now and I don't know of anyone left who would be able to help. I will make enquiries as I sometimes come in contact with the people who own Murraythwaite Estate now and maybe they can check this out for me.
Kathleen
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akc
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gggranny & grandad cursiter
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On the old map that I have, Whinny Rig and Kirkland Rig are just inside the Dalton parish boundary next to Murraythwaite which is in Cummertrees
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Dumfriesshire: Bell, Kerr, Dickson, Hetherington
Orkney: Cursiter, Peace, Drever, Cooper, Paterson
Cumberland: Charlton, Young
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purplekat
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Thank you Kathleen, akc and csc for all the brilliant information.
Kathleen - thank you for going to the trouble of investigating this for me, I would appreciate any info you find
akc - thanks for the whinyrigg tip, and the map, it sounds promising. My ggg grandmother was Ann Henderson, she married Robert Blyth and moved to Moffat.
csc - thanks for all the info on the Henderson family, apart from Ann I knew they had twins Betty and Janet and son Christopher but I hadn't found Richard and Thomas and it's great to have some info about their lives.
I'm going away now to absorb all the info
cheers
Jean
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kojak
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My uncle may well know if such a place existed (Whindrigg Kirk) - He is a local historian and has written books on Dalton and Hightae.
I will enquire this weekend and will post back the response.
I too, used to live in the area and believe the reference you are making to Whindrigg Kirk is the Old Dalton Kirk which is shown on the map aka posted. There used to be more houses in the Dalton rural landscape and you may well have unearthed another.
Kojak
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Green, Gibson, Ross, Telfer, Jardine, Hay, Kennedy, Dickson, in Dumfriesshire esp Lochmaben and Kirkcudbright
Thom (Banffshire and Renfrewshire), Cormack & McBain in Ross and Cromerty and Banffshire/Aberdeenshire
McClelland, MacNeill, MacCully, Carson, Northern Ireland
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purplekat
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Hi Kojak
Thank you so much, I'll look forward to hearing from you again
Jean
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kathgill
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I don't think that Whiny Rig is near Dalton Kirk. The village of Dalton has three churches and they are all within the village but this Whiny Rig that appears on the map looks as if its on the Hoddom Road. If I can remember from my youth there was a ruin down near the river Annan at Murraythwaite Mill and this looks as if it could be it. It will be nearer Kirklandrigg which is over a mile from Dalton. My parents farmed near Dalton and I was born and lived there for many years and knew the area very well and I am certain there is nothing in Dalton by the name of Whiny Rig. It will be interesting to find out where it really is.
Kathleen
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