Buccleuch Park?

[stoney]

Can anyone assist me in pinpointing this on a map? G00gle doesn't seem to recognise it!

I'm planning a trip up to the Scottish Borders next month and have discovered one of my forebears (David J Beattie, sculptor & stonemason) bequeathed a monument there - would just like to go and take a look for myself - if I could only find the way....!

Any ideas?


Regards,
Stoney

[Gadget]

Langholm

http://www.playspotter.com/listings-sys/17744-buccleuch-park-1096-buccleuch-park-langholm-dumfries--galloway


Gadget

[Gadget]

Mmmmmmmmmmm

Google Maps is now telling me it's Hawick 

The Buccleuchs owned a lot of the Borders.

[Gadget]

If this is him, he was from Langholm:

http://clydesburn.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/david-johnstone-beattie-1881-1964.html

Beattie died in July 1964 and his funeral service was held in Hebron Hall in Botchergate, Carlisle. The stonemasonry business still operates from the same building, now under different management, but is still called Beattie & Co, shown below.

[stoney]

Thank you, all! :-)

Planning to revisit some family sites in the Scottish Borders - this time armed with a proper camera to get decent pictures of monuments & memorials!

Thanks for the links - some I've seen before but there were one or two nuggets of new and interesting information :-)

Thanks,
Stoney