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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 05 June 13 20:33 BST (UK) »
Well. It's a gorgeous evening, so I popped out to Buckie and have just enjoyed a guided tour of the Mill of Buckie, Parish of Rathven, courtesy of the owner, who was very interested and most helpful.

There were two mills at Mill of Buckie, both worked by a lade that was fed by the burn that comes down the west side of the Inchgower Distillery.

The first one was a meal mill, with two wheels. It was mostly built of wood, and had become riddled with dry rot, so it was demolished and the wheels were sold to a mill preservation society and are probably still in use somewhere.

The second one was a threshing mill, and it is still standing, though no longer in use as a mill. I saw the lade coming in at the top, and a steep drop to the Burn of Buckie below the mill. The shape of the wheel is still discernible on the outer wall, and it must have been a very large wheel - we reckoned about 15 feet in diameter.

It was all but impossible to photograph because trees have grown up very close to it, but I had a go, and I'll put the photos on the Geograph web site in due course.

I still wouldn't dismiss the possibility that it's the one in Glenbervie, or even another similarly named mill.
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 05 June 13 20:35 BST (UK) »
Yes it is a different one, I just looked at the images and it seemed familiar,  Flattybasher9

then saw it was Aberdeenshire and meant to add my apologies on the last post...
was just going to add an apology when you posted...Sorry!!!

I am having problems with modifying/adding posts as it keeps saying there is a new one, but won't ever show it to me until I post...grrr...

Forfarian when looking in the area, was wishing I could go for a drive through it!!!
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #29 on: Wednesday 05 June 13 21:06 BST (UK) »
Forfarian - you're a star .. how kind to go investigating. Will look forward to the pictures in due course.

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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 05 June 13 21:38 BST (UK) »
The Aberdeenshire one never came up for me, which is sad as the site is a nice one and should be more searchable in the search engines....Mind you, if it came up I may have thought it to be one and the same as I had when Flattybasher 9 pointed it out?
Searches out just fine within the site itself though
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search/index.php?action=do_search&p_type=free_text_search&p_name=buckie%27s+mill

I suppose this fellow Buckie could have owned many Mills with his name, then?  ;D
 
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 05 June 13 22:13 BST (UK) »
Ah ha!

Looking at the farm horse tax roll (1797-8) (free access at Scotland's Places), I see the following entries:

In Rathven, George Taylor, "Mill of Bucky" - two taxed horses.

But ...

In Glenbervie, "William Walker at Buckie's Mill" - one taxed horse.

I rest my case  :).

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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #32 on: Wednesday 05 June 13 22:28 BST (UK) »
Ah, well, I enjoyed my pointless trip to Mill of Buckie  ;)

Images are now uploaded to http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ4264 - will be moderated in a day or so and available to view.
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #33 on: Wednesday 05 June 13 22:59 BST (UK) »
A descendant of George Taylor will find the photographs and thank you for it  :).

The Old Statistical Account (1796) gives the population of Glenbervie as 1307, of which 200 were "Scotch Episcopalians". FamilySearch shows a William Walker having children (not a James) in Glenbervie in the 1760s and 1770s. That is from the Church of Scotland register of course, but sometimes, certainly in the north east, families appear in the registers of both denominations at different times.

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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #34 on: Wednesday 05 June 13 23:31 BST (UK) »
Never mind, someone's been to Buckie's Mill

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NO7883
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #35 on: Thursday 06 June 13 04:00 BST (UK) »
This publication 1776 also has a subscriber Will Walker of "Buckies Mill" books.google.ca/books?id=y7pVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP21&lpg=PP21&dq="Buckies+Mill

There is  James birth  to a William but 1859, not 1761 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYN4-L48
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