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Further to my last post I have found the following which contains at reference that may lead somewhere. This in from a Clackmannan Field Studies Society Newsletter no date but must have been prior to 2000. When my mother died in 2006 I recovered local history stuff from her flat so it is not inconceivable that someone since in the society has done "The life of Tobias Baak."

Star House, 25 Kirkgate, Alloa
The sundial is a remarkable 5 foot deep sandstone panel also described in McGibbon and Ross Vol 5 P 37.
John Dunbar in "The Historic Architecture of Scotland" writes of 25 Kirkgate as a "small but well proportioned but carefully detailed house."
George Scott Moncrieff lauds the finely pointed ashlar front in "Stones of Scotland."
The house was occupied by Bauchop's (or Baak as he was better known) descendants until being bought by a sea captain. Prom 1762 till 1786 the house gave service as a Divinity Hall of the General Associate Synod (seceders). C. 1900 the frontage was altered for the purposes of a shop. The front door used to be in the west facing wall of the North wing of the house. The present frontage is shown in a postcard of some 70-80 years ago of the "Theological Hall" as having a window where the door is now. The old door is blocked up but the posts remain.

Tobias Bauchop.
The life of this worthy citizen of Alloa was well recorded in 1874 by John Crawford in "Memorials of the Parish of Alloa."
Tobias was the son of Thomas Bauchop, both were masons to the Earl of Mar. He also had a brother who was a mason. In 1684 he married Margaret Lindsay, a very strong minded woman. In so doing he forsook his native church for that of "ye barberous, perjured ceremonymongers." When he came to build Star House it was considered that the evil looking face on the sundial was the only authentic petrified portrait of Old Nick in existence.
The Session records show that on March 14 1680 Tobias Baak was one of five masons requested to estimate for repairing the old Parish Church. Jointly with John Buchanan he submitted this bill of quantities.
Good hunting.

http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/community/burialrecords/

You can search on this site for any body in any graveyard in the county and I located a  D Bonthron died 1909-4-12, in  Greenside, gives grave location and map of the sectors. Good hunting.
The Clackmannan Person

Church Street is what you want. I doubt is has changed much since the 1900. It runs from the old Post Office up to the Town Hall. Put Church Street Alloa into Google and you can get an up to date picture. Put 'Alloa' into site 'Britain from the Air' and there is a picture there which I believe dates from about 1925.

The Clackmannan Person

www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.1131313,-3.793083,3a,90y,17.14h,86.12t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sq84zOxTewxHpAkU5nPfGHQ!2e0!6m1!1e1

Tobias Bauchop's house. If you swing round clockwise you see Greenside Church and cemetery. This was close to the then town centre which moved north over the centuries. If you look 90deg left you see St Mungo's Church and if you were to walk in that direction you cross 'The Wagon Road' which was a narrow gauge railway to carry coal from the mines about 4 miles away to the harbour which is about half a mile down Broad Street on the left.
The Clackmannan Person