Hello everyone. I've just found you all here. My Grandparents, John Leys and Gertrude Elizabeth Geddes, bought Craigielands House from the Forman Family in 1939. The Formans then moved to Dumcrieff. My Grandparents lived at Craigielands until the end of 1945, when my Grandfather died. He was only 51 and died young because he had been shot through the head at Gallipoli, whilst fighting with the Royal Scots. My Granny then moved to Craigie Lodge in Moffat, where she died in 1974. My father, Thomas Leys Geddes, lived in the south from the end of WW2 and, although he had wanted to return to Scotland, my mother, Eileen Geddes, who was from Yorkshire, said no! When he died, in 1994, he was buried with his father and mother, at Kirkpatrick Juxta. My father's brother, William Leys Geddes, is still alive at 92, and lives near Hereford. Although I was born in Edinburgh, and went to school there, I too have lived in the south for nearly all of my life. But I'm delighted to say that I will very shortly be moving back to Moffat.
