Temple Village Midlothian

[Templar75]

Hi Mac,

           sorry for the delay in sending but I am just back from Spain.

           I don't have any with the christian names you have given me, however, I do have some surnames.

Check out an earlier posting I done for Sandra who may be a relative of yours, url below.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,366809.0.html


Mary Graham Bennet died at Braidwood Bank 22nd October 1888
aged 91 years, also William Graham who died at Braidwood Bank
5th January 1889 aged 90 years, also Margaret Shaw Bennet who
died at Jane Bank in Bonnyrigg 14th November 1894 aged 67 years.
John Brydon who died at Braidwood Bank 26th March 1932 aged 73
years, Grandson of the above Mary Graham also her Daughter Jane
died at Esperston Hill 25th February 1919 aged 29 years, also
Marjoribanks Magdalene Livingston died 24th June 1930 aged 82
years, Wife of the above John Brydon.


Ann Bennett aged 91 died 03/10/1912 wife of Walter Brydon aged 45 died 13/04/1898 at Jane Bank Bonnyrigg.

Helen Bennett aged 90 died 14/01/1954 at Haggs Kirknewton wife off William Bald aged 63 died 09/03/1936 at Mauldslie.

John Cornwall died 1844 no age given, possably at Stobbs. John Cornwall aged 68 died 18/02/1901 at Stobbs Mills. Janet Cornwall aged 79 died 22/07/1912 at Powder Mill Cottages. Richard Cornwall aged 60 died 20/09/1918 at Gowkshill.

Richard Cornwall died 17/02/1826. his daughter Mary died 29th December year is obliterated aged 3 years. Thomas Cornwall aged 11 years died 26/06/1810. Mary Cornwall aged 19 years died 01/08/1856. Mary Knight ( Cornwall ) aged 86 years died 15/02/1858. Thomas Cornwall aged 63 died 23/10/1863

Erected by John Thorburn, Joiner at Arniston in memory of his Wife
Christian Pendreich died 18th November 1898 aged 49 years, also
their Son David Pendreich died 20th December 1888 aged 4 years,
also the above John Thorburn died 19th February 1915 aged 64
years. All died at Arniston Saw Mill.

I hope some of these are relatives.

Best regards.

Archie.

[alisonbcd]

Hi Archie,
I would like to say a big thank you for the tombstone information pertaining to the Cornwall family. Like Sandra and Maggie, they are my gg grandparents too. The photographs are wonderful.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Alison

[mccaske]

Many thanks for the time you took to add the information about Benet and Cornwall. I am more than happy about this and also because I found on another posting - surname search Ramage/Murray" - this adds to my information about the marriage of John Donaldson and Mary Ramage as in my web page http://www.mccaskie.org.uk/Bennet.htm . I have copied all the correspondence unto a word doc and will research in depth this evening and search Scotlands People.

Many thanks Heather
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Hi Mac,

           sorry for the delay in sending but I am just back from Spain.

           I don't have any with the Christian names you have given me, however, I do have some surnames.

Check out an earlier posting I done for Sandra who may be a relative of yours, url below.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,366809.0.html


Mary Graham Bennet died at Braidwood Bank 22nd October 1888
aged 91 years, also William Graham who died at Braidwood Bank
5th January 1889 aged 90 years, also Margaret Shaw Bennet who
died at Jane Bank in Bonnyrigg 14th November 1894 aged 67 years.
John Brydon who died at Braidwood Bank 26th March 1932 aged 73
years, Grandson of the above Mary Graham also her Daughter Jane
died at Esperston Hill 25th February 1919 aged 29 years, also
Marjoribanks Magdalene Livingston died 24th June 1930 aged 82
years, Wife of the above John Brydon.


Ann Bennett aged 91 died 03/10/1912 wife of Walter Brydon aged 45 died 13/04/1898 at Jane Bank Bonnyrigg.

Helen Bennett aged 90 died 14/01/1954 at Haggs Kirknewton wife off William Bald aged 63 died 09/03/1936 at Mauldslie.

John Cornwall died 1844 no age given, possably at Stobbs. John Cornwall aged 68 died 18/02/1901 at Stobbs Mills. Janet Corwall aged 79 died 22/07/1912 at Powder Mill Cottages. Richard Cornwall aged 60 died 20/09/1918 at Gowkshill.

Richard Cornwall died 17/02/1826. his daughter Mary died 29th December year is obliterated aged 3 years. Thomas Cornwall aged 11 years died 26/06/1810. Mary Cornwall aged 19 years died 01/08/1856. Mary Knight ( Cornwall ) aged 86 years died 15/02/1858. Thomas Cornwall aged 63 died 23/10/1863

Erected by John Thorburn, Joiner at Arniston in memory of his Wife
Christian Pendreich died 18th November 1898 aged 49 years, also
their Son David Pendreich died 20th December 1888 aged 4 years,
also the above John Thorburn died 19th February 1915 aged 64
years. All died at Arniston Saw Mill.

I hope some of these are relatives.

Best regards.

Archie.

[8Orion]

Hi Archie:
  My great-great-great-grandfather, John Calder, died in Temple village on Oct. 12, 1874. His wife, Agnes Linton, died in Middlemills, Lasswade in 1882. Do you have any record of their burial in the Temple village burial ground?
Thank you!

John

Cambridge, Ontario

[mccaske]

Hi Maggie - I saw your very interesting posting about the Cornwall family. My husband's 2nd great grandmother was Anne Cornwall b 10 Sep 1839, sister of your Richard b 10 Apr 1826 - my web page http://www.mccaskie.org.uk/Bennet.htm - so with this gravestone image and your posting we are one generation further back. Anne married Thomas Bennet on 28 Jun 1859.

I will update my website. Heather

Hi Archie,

Thank you for the headstone photograph of the Cornwall family in Temple Kirkyard.  (You previously sent one of my Ramage ancestors).  My 4th G Grandparents Richard Cornwall b. 1769 West Molesey, Surrey, married to Mary Knight of Middlesex came to Scotland in the late 1790's to work at the Gunpowder factory - he was killed in an explosion at the factory on 17th February 1825.  His son Thomas Cornwall b.1800 Stobmills, my 3rd G Grandfather, died in 1863 from an injured spleen, and his son Richard Cornwall b. 1826 at Stobmills, my 2nd G Grandfather, died in 1893 after being struck by a locomotive on the viaduct bridge while working on the line.  All three ancestors died a horrible death.

Inserting the story below.

Regards,
Maggie

Dreadful Explosion.

A Full and Particular Account of that Dreadful
Explosion of Gunpowder, at Stobbs Mills, on
Thursday last the 17th February, 1825, at a few
minutes past Eight in the moratng, by which two
Men and a Horse lost their lives, and several others
were severely injured.

About ten minutes after eight yesterday morning the inhabitants
of the odjacent villages of Stobbs and Gore Bridge, and neighbour-
hood, were thrown into great alarm, in consequence of an explosi-
son of gunpowder, which tock place at one of the branches of the
extensive manufactory which Messrs. Hitchener and Hunter have
for many years carried on at Stabbsmills. The accident is one of
such a nature as precludes all possibility of ascertaining how it
originated, which, of course, must, must ever remain matter of con.
jecture ; all that is known is, that a man named Walter Thomson
had gone with a cart loaded with powder from one of the mills to.
the charge-house, a kind of temporary store house in which the
powder is kept, until there is room in the stove or drying house to
receive it, and nearly adjoins the later, and this person must have
been in the act of unloading the cart at the moment the explosion
accurred. Fortunately, however, the sufferers have been few, ts it
is ascertained that Thomson ( the carter ) and an old man named
Richard Cornwall employed at the stove, were the only individuals
who lost their "lives ; their bodies were blown to atoms, and but
small portions of them have been picked up, at great distances from
each other, and in such a condition as rendered it impossible to dis-
tinguish to which of the two they belonged ; the head and neck of
one was reoonised from the neckloth about it.

The horse was thrown a considerable distancet and some of the
barrels of powder which had been placed on the cart were blown in
the air, and exploded over the heads of the ploughmen in the fields
The materials of the stove house and charge house, which are both
raised to the foundation, are lying in directions, extending to a eir-
cumferance of at least half a mile, covering the fields like flocks of
birds. So great was the concussion that in the villages scarcely a
window has escaped its ravages ; that of Stobbsmills, although nea-
rest the scene of the explosion, has suffered least, but in Gore Bridde
many houses have not a whole pane left, and the roofs present a
most picturesque appearance ; some entirely unroofed on one side,
and from most of the others the tiles are moved down so as some-
what to resemble a sieve. The meeting-house at Gore Bridge has
not only suffered in glass, but the astrigals of several of the win-
dows have gone alone with the more fragile materials: even at the
farm house of Newhouses at leasl three quarters of a mile from the
mills, many of the panes were broken and the doors of some of the
houses were burst open. We haxe heard too that the glass in the
hot-houses at Vogrie, three miles distant were broken, and part of
the ceiling of the house of Fountainhall was thrown down. The
concussion was quite terrific in Dalkeith, four miles distant, and af-
fected the buildings so much as to prevent the doors from shutting
and in Ormiston, Tranent, and Musselburgh, it was distinctly felt.
Here, in Edinburgh, fully nine miles from the mills, the two explo-
sions were very generally heard, but supposed by many to be blasts
in the neighbourhing quarries, or a salut from a vessel in the Frith.

The quantity of powder supposed to hare exploded is calcnlated
at about six tons weight, forty barrels were in the store, forty or
fifty in the charge house, and ten on the cart. The two unfortu-
nate men who were killed had both families.

Printed for Robert M'Millan,—PRICE ONE PENNY.

[Dannemois]

Hello Archie
A special friend of mine who is now sadly deceased would be very pleased and proud of the job you are doing with Temple churchyard and its records.  You may very well know of him; Alastair Anderson.  Alastair and I go back some thirty years and when he was chairman of the Gorebridge historical society he helped me so much with my research on my Smith family history, so much so we became good friends.  Temple meant so much to Alasdair and the last act carried out by him was the addition of the gates to the churchyard.

I am a direct descendant of Alexander Smith of Harvieston Terrace and his son Robert Smith, [my great grandfather] architect of Gorebridge who built many fine buildings in Gorebridge and around the district.  My father is another Robert Smith named after his grandfather the architect was born in Harvieston Terrace, houses his grandfather built.  Alexander Smith of Harvieston Terrace had a successful joiners/builders/undertakers business in the village and when he passed away another son Peter took the business over.  My research 'brickwall' is Harvieston estate having traced two generations of Smiths employed there as servants to Thomas Cranstoun with another Alexander Smith who came to the estate with the Cranstouns. 

Keep up the excellent work.

Best Regards
Royston Smith

[Templar75]

Hi Royston,

                  thank you very much for your kind comments, as a Scottish Knight Templar I have been working on the history of the area for the past 3 years, there was a chap 20 years ago who made out a list of the Temple burial ground, he had missed a few out and some stones he could not make out the inscriptions.
I decided to put something back into the community and took over where he had left off, at the same time I decide to take photographs of all the stones at Temple and have them all now on record. In this way it helps those who live abroad and those in the UK that can't manage to see them, I can now send them by email to them to help them further in their family quest.

Sadly I never met Alistair, but the gates are beautiful to look at and reflect on Alistair very much, I only wish I had known him or even have met up with him, they are not just a major part of Temple burial ground but are a monument to him as well.

You said that you have hit a brick wall with the Smith family, in what way ?, I have Smiths from the old burial book and some with stones at Temple, however, some dates and christian names are missing, it was a very badly kept book. The book covers from 1888 till 1996.

If I can be of any help please get in touch again and I will see what I can do.

Best regards.

Archie.

[Templar75]

Temple village Forum.

I have put some information on the above Forum, it would be nice if all those who have ancestors who came from Temple village or the greater Parish of Temple, to post interesting stories or not so interesting on the Forum.

So come on guys get your fingers tapping and join in on the Forum, all you have to do is register, and best of all it's free, the url is below.

http://www.templevillage.org.uk/forum/

I hope that I am not breaking any rules on this site by posting this, if I am then I am deeply sorry.
The Temple site owners are not aware that I am posting this, so please smack my hand and not theirs.

Archie.

[Templar75]

Through a local website I found 8 men by the name of Cornwall, who fought in World War I, many survived, one was not so fortunate, they are.

Private = Pte. Driver = Dvr


Private James R. Cornwall No. S/18161 Cameron Highlanders 6th Battalion he lived at Newtongrange.

Pte. Richard Cornwall No. 9425 Queens Own Cameron Highlanders 1st Battalion lived at Newtongrange.
One of the first men from the village to die and the first of the Cornwall's he died of his wounds at Ypres in November,1914 and is buried at the Railway Chateau Cemetery.

Pte. John Cornwall No. 15047 Royal Scots 12th Battalion he was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cornwall Newtongrange.

Pte. John Cornwall No. GS/6897  77182 Royal Fusiliers, Royal Field Artillery possibly lived at Newtongrange.

Dvr. Walter Cornwall No. 69131 36th Royal Field Artillerylived at Newtongrange.

Pte. Richard Cornwall No. 6318 S/24728 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and Seaforth Highlanders lived at Newtongrange.

Pte. Hugh Cornwall No. 4419  3349414  AV1920 Royal Scots 8th Battalion and Gordon Highlanders lived at Newtongrange.

With a special thanks to John Duncan.


Templar.