Iain2201, you are an absolute star!
Welcome to Rootschat, I hope you find this site as helpful and friendly as I have, no matter what we ask someone out there seems to have the expertise to offer advice or signposting in the right direction.
Thank you so much for the picture of Pleasuregate, now Bonniebraes. Oddly enough I drove north up the M74 on Tuesday 24th, but didn't go into Johnstonebridge this time, just stopped at Kirkpatrick Juxta up the road in Beattock. It's really good to know that the house still survives and is loved, so many of the other houses have gone and are just names now.
Janet Ritchie and James Anderson are on my tree, but only with a note of their marriage in 1834, I hadn't got any details of their family from then on but we must be cousins.
I have Jean Ritchie and John Boyes with just 2 daughters, Jean b 1809 and Janet b 1811. Jean is my gr.gr.grandmother, and you say that Janet is yours, so I think I'd need to sit down with a piece of paper to work out how many times removed cousins that technically makes us!
Thank you again for the picture, and if there's any help I can give you, please ask. You need to make 3 posts on this site before you can use the PM (private message) system but that's only the one you've already make plus 2 more.
Hope we meet up on the site again at some point,
Maggie