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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 06 June 13 04:12 BST (UK) »
Interestingly there is a Buckies Mill in Ireland as well... :P

Other rootschatters with your Walkers perhaps??? Walker milners living at Buckies Mill...Has a William Walker b 1775  Glenbirvie ... Wonder if related to your ancestor?
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,537488.msg3966703.html
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #37 on: Thursday 06 June 13 12:13 BST (UK) »
GR2 - thanks so much .. I'll look at the farm horse records. In later census records, Rev James Walker gives birthplace as Aberdeen .. so possibly William moved to Buckie's Miln after his son's birth. James was certainly an episcopalian minister .. one of the Strathbogie dissenters.

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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #38 on: Thursday 06 June 13 17:19 BST (UK) »
Well, it so happens that I had to drive from Stonehaven to Forfar today, and the main road passes through the parish of Glenbervie only two or three miles from Buckie's Mill, and it was a fabulous sunny day so I made a detour and found a helpful gentleman named Mr Smith busy dismantling an old fence between Buckie's Mill and Mill of Buckie.

He explained that there were two separate places, next door to one another. One is Buckie's Mill and the other is Mill of Buckie. He took me down to the bank of the River Carron and showed me the places where there is no trace left of the Mill of Buckie, and he pointed out the house that was the miller's home, where I later had an interesting chat with the present owners.

Mr Smith also pointed out Buckie's Mill. There are two old-looking steadings, but the present house looks too recent to have been there in the 1750s.

Anyway I took some more photos (unfortunately I forgot to take one of the miller's house because I was too busy chatting) and will put them on Geograph later.
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #39 on: Thursday 06 June 13 20:12 BST (UK) »
Forfarian .. so grateful to you for all these 'diversions' down country lanes. You've given me plenty of good lines of enquiry to follow up next week.

Rosie


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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #40 on: Friday 14 June 13 09:03 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....

Trouble is, although it is in what is now called Aberdeenshire (the historical County of Aberdeen minus the City of Aberdeen, plus the whole of the County of Kincardine and about a third of the County of Banff), it is actually in Kincardineshire for all historical periods. The late 20th century reorganisations of local government boundaries are a perfect pest for anyone interested in anything that happened before 1975.
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #41 on: Friday 14 June 13 09:05 BST (UK) »
More photos are now available at

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NO7883
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #42 on: Friday 14 June 13 19:58 BST (UK) »
So nice of you  to do all that legwork Farfarian... The original photos taken by the gal were for someone whose ancestor was born there...

Another reference, from Marischall's College in 1776 has as Jacob or James Walker son of William "Jacobus Walker, f. Gulielmi in Buckie's Miln  "
http://archive.org/stream/fastiacademiaema02univuoft#page/348/mode/2up

Yeah, I see now... that is the same original reference to James...For some reason I was thinking 1760s

There are few other references ..says that in an old rhyme it is known as simply "Buckie"...
http://books.google.ca/books?id=op8HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA265&dq="buckie's+mill"

You can view it on a old may ( $) http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-191-134-C

You may want  read: History of Glenbervie ( $)
http://books.google.ca/books/about/History_of_Glenbervie.html?id=Hg65SAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
"Walker, jun., in Buckie's Mill according to a citation given him by order of the Session, an unmarried man aged thirty years and upwards, being purged of envy..."
 
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Re: Buckie's Miln
« Reply #43 on: Saturday 15 June 13 01:19 BST (UK) »
Photographs are great .. thanks Forfarian.

Thanks also JJ for all the digging you've been doing. I have seen those various references but no further forward ... yet.

Good wishes/Rosie

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« Reply #44 on: Saturday 15 June 13 09:28 BST (UK) »
You may want  read: History of Glenbervie
http://books.google.ca/books/about/History_of_Glenbervie.html?id=Hg65SAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
"Walker, jun., in Buckie's Mill according to a citation given him by order of the Session, an unmarried man aged thirty years and upwards, being purged of envy..."

I see that the accompanying blurb attaches importance to the fact that, unusually, the full sederunt was listed. Actually, my experience of Kirk Session records elsewhere is that the full sederunt is almost invariably listed, by which I mean that I have never seen a Kirk Session minute that did not list the names of all the elders who were present at the meeting.

If it was unusual to do so in Glenbervie, then it was Glenbervie that was different. If you see what I mean.
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