Penningham House

[hendren]

I have found christening records for the children of my 7xgreatgrandparents James McComb and Marjory Stewart in the early 1700s, taking place at Penningham House.

I have no idea if they lived there and looking up details of the house, it seems it is mostly Victorian built onto an earlier property.

Any help anyone can give me, would be much appreciated.

Maureen.

[*Sandra*]

Beautiful property

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/country-houses-for-sale-and-property-news/penninghame-house-spectacular-sporting-estate-in-scotland-68456

[Gadget]

Hi

Lovely house. I think it was at one time taken over by the Prison Service as an open prison  (1950-2000 approx).

The reason your ancestor might have been baptised there is because very few baptisms were performed in the kirk and were mostly undertaken by the minister at the family home, the manse or the house of one of the kirk elders.(Add-after a kirk sessions meeting)

I have seen baptism records of some of my Kirkcudbrightshire ancestors recorded as being baptised in all of such locations.

Gadget

[Gadget]

There might be some more if you search some of the links given here:

https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search/results?st=Penningham

Most of the tax, etc lists are for later in the century but the land tax roll might give some clues:

https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/historical-tax-rolls/land-tax-rolls-1645-1831/land-tax-rolls-wigtownshire-volume-02/4

https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/historical-tax-rolls/land-tax-rolls-1645-1831/land-tax-rolls-wigtownshire-volume-03/17

No names are given for the early entries (unless they were the Earl of Galloway or other gentry). I see that Penningham is listed as a separate taxable estate in the first link.

Gadget

[Gadget]

Also:

https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst5079.html

it does seem to have belonged to the Earl of Galloway at some point.

[Gadget]

If you're near a library, this Maxwell's History of D & G  might be worth trying to get hold of:

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_History_of_Dumfries_and_Galloway.html?id=Sl0JAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y

(I have some photcopied  excerpts but not for that area)

[Gadget]

I see that when they married on 26 May 1700, James was of Barbuchany (??) and Marjorie was the daughter of Robert Stewart of ??Glenlasshoch (?Glassoch) -  not sure as I've not found anything on the maps so far. They don't seem to be around Penninghame House*

* https://maps.nls.uk/view/74431127#zoom=7&lat=4589&lon=8870&layers=BT.

A snip of the places.  There is a Glassoch on map.

[hmcc]

Hi,
Penninghame OPRs with seven McComb births at Barbuchanie.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ainsty/history/parishes/penninghame/opr/laurie.htm

Ainslie's Map south of Newton Stewart is Birbachnie, might be same place but different spelling.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/74400286

hmcc.

[Gadget]

Looks like it could be, hmcc 

Were you able to locate the place where the Stewarts lived?  I thought it might be  Glassoch or nearby.

Gadget

PS - my 3xgreatgrandmother came from Kirkbride, across the bay