Mill of Rathen Information

[DonM]

Directory of Landownership in Scotland ca 1770 which lists all lands of 5 acres or more in Scotland and their Owners. Under Rathen there is:

Alex. Olgivie of Auchiries
Lord Saltoun
Lewis Gordon of Techmuiry: Techmuiry
Earl of Aberdeen
Charles Gordon of Buthlaw: Invernorth
Jas. Shand of Craigellie: Rathen Mill
Alex. Gordon of Troup: Whitecairn
Charles Fraser of Inveralochy: Hillhead

I'm curious who the wife of James (1st) was.

Don

[Shand-Aberdeenshire]

The Craigellie Shands are from Banffshire.

Any idea where the Methlick Shands came from? William Shand b1750 Methlick died 1828 Rathen. Hi family was from Methlick. He is the only sibling I have found that left Methlick. Have his father John b1713 Methlick. His father as James Shand and Isobel Lesk. Any ide where that family came from?

There are two gravestones at Banff for the Shands of Craigellie. One with a Latin inscription begins with the father of James Shand, the first of Craigellie. He was also provost of Banff and died 5th March 1736 in his 58th year. The same stone commemorates his son James (d, 10-12-1795, aged 84), his son William (d. 3-3-1810 aged 70). Their wives are also commemorated.

The stone next to it commemorates William's son, William Shand (d 11-6-1848), and two of his sisters.

It would seem that the Shands were not necessarily resident at Craigellie, but mostly, lived in Banff where they had been since the 17th century.

[Skoosh]

Until the abolition of thirlage and the introduction of steam power in towns, the country miller was generally a tacksman and all the tenants in the sucken were thirled to that mill only and could use no other.  A proportion of the meal ground, multures, were kept by the miller and his assistant, this varied from an 11th to a 21st of the meal ground. From this he paid his rent to the estate and sold the balance. In addition the tenants had to supply so many days free labour to the miller each year to maintain the mill & water supply. A miller therefore required a horse to get his meal to market and the mill-croft to maintain the horse & his family.

Bests,
Skoosh.