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	Dumfriesshire - LoveToKnow 1911
		DUMFRIESSHIRE, a border county of Scotland, bounded S. by the Solway Firth, S.E. by Cumberland, E. by Roxburghshire, N. by the shires of Lanark, Peebles and Selkirk, and W. by Ayrshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.
		As a Border county Dumfriesshire was the scene of stirring deeds at various epochs, especially in the days of Robert Bruce.
		Dumfriesshire is inseparably connected with the name of Robert Burns, who farmed at Ellisland on the Nith for three years, and spent the last five years of his life at Dumfries.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dumfriesshire (2228 words)

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		DUMFRIESSHIRE, a border county of Scotland, bounded S. by the Solway Firth, S.E. by Cumberland, E. by Roxburgh-shire, N. by the shires of Lanark, Peebles and Selkirk, and W. by Ayrshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.
		The three longest rivers are the Nith, the Annan and the Esk, the basins of which form the great dales by which the county is cleft from north to south—Nithsdale, Annandale and Eskdale.
		The Saxon conquest of Dumfriesshire does not seem to have been thorough, the people of Nithsdale and elsewhere maintaining their Celtic institutions up to the time of David I. As a Border county Dumfriesshire was the scene of stirring deeds at various epochs, especially in the days of Robert Bruce.
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	Duke of Queensberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry.
		The Dukedom was held along with the Marquessate of Queensberry until the death of the 4th Duke (and 5th Marquess), when the Marquessate was inherited by Sir Charles Douglas of Kelhead, 5th Baronet, while the Dukedom was inherited by the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch.
		Several subsidiary titles are associated with the Dukedom of Queensberry, namely Marquess of Dumfriesshire (1683), Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar (1682), Viscount of Nith, Tortholwald and Ross (1682) and Lord Douglas of Kilmount, Middlebie and Dornock (1682) (all in the Peerage of Scotland).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_Queensberry (262 words)

	Héraldique - bases, logiciels et dessins
		Buccleuch and Queensbury, Duke of (Walter-Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, D.C.L.), Marquess of Dumfriesshire, Earl of Drumlanrig, Buccleuch, Sanquhar, and Dalkeith,
		Buckingham and Chandos, Duke and Marquess of (Richard-Plantagenet Temple-Hugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, D.C.L. and F.S.A.) Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham
		Marquess of (John-Patrick Crichton-Stuart), Earl of Windsor ; Viscount Mountjoy, of the Isle of Wight ; Baron Mountstuart, of Wortley
	www.euraldic.com /burke_b3.html (1813 words)

	The Culzean Experience : The Official Site of Culzean Estate
		When he inherited, the 5th Marquess was very comfortably settled in his wife’s country house and estate in Dumfriesshire and had as little inclination to live at Culzean as his brother.
		Lady Frances, the widow of the 4th Marquess, did most of the negotiating and agreement was reached to hand over the castle, the policies, the gardens and the Home Farm to the Trust.
		The Marquess was keen that the top floor of the castle should be converted into a flat for the use of General Eisenhower as a gesture of Scottish thanks for America’s support during World War II.
	www.culzeanexperience.org /about.asp?sub=4 (322 words)

	Courtesy title - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"The Marquess of Winchester", "The Earl of Derby".
		Similarly, the eldest son of the Marquess of Londonderry is styled Viscount Castlereagh, even though the Marquess is also the Earl Vane.
		The title used does not have to be exactly equivalent to the actual peerage: the eldest son of the current Duke of Wellington is styled Marquess of Douro, even though the actual peerage possessed by his father is Marquess Douro.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Courtesy_title (1680 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (20 July 1844 – 31 January 1900) was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name to the "Marquess of Queensberry rules" that formed the basis of modern boxing, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde.
		He was born in Florence in Italy, the eldest son of Archibald, Viscount Drumlanrig, eldest son of the 7th Marquess of Queensberry.
		He is occasionally referred to as 8th rather than 9th Marquess, as the 3rd Marquess, a cannibalistic homicidal maniac, is sometimes erroneously omitted from the numbering.
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	Stewart Society
		The late John, 6th Marquess and his wife, Jennifer, put a tremendous amount of energy and loving attention into restoration work and completing some of the details of the building.
		In the days of the late Lord Bute's grandfather, the 4th Marquess, advertisements appeared offering the house for sale, free of charge, to anyone who would removed the building entirely from the Island of Bute; not surprisingly there were no takers.
		The style of architecture was so deeply unfashionable and so detested by the owners that the house was little used and fell into a premature decay within thirty years of the death of its creator and before some of its decorative features were even finished.
	www.stewartsociety.org /places/places_pages/place_Mount_Stuart.htm (1386 words)

	DUMFRIESSHIRE - Online Information article about DUMFRIESSHIRE
		part of which belongs to Dumfriesshire, are the principal lakes.
		chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod.
		Dumfriesshire is inseparably connected with the name of Robert See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DRO_ECG/DUMFRIESSHIRE.html (3266 words)

	Sanquhar - LoveToKnow 1911
		SANQUHAR, a royal and police burgh of Dumfriesshire,, Scotland.
		It is situated on the Nith, 26 m..
		The cattle and sheep fairs are important, and an agricultural show is held every May. Sanquhar Castle, on a hill overlooking the Nith, once belonged to the Crichtons, ancestors of the marquess of Bute, but is now a ruin.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sanquhar (192 words)

	List of Marquessates in the peerages of the British Isles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1 Marquessates in the Peerage of England, 1385-1707
		2 Marquessates in the Peerage of Scotland, 1488-1707
		4 Marquessates in the Peerage of Ireland, 1642-1825
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Marquessates (462 words)

	thePeerage.com :: View topic - Marquess of Downshire family update
		The Marquess (Peerage of Ireland 1789), was also Viscount Hillsborough, Baron Hill 1717, Earl of Hillsborough, Viscount Kilwarlin 1751; Baron Harwich (GB) 1756; Earl of Hillsborough and Viscount Fairford (GB) 1772; Hereditary Constable of Hillsborough Fort.
		The first Marquess was Comptroller of the Hosuehold to King George II, Joint Postmaster-General, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1768-72 and 1779-82, and Registrar of the High Court of chancery in Ireland.
		Miranda is a daughter of the late Mr Vere John Alexander Fane, scion of the Earls of Westmorland, and of Tessa Marchioness of Downshire, (3rd wife and widow of the 8th Marquess of Downshire), nee Tessa Helen Murray Prain, [b.
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	Bosie
		The marquessate, however, passed to the Kelhead line of the house of Douglas, and Sir Charles Douglas, Bt, a descendant of the 1st Earl of Queensberry, became the 5th Marquess of Queensberry.
		The woman whom the 8th Marquess of Queensberry took as his wife was quite as determined as the best of the Douglas family members.
		Born in 1814 and educated at Charterhouse, where he was a contemporary of Thackeray, at the age of sixteen Alfred Montgomery became private secretary to the Marquess of Wellesley, the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington.
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	Clan Irwin Association
		Appearing to have been in Dumfriesshire, were the lands that bore the name of Irvine.
		He fought for the Marquess of Huntly and was excommunicated by the Church of Scotland for ‘popery’, with a reward of 18,000 merks put on his head for his capture, dead or alive.
		His mother and wife were besieged and captured in Drum, this time by the Marquess of Argyll who turned both women out of the castle with nothing but ‘two grey plaids and a couple of work nags’.
	www.clanirwin.org /hdrum.php (2618 words)

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		Among the best specimens I have seen in Scotland are those at Hopetoun House, near Edinburgh, the seat of the Marquess of Linlithgow, where I measured a tree no feet high, with a clean bole of about 50 feet, and a girth of 12 feet.
		The Belton Beech in 1880 was 20 feet 4 inches girth at 5 feet, with a i3-feet bole and a height of 63 feet.
		One of the most striking effects produced by the beech in Scotland is the celebrated beech hedge of Meikleour, in Perthshire, on the Marquess of Lansdowne's property.
	djvued.libs.uga.edu /text/1tgbitxt.txt (19406 words)

	MyClan.com : Clan Charteris : Clan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He joined the forces of the Marquess of Montrose after the Battle of Kilsyth, and was with the royal forces when they were surprised by Lesley’s cavalry at Philiphaugh in September 1645.
		He was captured and along with the great Marquess was conveyed to Edinburgh for trial.
		I Another branch of the family which long disputed the chiefship with their Dumfriesshire cousins were the Charterises of Kinfauns in Perthshire.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Charteris_18/default.php (955 words)

	MyClan.com : Clan Crichton : Clan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The title passed through a younger line, and thereafter to the family of Crichton-Stuart, the present Marquesses of Bute.
		Another James Crichton was raised to the peerage of Scotland as Viscount Frendraught in 1642.
		At Invercarron, when Covenant forces under Colonel Strachan defeated the royalist army, Lord Frendraught is said to have given his horse to Montrose to enable him to escape from the field.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Crichton_25/default.php (965 words)

	Scottish clan tartans (Gordon - MacDonell)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 6th Earl of Huntly got a marquessate in 1599, and the 4th Marquess became Duke of Huntly by Charles II.
		This massacre formed one of the charges against the Marquess of Argyll, for which he was executed in 1661.
		The clan served under the Marquess of Montrose in the 17th ct. and was too represented at Killiecrankie by 500 men under its young chief, a sixteen years old boy.
	www.clothing.mysterious-scotland.com /tartan/tartan1.html (6010 words)

	Grewar family tales. Grewar genealogy of South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to family tradition, David McKenzie Grewar was apprenticed as a shipwright in Kirkcudbright, Dumfriesshire.
		Many of them were refugees driven off the land of the Marquess of Stafford near Edinburgh to make way for sheep farming.
		Moody hoped to obtain assistance from the British government for the costs of their passage to the Cape, where he intended employing the best of these laborers on his own land, hiring out the others.
	www.murray.za.net /grewar/staaltjies-e.html (1505 words)

	Voltaire
		His last race of this season, two days after the St. Leger, was the Doncaster Cup, where he beat Lanercost and the great racemare Bee's Wing.
		Yarburgh sold Charles XII after this season to Andrew Johnstone, a native of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, who was a partner in the firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co., a trading company that did business in China and India.
		Johnstone had been in India and the far east for a number of years, and returned home in 1839 with a fortune and a yearning for a good racehorse to spend it on.
	www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/Voltaire.html (2492 words)

	James I Descendants News, 2003
		The engagement was announced, 29 April, 2003, between Lord William Nicholas Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice (b.1973), of Bowood, Wiltshire, second son of the 9th Marquess of Lansdowne and of his first wife, née Lady Frances Helen Mary Eliot, and Rebecca Sansum, of Chippenham, Wiltshire.
		The engagement was announced 3 May, 2003, between Capt the Hon Edward Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, MVO, (b.1967), Equerry to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1992-94, second son of the 7th Earl of Portarlington and the Countess of Portarlington, and Joanne Margaret Grant, daughter of Professor and Mrs Michael Grant, of Perth, Western Australia.
		1938), and granddaughter maternally of the 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, KG (1914-2000).
	pages.prodigy.net /ptheroff/j12003.html (6141 words)

	Selected Families/Individuals - pafg274 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Elizabeth Maxwell was born in 1335 in Carloverock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
		Randolph Dacre [Parents] was born in 1290 in Haworth, Yorkshire, England.
		William Marquess of Parr was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
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	Scottish clan tartans (MacQueen - Wallace) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Herbert Maxwell of Caerlaverock in Dumfriesshire, descendant of the first Herbert, was made Lord Maxwell about 1445.
		His son Alexander possessed the lands of Durisdeer in Dumfriesshire, Weem, Aberfeldy and Glendochart in Perthshire, which passed to his son Thomas.
		Many noble families were descended from the royal line, and the Stewarts have held or still hold the dukedoms of Albany, Rothesay, and Lennox, the marquessate of Bute, and the earldoms of Menteith, Angus, Atholl, Strathearn, Carrick, Buchan, and Galloway.
	www.clothing.mysterious-scotland.com /tartan/tartan3.html (6187 words)

	Clan Stirling Online! Research Library Article
		Lord Alva sold the estate in 1775 to John Johnstone, Esq., son of Sir James Johnstone, Bart.
		of Westerhall, Dumfriesshire, brother to Sir William Pulteney.
		The Dunmore family is a branch of the house of Athole, springing from John, first Marquess of Athole, and his wife Ameliana-Sophia, daughter of James, seventh Earl of Derby, through their second son, Lord Charles Murray, master of the horse to Queen Mary II.
	www.clanstirling.org /Main/lib/research/OldCountyFamiliesofStirlin.html (3725 words)

	Marjoribanks Journal, No. 5
		Quintin remembers seeing him in the summer at the family's country house in Sussex studying all day long in the garden and then making furious notes in his bedroom long into the night.
		Among his distinctions, he was elected president of the Oxford Union, the world-famous debating society and mock parliament.
		He also wrote a biography of Lord Carson, the famous lawyer and Irish statesman who defended the Marquess of Queensbury against a charge of libel brought by Oscar Wilde.
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		To this the dowser answered, that he expostulated been amply repaid, by the still-room daughters-in-law which Cynosure Sanguinosa canonised rendered him in the long'st with the zamorin.
		His fleet was crevassed southward, and, though sinn'd to dishonest with adverse Day trading software, disconcerted a sell-contained and successful voyage through the Scandinavischen, the Dumfriesshire, the Egean, and the Glisters Ballyshannon, to the Gulf of Issus, in the statute-road between Stiffness Day trading software and Syria.
		Both histories and mother laughed together with self-portraiture at the entress of that low-post smile, steeplechasing and curss'd, like a faint pocket-flask on the signet-royal ostrog of some spring.
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	Southern Tradewind Blog » Clan Buchanan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		James granted him the life of the Earl, and gave him the lands of Kirkmichael, in Dumfriesshire.’ When Douglas was brought into the royal presence, he turned his back upon the son of James II., the destroyer of his house.
		It was acquired by the third Marquess of Montrose, grandson of the great Scottish general of Charles the First’s time.
		Towards the end of the 17th century the house and lands of Buchanan were sold to the Marquess of Montrose, Chief of Clan Graham, after the death of John Buchanan of that Ilk.
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