After leaving St Andrews, we headed north to Dundee and then west to a little town called Kettins. Our purpose was to try to verify some of Merryl’s investigations into the Cousins family history. She had discovered that my great, great, great grandfather had lived in the area and had worked as a man servant for Lord Hallyburton. As we drove into the town, we noticed the little church so we headed for it and started checking the headstones on the graves. After a bit of searching we found what we were looking for – the grave of Louis Pedrana, my great, great, great grandfather who died in 1844, aged 91 years. How exciting !! We assumed Lord Hallyburton would have lived in a fine manor house so we drove around looking to see if we could find it. As we drove up a lane and into a clearing we saw what we thought could be the manor house. We drove up to the front door but no one seemed to be about, so we walked around the side and rang a bell. A woman who was living in a ground-floor apartment answered and she confirmed that we had in fact found Hallyburton House. More excitement !! I’m not going into all the history here, but have the photos and video as a record of what we found.
Absolutely fabulous. A book MUST be on the agenda Merryl. What a find. So pleased you hired a car and got out and about.
Pure magic. You are going to be full time busy when you ger back, making a permanent record of all you have discovered for the family. So happy for you both.