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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CASTLECHIMS | Valuation Roll Forests Co: Map Meiklcham's Map "Chemys, Chemyes, Chymmes, Chymis- A chief dewelling: as the manor home of a landed proprieter or the palace of a prince)" Jamieson J. Graham Esqr. Proprieter |
011.09 | A row of thatched cottages occupied by weavers. The property of J. Graham Esquire. These cottages are supposed to be built on the site of a castle, no traces or ruins of which are to be seen now. The following account written by the Revd J. S. Johnstonr. Parish Minister, gives the origin of the name or the probable origin of it, which is generally supposed to have reference in some manner to "Gilbertfield Castle". "The lands of Gilbertfield were anciently forced out by the Earls of Douglas: upon which there is built a good house tolerably situated. The date of the present house is 1607 which may be seen engraved over one of the windoows high up. on the side where the door is Hamilton "Dec 19th 1629 is the date of the "Testament of Rev Robert Cunningham of Gilbertfield, Knight within the parish of Camberslang. He died in the month of December 1628. This shows that there was an estate at best bearing the name of Gilbertfield- and it is highly probable there was a house or castle where he resided. The probability is that that residence was the old fortification or castle and that it stood on the position of the cottages which still remains in old documents is Castle chapmns which in all probability is a corruption of Castle Cummssus. The family of the Cummins frequently inter married with the Douglasses." written by Revd J.S. Johnstone |
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