Place:Carruthers, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

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NameCarruthers
TypeFormer parish
Coordinates55.1144°N 3.1747°W
Located inDumfriesshire, Scotland     ( - 1609)
See alsoMiddlebie, Dumfriesshire, Scotlandparish to which Carruthers was annexed in 1609
Dumfries and Galloway Region, Scotlandregional administration 1975-1996
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotlandunitary Council Area since 1996
source: Family History Library Catalog

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Carruthers like this:

Carruthers, an ancient parish on the eastern border of Annandale, Dumfriesshire, consolidated in 1609 with Middlebie and Penersax, and now forming the eastern section of the present Middlebie. From the Earls of Bothwell its lands passed to the Crown by the forfeiture of Earl James, in 1567; and, given by James VI. with the earldom of Bothwell to his cousin Francis Stewart, by him they were forfeited in 1592. Subsequently they went, with other lands in their vicinity, to the Douglases of Drumlanrig.

(Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)


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