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From: "Gordon A Troup" <>
Subject: BRAEHEAD OF MONYMUSK
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:51:17 -0600


Hello Everyone
A BIG public THANK YOU to MARINA for her untiring efforts in assisting me
with my family research.
As there at least 3 of us on this list with an interest in BRAEHEAD OF
MONYMUSK, I will summarize the information I have located on the farm and
its inhabitants.
Cornwall's New County Directory 1853/54 page 43
Monymusk
Stewart, Thomas, farmer, Braehead

An Illustrated Guide (Architectural) by Ian Shepherd page 144-5
(photo included in book)
Braehead Farmhouse, c. 1830
Solid, three-bay granite farmhouse of some pretension (block cornices to
windows and canted dormers) which pales to insignificance against the
grandeur of the great U-plan steading adjacent. Remarkable stretched ranges
in coursed rubble, with lofts and cart sheds and an odd, Tudor-style,
detached block with steep roof, hipped at the east and cut back for
openings.

Grampian's Past
Its Archaeology from the Air
by Ian A G Shepherd and Moira K. Greig 1996
ISBN 0 9464 49 06 6
page 54
(photo included in book)
Braehead, Monymusk: an unusual parchmark produced in the dry summer of
1989. It shows the very narrow wall of a large timber house of the first
millenium BC, enclosed by a neat circular ditch. The paired post-holes at
the entrance to the house are just discernable.

MIs of Chapel of Garioch
196 In loving memory of Charles WATT late farmer Braehead, Monymusk b.
Knockolloch Chapel of Garioch 8 Oct 1814 d Norwood, Kemnay 11 May 1884; his
wife Margaret DOUNIE b Overton of Fetternear 23 June 1823 d Kemnay 15 Mar
1904; dau Catherine WATT b Haddoch of Monymusk 3 Nov 1843 d Kemnay 26 Mar
1913.
197 In memory of John WATT late farmer Knockoollichie b 18 Jun 1780 d Mar
1820 aged 39. Erected by his affectionate spouse Jannet VALENTINE. Their
son John d. Braehead of Monymusk 27 June 1861 aged 48; above Jannet
VALENTINE d there 31 Jan 1868 aged 82.

My Watt ancestors originated in Knockollochy, Chapel of Garioch and moved to
Haddoch of Monymusk sometime between 1820 and 1841, moved on to Braehead
sometime between 1854 and 1861 and left there sometime between April 1871
and 1881 so may or may not have been tenants under the new owner, JAMES
GORDON.
BRAEHEAD is approximately 1 mile north of the village of Monymusk and is
just north of Lord Cullen's School and west of the River Don.

For IRENE CUNNINGHAM:
BURNTISLAND is a parish in Fife, perhaps by checking the Genuki site at
http://sol.co.uk/w/w.owen/genuki/FIF/index.htm you can find out a little
about the area. It appears to be directly across the Firth of Forth from
Edinburgh.

AN ENVIOUS HELLO TO ALL THOSE ATTENDING THE GORDON 2000 REUNION IN THE
HUNTLY AREA

That's it from northern Alberta
Gordon Troup

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