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Subject: [D-G LIST] Dumfries Town Plan (Re: DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-D Digest V02 #273
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 01:37:28 EDT

In a message dated 9/4/02 7:02:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> On search John Wood's 1819 town plan for Dumfries I discovered the
possible
> location of my ancestor's (John HANNAH, cabinet maker) in Mill street, just
> off Nith place/Shakespeare St.
> [snip]

Is this town plan published or otherwise available, short of visiting
Dumfries? I have a reference in the will of John M'Cartney of Halketleaths
(Buittle parish KKD) to "two tenements in Luthergate*, burgh of Dumfries"
(*sp? -- hard to read) who died abt 1780, leaving his property to a grandson
John McCartney Allen, later named Dr. John Allen McCartney (taking name as a
condition of inheriting). The good doctor died 1829, apparently childless,
but leaving a passle of heirs of various surnames.
I'd be interested to know (1) just where in Dumfries "Luthergate" is (or was)
located; & (2) who all owned tenements there, especially any blocks of two
tenements.

Thanks for bringing this town plan to light!

Michael F. McCartney
Fremont, California
(no known relation -- just a limited One Name Study)

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