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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 14, 2015January 24, 2023

I’ll remember thee

The Macrae Monument, Monkton, Ayrshire. The film presents a story. James Macrae is first introduced. Time then weaves its unseeing way and we learn of Macrae’s family connection to the … Continue reading I’ll remember thee

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, Family history, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: "Lucky" (as Betty was familiarly called), Affric, Alva, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Asloss and Slidderybraes, Ayrshire, Betty Black, Bridge of Allan, Burn's night, Dean Castle, Deans castle, Dr Peter Gordon, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Duncan Chisholm, Earl of Glencairn, Eliza Black, Eliza Stewart, Fair Eliza, Films about Rabbie Burns, Hole Ousia, I'll remember thee, James Macrae, Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock Edition, lament, Lecropt: Ten Summers Fade, Lucky Alva, Macrae Monument, Madras, Monkton, Monument, Mossgrove, Mrs Begg [sister of Rabbie Burns]:most of the engraved portraits of her brother “are incorrect and some bear no resemblance”, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Orangefield, Peter and Sian, Peter Gordon, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Prestwick, Rabbie Burns, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Scottish, Social maverick, Susan Baird, Susannah Rutherford, Tam o' Shanter, Ten Summers fade, The Antiquary, The laird of Asloss and Slidderybraes, The Macrae Monument, The Rebel Antiquary, Turn again thou fair Eliza!, Turn again though Fair Eliza, Unknown Air, Unknown heir, Where recorded history has gone astray: Rabbie Burns

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 25, 2015January 15, 2023

Turn again, thou fair Eliza!

Today it is the 25th January 2015. Rabbie Burns was born on this day in 1759. My family have a story about Rabbie Burns. It is not widely known. In … Continue reading Turn again, thou fair Eliza!

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Poems, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: "Lucky" (as Betty was familiarly called), 12th February 2009, 1965, 25 January, A Clydesdale Man, A song-heroine of Burns, Alec MacCallum-Scott, Alva, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Asloss, Auld Lang Syne, Betty Black, Betty Black - an Alva Worthy, Body snatchers, Bridge of Allan, Burke and Hare, Burns Nicht, Carluke, Catriona, Charles Rodger, Charles Rogers, Daniel McNeil Watson, Darwin, Dave Francis, David Rutherford, Dean Castle, Devon, doctor, Dr Daniel Reid Rankin, Dr John Stewart Rutheford, Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord, Dr Knox, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Rankin, Dr Robert Knox, drowned, Earl of Glencairn, Eccentric, Eliza Black, Fair Eliza, folk singer, Fossils, Gilbert Farie, GP, Hole Ousia, How oddly all this touches me, James Macrae, James Woodburn Dunlop, Jekyll & Hyde, John Glen Parker, Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock Edition, Lecropt, Lismore, Luckie, Lycidas, MacRobert Arts Centre, Mairi Campbell, Margaret Black, Margaret Mary Scott, Mauchline Belles, Middle Bridge, Monumental Madness, Mrs Begg [sister of Rabbie Burns]:most of the engraved portraits of her brother “are incorrect and some bear no resemblance”, musician, No 5, one-eyed anatomist, Peter Gordon, Poems, poet, poetry, Rabbie Burns, rebel antiquary, Resurrectionists, Robert Burns, Robert Burns in Stirlingshire, Robert Louis Stevenson, sampler, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Slidderybraes, Social maverick, Stirling, Tam o' Shanter, Ten Summers fade, The Antiquary, The Cast, the first biographer of Winston Churchill, the Great Garden, The modern Scottish Minstrel, The Rebel Antiquary, The strange case of Dr Jekyll & Hyde, The Two Hundredth Anniversary of Darwin’s birth, Turn again thou fair Eliza!, Wallace Monument, Where recorded history has gone astray: Rabbie Burns, William Harvey, Written by Dr Peter J. Gordon

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