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Burnside the Mackeith Family Home Damside Damside Burnside Te MacKeith Family Home By John MacKeith DAMSIDE/BURNSIDE - THE MACKEITH FAMILY HOME INTRODUCTION I acknowledge my extensive use of For about 200 years the MacKeith family owned a property, the research, sketch maps and photos Damside, (later called Burnside), in the hamlet of Ruskie in the old provided by the late Alastair MacKeith. county of Perthshire (now in Stirlingshire) in the heartlands of I am also very grateful for the help of Scotland. Tere are both facts and stories about the house and the his daughter, Fenella Lacey. My thanks people who lived there, which have been circulating in the family also to my daughters, Joy and Helen, for many years. It seemed to me to be a good idea to bring these all for their comments. My thanks, too, to together, so that there would be a record for posterity of our family Lucy at Stampa for her help. antecedents. Tere are a good many names in the story, so I have included, from the start, a family tree and also a chart showing who Published 2017 owned Burnside and who was living there at diferent times (see Appendix 5). For much of this information I am indebted to Designed & Printed by: Alastair MacKeith, who did a lot of research into the family. It Stampa Print & Design, Brighton. would seem right to dedicate this booklet to him. 1 2 MACKEITH FAMILY TREE JOHN KATHARINE McKIECH = McGREGOR (1705 - 1800) (1716 - 1785) MARGARET DONALD PETER McGREGOR = McKIECH McKIECH ( - 1827) (1742 - 1826) DUNCAN JANET CATHERINE MARGARET ELIZABETH PETER ALEX MARY ELIZABETH McNAUGHTON == McKIECH McKIECH McKIECH McKIECH McKIECH McKIECH McKIECH McKIECH (1776 - 1807) (1781 - ) (1783 - ) (1785 - ) (1787 - ) (1789 - 1871) (1791 - ) (1792 - ) = JEAN JOHN ISOBEL GEORGE MacEWAN (1) = McKIECH = McCOLL (2) MACFARLANE ( - 1818) (1779 - 1842) (1810 - 1903) DONALD MARGARET WILLIAM MARGARET HELEN JOHN ISABEL PETER WILLIAM JESSIE MACKEITH McGEE = MACKEITH MACKEITH MACKEITH (1833 - ) MACKEITH = BUCHANAN MACKEITH MACKEITH (1815 - 1878) (1834 - 1909) (1816 - 1872) (1831 - ) (1832 - 1928) (1838 - ) (1842 - ) == = JESSIE ALEXANDER == HARRIET MACKLIN == MACKEITH ELDER RELF THE “ENGLISH” McPHIE (1845 - ) (1836 - 1911) MACKEITHS 5 CHILDREN CHRISTINE JOHN MARY MARY WILLIAM ISOBEL GEORGE DONALD DISHINGTON == MACKEITH MACKEITH CONSTABLE == ALEXANDER MACKEITH == ADAM (WILLIE) WILLIAM (1872 - 1949) (1873 - ) ADAM MACKEITH (1878 - 1914) MACKEITH (1892 - 1950) (1876 - 1938) (1880 - 1908) NELLIE THORNTON WOOD == MACKEITH (1874 - 1949) MOIRA WILLIAM ALEXANDER GEORGE WILSON == ALEXANDER (ALASTAIR) ADAM (MAC) ALEXANDER (SANDY) MACKEITH MAY ADAM MACKEITH (1918 - 2007) (1913 - 1943) (1932 - ) 3 4 To Strathyre & Fort William Sketch map of Ruskie and surrounding area SCALE = 1 : 50,000 A84 KEY APPROX 1¼ INCHES = 1 MILE R. Leny 1 LOCH ACHRAy 4 LAKE OF MENTEITH KILMAHOG N Old graveyard 2 LOCH vENACHAR 5 LOCH RUSKIE where John CALLANDER McKiech, the R. Leny 3 LOCH DRUNKIE frst is buried R. Teith A84 Footpath to Balqunidder R. Teith A821 BRIG O’ TURK A821 Old Bridge 1 EAST DULLATER A81 Old Pack Bridge To Trossachs 2 To Douni & Stirling Private Invertrossachs House. Road 3 Probable site of MENTEITH HILLS Balinluig Cottage B822 Dukes’s Pass A821 5 Ruskie Burn A81 MENTEITH HILLS Piece of Old Drove Road PORT OF MENTEITH David Marshall Lodge B829 BLAIRHOYLE Dunaverig ABERFOYLE A873 DAMSIDE / BURNSIDE A821 A81 Cailziemuck Ruskie Lower Easter Tarr 4 House School A873 R. Forth Tarr RUSKIE Site of Old Ruskie Post Goodie Water To Thornhill B8034 A81 Offce now a bungalow & Stirling called “Hogwood” 5 6 DAMSIDE/BURNSIDE - THE MACKEITH FAMILY HOME RUSKIE station, or even from Doune station across the Goudie Water, which was only four miles away across felds, though the older Te hamlet of Ruskie lies on the A873 between Aberfoyle and members probably used a horse-drawn conveyance. Ruskie could Stirling, approximately three miles from the Port of Menteith on the also be reached by motor bus and before that by a ‘Post Gig’. In later lake of the same name (the only Lake in Scotland!). It fgures in a years members of the family would travel to Burnside by car. book ‘Te Lake of Menteith’, published at the end of the 19th century. It refers to a Castle of Rusky; this may have been a castle on an island in the lake, the remains of which are shown on THE FIRST JOHN MCKIECH Ordnance Survey maps, or another castle, the remains of which are shown on maps about a mile to the north-east of the Port of Te earliest known member of the MacKeith family was John Menteith. A further reference in the book is made to a clan battle McKiech (the earlier spelling of the family name, used until the between the Drummonds and the Menteiths in the middle of the middle of the 19th century; an account of the origins and 13th century on the Tar (tor) of Rusky, which lay approximately development of the name is given in Appendix 1). He may well where the remains of the second castle were. have been descended from the MacGregors, whose name was Te hamlet is centred on the Ruskie Burn, which fows downhill banned for parts of the 17th century, so either he or his parents may from Loch Ruskie to the north. Tere is a bridge over the road, and have had that name. He is believed to have originated from Brig’ O on the south of the road lay a school and a hall, which is now used Turk, a little to the north of Ruskie, and lived at a time before the by the local Womens Institute Te family had close connections family owned the house there; records show that he lived south of with the school. Te children living at Burnside went there, even Loch Venachar, about fve miles from Ruskie as the crow fies (see those staying at Burnside for a few weeks; also members of the enclosed sketch map). Te place where he lived is variously family were at times on the school’s governing body. Below the described as Balinluig or Drunkie, the latter being the name of a school buildings was a water mill and there was also a smiddy small loch just to the south-west of Loch Venachar. It appears that (smithy) on the road there. On the other side of the burn down a John was born about 1707 (his gravestone shows that he was 93 track lies Lower Tarr farm, sometimes known as ‘Wester Tarr’, or when he died in 1800) and that he was a tenant farmer of a John just as ‘Tarr’. Up the hill to the west was a garage and a post ofce. Buchan, living in a crof, or cottage, on his land. Te likely position Burnside lies to the north of the road on the west bank of the burn. of Drunkie is now marked on the map as Invertrossachs; it is a very In the 19th century Ruskie could be reached by train to the Port wooded area, with little fat open land, so it must have been hard to of Menteith station, which in fact was not at the Port of Menteith make a living. itself, but on the road south to Arnprior. Tis station was on the It is believed that their crof may still remain as part of the North British line which ran from Glasgow to Stirling. It was the outbuildings of Invertrossachs House (the present Invertrossachs custom of the younger members of the family to walk from that House was re-built as an Edwardian shooting hunting lodge in 1911 7 8 DAMSIDE/BURNSIDE - THE MACKEITH FAMILY HOME and so is not the original Drunkie House, which had been re- his wife, Janet Senine, over the entrance. Donald Fisher is described named Invertrossachs House). in deeds as a mallster, and so the house was probably used as an inn In about 1741 John McKiech married Katherine McGregor, who initially (when it ceased to be used as that is not clear). Te was nine years younger than him and is also recorded as having been property then passed to his son, John, and it was he who sold it to born at Drunkie, Tey had two sons, Donald, who was born in 1742, Peter Graham on his return to Scotland. Peter Graham probably did and Peter, about whom nothing appears to have been known. Tere not live in the property, but leased it to a John and James are no baptismal records for a son Peter. It would seem more sensible MacArthur for a period of 21 years. Peter Graham died in to assume that this son Peter was one and the same as their foster September, 1782, but three months before his death he gave it to son Peter Graham. At some time later in the century the family John McKiech, presumably in acknowledgement of the kindness moved to a property, East Dullater, to the east along Loch Venachar. which he and his family had shown him, and perhaps also because It is probable that John McKiech, or his son, Donald, was still a he had no children. John gave the property to his son, Donald, tenant, either of the same landlord or a diferent one. three months later. (Tis was the time of the 1745 Rebellion – for an account of the (For a verse account of how the family came to own Damside - family’s involvement – see Appendix 2) see Appendix 3) DAMSIDE DESCRIPTION OF DAMSIDE AND ITS LAND It was during this period that an event occurred which is part of Te following is a description of Damside as it was then and the family folklore. One dark and stormy night a boy or youth, called land which went with it (see enclosed sketch).
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