Annals of Woodside and Newhills: historical and genealogical

Front matter

ANNALS OF AVOODSIDE AND NEWHILLS. Copies Printed. Burgh of Woodsidenear Aberdeen ANNALS OF WOODSIDE AND NEWHILLS: HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL. P,Y^ PATRICK MORGAN. ABERDEEN: DAVID WYLLIE AND SON. 1886. TO Sir JOHN ANDERSON, Kt., LL.D., C.E., F.R.S. E., M.I.C.E., F.S.A., OFFICER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR, FRANCE; KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF FRANZ JOSEPH, AUSTRIA; A DISTINGUISHED NATIVE AND MUNIFICENT BENEFACTOR OF THE BURGH OF WOODSIDE; IN RECOGNITION OF HIS EMINENT ABILITIES AND ESTIMABLE CHARACTER, AND OF A PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP EXTENDING OVER MANY YEARS, TEbese annals ARE DEDICATED WITH MUCH RESPECT BY PATRICK MORGAN. Aberdeen, May, 1SS0. ILLUSTRATIONS. View of Woodside - Facing Title Page Quarto Map - - - between Pages C and 7 The Woodside Burgh Hull - Page 9 Woodside Parish Church ------ 11 Woodside Mansion House - - - -12 Woodside Works ------- 19 ( Hd " Barracks," Woodside - - 23 Grandholm Works --------- 58 St. Machar Cathedral (J. Mitchell) - 76 Woodside Congregational Church ------- SO Woodside Free Church ------- -84 Memorial Tablet— Rev. Andrew Gray ------- 86 Temporary Woodside Free Church (1843) ------- S8 Memorial Tablet— Rev. Robert Forbes ... - - 00 United Presbyterian Church ------ - 92 Woodside Public School - - 94 James Clark's School .-_-.--.- ioo Memorial Tablet — Irvine Kempt - 112 Anderson Free Library - ------- ng Portrait of Sir John Anderson (G. 11.

Gowaiu;) - 124 Memorial Tablet — Rev. William Shepherd - - - - 12s Ruins of Newhills Parish Church - - - 136 ,, ,, Second View ------ 140 Fac-simile of Old Map (1776) ----- 104 Stoney wood Paper Works - - - 176 Mupiemoss Paper Works ------ igg Kingswells Mansion House - - . - CONTENTS. TAGE. Preface - 7 The Burgh of Woodsiijl - - - 9 The Estate of Woodside - - 12 Woodside Works - 19 Middlefield - - 3*-> The Lands of Cotton - - 4° Tanfield - - 5° Hilton - 54 Grandholm Works - - - 58 The Hadden Family GS Gordon's Mills - 7 ' Inverurie Road and Aberdeenshire Canal - - 77 Woodside Churches - - - - So „ Schools - 94 „ Libraries ■ - - - 96 „ Temperance, &c. - 9$ „ Poets - - 99 „ Doctors - - 107 Prominent Natives - - - - - 1 1 1 Newhills - - J30 Hill of Brimmond - '33 The Kirk of Newhills 136 The Ministers of Newhills - - U3 Craibstone, &c. - - - '49 The Sandilands Family - T 59 Stoney wood ... 164 The Moir Family - l67 The Greenburn Market - - '73 Papermaking at Stoneywood - ]75 CONTENTS.

Newhills — (Continued). page. Stoneywood Paper Works - - 1S1 Alexander Pirie, Junior - 1S2 Mugiemoss - - 186 Mugiemoss Paper Works - 187 Old Mansion House of Stoneywood 190 Sclattie - - 19+ Buxburn - - 197 Lint Mill at Buxburn - - - 198 Culter and Devanha Paper Mills - - 202 Auchmull - - - 206 Schools and Institutions - 216 Kingswells - - - - 219 Provost Jaffray - 219 Barclays of Urie - - 232 Lilias Skene - - - 235 Dr. Francis Edmond, Advocate - , 236 Artists - - 23S Appendlx - - 241 Letter from the Committee of Burgesses for Reform 243 Proceedings of Burgesses at the Head Court - - 245 Patrick Barren's Will - - 249 Boundary of the Burgh of Woodside - - 251 „ Woodside Quoad Sacra Parish - 252 Population of Woodside - - 252 „ Woodside Parish - - - 253 „ Newhills Parish - - - - 253 „ Milages in Newhills Parish - - 254 Gordon, Barren, & Co. - - - - * 254 The Bannerman Family - - 254 Printfield Foundry - . 260 John Barker & Sons - 260 Petition to the Sheriff from the .Managers of Woodside Chapel 261 Index - - -