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HELENSBURGH GUIDE.
enviable position in the freebooting annals of the country.
For about a couple of centuries this family possessed a very
considerable influence, not only locally, but in the stormy
annals of the Scottish nation. Theii* power, however, de-
clined with the seventeenth century ; and about the middle
of the eighteenth, they had parted with the last of their
possession here. Ardencaple fell into the hands of a branch
^rdencaple ©astle,
of the Argyll family; was for years possessed by the Duchess-
Dowager of Argyll, and was, about five years since, pur-
chased, along with the estates by Sir James Colquhoun of
Luss, by whom the lands are now offered to feu, and the
ground ha^ been broken by the erection of a princely mansion
HELENSBURGH GUIDE.
enviable position in the freebooting annals of the country.
For about a couple of centuries this family possessed a very
considerable influence, not only locally, but in the stormy
annals of the Scottish nation. Theii* power, however, de-
clined with the seventeenth century ; and about the middle
of the eighteenth, they had parted with the last of their
possession here. Ardencaple fell into the hands of a branch
^rdencaple ©astle,
of the Argyll family; was for years possessed by the Duchess-
Dowager of Argyll, and was, about five years since, pur-
chased, along with the estates by Sir James Colquhoun of
Luss, by whom the lands are now offered to feu, and the
ground ha^ been broken by the erection of a princely mansion
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| Scottish Post Office Directories > Towns > Helensburgh > Battrum's guide and directory to Helensburgh and neighbourhood > (50) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/85142386 |
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| Description | On title page: Macneur & Bryden's - late W. Battrum's - Guide and directory to Helensburgh and neighbourhood. Seventh edition. |
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| Shelfmark | R.242.h.1(2) |
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| Description | Directories of individual Scottish towns and their suburbs. |
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| Description | Around 700 Scottish directories published annually by the Post Office or private publishers between 1773 and 1911. Most of Scotland covered, with a focus on Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen. Most volumes include a general directory (A-Z by surname), street directory (A-Z by street) and trade directory (A-Z by trade). |
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