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  1. Hype for the Future 74D: Galloway and the Scottish Lowlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    Overview The region known as Galloway, largely associated with the southwest of the country of Scotland, is related to the name for the central City of Glasgow located in Lanarkshire. Outside Lanarkshire, however, the region is also quite notable in a number of surrounding counties, including Ayrshire, Dumfries-shire, Renfrewshire, and possibly Kirkcudbrightshire. Elsewhere in the region, the significance of communities is largely determined by facing the Province of Ulster in Ireland across […]

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  2. #OnThisDay #NorthWallsAndBrims

    Grace Cantley was baptised on 24 September 1835, youngest child of Nathaniel Cantley and Margaret Moar.. Her father was a Chelsea Pensioner and gardener at #Melsetter (the big hoose), originally from #Kirkcudbrightshire.

    Grace married John Wilson, Scews, North Walls, in 1856. They moved to the Crockness area where Grace died on 6 February 1880 shortly after the birth of her ninth child.

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