Parton, Dumfries an Gallowa

Coordinates: 55°00′29″N 4°02′31″W / 55.008°N 4.042°W / 55.008; -4.042

Parton is a clachan situatit on the baunks o the River Dee in the historical coonty o Kirkcoubrieshire, Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland.

Namely biggins

Parton Row is the name o cots rebuilt in 1901 bi the laird, Benjamin Rigby Murray, o Parton Hoose. Ane wis uised as a leebrary an readin room. The clock tour wis addit tae an existin byre bit later convertit til a steamie. In later years the biggin nearist the haw wis the veelage shap an post office, an wish the hame o Sam Callander (1992-2012) that devotit a muckle o his lilfe tae promuivin the memory o James Clerk Maxwell.

Murray built an aw the veelage haw in 1908 wi the motto ower the entry "Floreat Partona"

Parton railwey station wis pairt o the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway line, bit closed in 1965. The station biggin wis convertit til a preevat hoose.

Parton Kirk

Parton Kirk is bi Walter Newall an wis built in 1832-3. O the auld kirk o circa 1593 anely the east gavel waw survives and serves as pairt o the buirial hainin o James Clerk Maxwell, his guidwife Katherine Clerk Maxwell, an the Rigby-Murrays o Parton. The aik poupit fae Auld Parton Kirk datit tae 1598 is noo in the National Museum o Scotland in Edinburgh. It beirs the initals "I.G." for John Glendonwyn o Patron, patron o the pairish kirk whase airms are includit in the cairved decorement.^[1]

Kenspeckle mathemical pheesicist James Clerk Maxwell bade at the nearby Glenlair Hoose. He wis famous for developin formulae governin electricity an magnetism as weel as the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distreebution in the kinetic theory o gases. He is commemoratit bi a moniment aside the Parton war memorial afore the kirk.

Buirit in the kirkyaird an aw is Maxwell's faither John Clerk Maxwell o Middlebie, an Elma Yerburgh (1864-1946)^[2] o the Thwaites Brewery faimily fae Blackburn, Lancashire that bade at nearby Barwhillanty.^[3] Buirit here an aw is Dr David Summers (1947-2009), pheesicist and poet o Napier University, Edinburgh.[1] [2] Archived 2019-04-28 at the Wayback Machine Dr Summers bade in Parton Row.

Estates

Airds o Parton - bi Peddie an Kinnear, airchitects, 1884, umwhile hame o Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan (1866-1925), MP for Gallowa.[3] Archived 2019-02-09 at the Wayback Machine

Barwhillanty - bi airchitect A Thompson, 1887, hame o the Yerburghs o the Daniel Thwaites breein faimily.[4] Archived 2020-03-21 at the Wayback Machine

Glenlaggan - hame o the Sanderson faimily, stuid o an heich blet leukin ootower Loch Ken, demolisht 1950s

Glenlair - hame o James Clerk Maxwell. Hoose bi Walter Newall, 1830, addeetions for Maxwell bi Peddie an Kinnear in 1884. Pairtial malafoustert bi fire in 1929, unnergaun restoration bi the Glenlair Trust.[5]

Parton Hoose - umwhile the seat o the auld Catholic Glendonwyn faimly and lter the Rigby-Murrays. Veesitit bi Robert Burns an his freed John Syme on thair first Tour o Gallowa on 27 Julie 1793.[6]^{[deid airtin]} An 18t century big hoose, replace't wi a Victorian big hoose in 1884, demolisht 1966, a modren hoose is nou on the site. In the grunds is the remeens o the Catholic hamelt chaipel an priest's hoose.[7] Archived 2020-03-21 at the Wayback Machine

James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell
Heid-stane of James Clerk Maxwell, his paurents an his guidwife. It lies within the ruins of the Auld Kirk in the buirial grund of Parton Kirk.
Clerk Maxwell faimily heid-stane in detail.
Memorial stane, on the richt is Sam Callander (1922 - 2012) o Parton, that devotit mickle o his life to promuivin the memory of Maxwell.
Detail of memorial stane to James Clerk Maxwell afore Parton Kirk.
Parton Kirk an auld kirk and kirkyaird
Parton Village Hall
Heid-stanes of the Rigby-Murrays in the buirial hainin at Parton Kirk.
Glenlair
Glenlair Brig

References

↑ "Pulpit of oak from Parton Church". National Museums of Scotland. n.d. Archived frae the original on 25 Februar 2019. Retrieved 24 Februar 2019.
↑ "Monumental Inscriptions at Parton Kirkyard". www.kirkyards.co.uk. Retrieved 13 Februar 2011.
↑ "The Woodfold Estate". Documents relating to the Woodfold Estate, Pleasington, Blackburn. The National Archives. Retrieved 13 Februar 2011.

External links

Transcriptions an Photaes of Heid-stanes in Parton Kirkyaird
https://canmore.org.uk/site/183736/airds-of-parton-house Archived 2020-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
https://canmore.org.uk/site/208721/barwhillanty-lodge Archived 2020-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
https://canmore.org.uk/site/200152/parton-house Archived 2020-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
https://canmore.org.uk/site/210446/glenlaggan-house Archived 2020-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
https://canmore.org.uk/site/208721/barwhillanty-lodge Archived 2020-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=215110
http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/collections/object_detail/3.6162.a-c^{[deid airtin]}
http://www.davidsummerstrust.org.uk/obituary/
https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/david-summers-physicist-and-poet-1-768613 Archived 2019-04-28 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "Pulpit of oak from Parton Church". National Museums of Scotland. n.d. Archived frae the original on 25 Februar 2019. Retrieved 24 Februar 2019.

[2] "Monumental Inscriptions at Parton Kirkyard". www.kirkyards.co.uk. Retrieved 13 Februar 2011.

[3] "The Woodfold Estate". Documents relating to the Woodfold Estate, Pleasington, Blackburn. The National Archives. Retrieved 13 Februar 2011.

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