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Minishant is a bonnie wee place. Portrait of a Village by Henrietta and Hugh Douglas. Line drawings by Michael Ellis. Strathprint, 146 Broadway Peterborough. First Published 1982. Copyright © Permission for display on this site granted by Hugh Douglas. You may view and download chapters of this book for personal research purposes only. No other distribution of this text is authorized. Click here for other books by Hugh Douglas. Cover: Mrs. Margaret Limond, was Minishant postmistress until she died aged 94.

 

PRINCIPAL HOUSES:
Auchendrane °Hon. T.G.D. Galbraith, M.P
Cassillis The Marquess of Ailsa
Grange William Morrison
Monkwood Commander John Hamilton
Otterden *Mrs. Katherine Cross 
Sauchrie James Wilson 
°Died January 1982
*Died August 1981

 

FARMS:
Blackbyres Donald McQuaker
Craigskean John Kerr
Crorieshill Thomas Sloan
Grange Mains John Kerr
High Pinmore Alexander Eccles
High Smithston John Mair
Kewnston John Wyllie
Knockdon Derek Cross
Laigh Grange Robert Drummond
Laigh Smithson Adam McConnell
Low Milton James Guthrie
Low Pinmore Gilbert Eccles
Laigh Midton            ) Part of Auchendrane estates
Monkwood Mains    ) Houses let separately
New Mills of Monkwood Alfred McQuater
Sauchrie Mains William Kerr
Whiteleys William Guthrie