Kerelaw House

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Kerelaw House was a country house in the city of Stevenston in the Scotland administrative unit North Ayrshire .

history

Coat of arms of the Hamiltons of Grange

The house was built in 1787 in the Palladian style for Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton (a relative of Alexander Hamilton , one of the founders of the United States). Hamilton died in 1837 with no heirs, leaving substantial debts. Captain Logan Neely , a nephew of Alexander Hamilton, inherited the house and in 1838 was forced to move it along with the rest of the estate and the ruins of Kerelaw Castle to Gavin Fullarton, Esq. to sell a retired West India merchant. This Fullarton family was a subsidiary of the Fullartons of Kirkmichael on the Isle of Arran , who had a charter from King Robert the Bruce . The family had the hereditary status of coroner on the Isle of Arran. Their family motto was: "Lux in tenebris" (Eng: The light shines in the dark).

The ruins of Kerelaw Castle in 1890 with the golden rain that David Livingstone had sent from Africa.

In 1919 James Campbell bought the house. Campbell and his family (including his son, Kenneth Campbell , who would later become aviator in World War II ) were the last occupants of the house. In 1969 the City of Glasgow Education Authority bought Kerelaw House and in 1970 Kerelaw Residential School , a boarding school , opened there. The house was supposed to serve as an office for the school, but was instead torn down.

description

Kerelaw House was built in the Adam style and was a tall three-story stone building . It had five yokes , the middle of which was particularly wide and protruded slightly. As a typical Adam style detail, there is a Venetian window in a slightly recessed blind arch above the Doric entrance hall . A long driveway leads to the house from the nearby road; it still exists today and served as an entrance to the boarding school. Otherwise there are no more remains of the country house.

Mayville House

Davis calls this property an "exceptionally attractive and beautiful little country house" that was built around 1720 for Robert Baillie , father of Lesley Baillie , who Robert Burns used as a model for his character "Bonnie Lesley". The property became part of the Kerelaw Estate until it was sold by Mr. James Campbell in 1914 .

Hullerhirst House

This small 18th century home was believed to be Kerelaw House's widow's home.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ George Robertson, A genealogical account of the principal families in Ayrshire . P. Cunninghame, Irvine & Constable, Edinburgh 1823-1825. Plate 6.
  2. ↑ Michael Davis: The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire . MC Davis, Ardrishaig, Argyll 1991. p. 292.
  3. ↑ a b c Kerelaw House in The Kilmarnock Standard , April 5, 1924.
  4. ↑ a b James Clements: First Treasurer, USA Chapter: General Alexander Hamilton . Pp. 54-56.
  5. ^ A b James Paterson: History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton . Volume 3. James Stillie, Edinburgh 1863–1866.
  6. ↑ a b c R. McSherry, M. McSherry: Old Stevenston . Stenlake Publishing, Catrine 1998.
  7. ↑ a b Michael Davis: The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire . MC Davis, Ardrishaig, Argyll 1991. pp. 287, 327.

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Coordinates: 55 ° 38 ′ 56.4 "  N , 4 ° 45 ′ 15.5"  W.