Perth: Street by Street is an architectural, archaeological, geographical, historical, and visual journey around the city of Perth’s c.630 streets, avenues, closes, roads, and vennels. Drawing on a range of disciplines, Perth: Street by Street will appeal both to those readers interested in the history and life of Perth, and to anyone who has lived, worked, or spent time in Scotland’s Fair City. For the people of Perth and those who hail from St John’s Town, the book will be particularly poignant. Within its pages, readers may find their own homes, place of birth, workplaces, schools, favourite shops, and the public architecture and civic backdrop which form a part of their everyday existence. The book is available online from Amazon and other internet retailers, and from the following bookshops: Waterstones (Perth), WHSmith (Perth), Sweet Words (Dunkeld), as well as from Gloagburn Farm Shop by Tibbermore.
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Haldane, Threipland and Other Feudal Landowners
Threipland Family of Perthshire Recorded as existing in Perth from 1600 Patrick Threipland was a merchant, magistrate and Provost (1665). He was knighted in 1674 and made a Baron in 1687. In 1672 he bought the estate of Fingask (Carse of Gowrie). As a result of being an active Jacobite he was imprisoned in Stirling Castle and died within in 1689. Both son and grandson also staunch Jacobites died fighting for the Stuart succession. A grandson, Stuart Threipland became physician to Bonnie Prince Charlie. He was forced to go abroad after the failure of the 1745 uprising. With the amnesty of 1747 he returned home. Success in Edinburgh allowed him to buy back the family lands at Fingask in 1783. He married Janet Budge-Murray and extended his lands with those in Caithness. The baronetcy was restored in 1826. The 5th baronet, Patrick Murray-Threipland died without heir and so the title ended. A cousin, William Scott-Kerr of Chatto took the lands and the name Murray Threipland – his descendents remain at Fingask today. Perth and Kinross Council Archive contains a substantial amount of the Threipland family papers: www.pkc.gov.gov/archives
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