Cameronian James Torrance

Covenanters.

The Scottish Covenanters were those who opposed the Stuart Kings of Britain trying to impose themselves as head of the church in place of Jesus Christ. Many Scots signed the National Covenant of 1638 and thereafter for the next fifty years were persecuted and punished for their beliefs that Jesus Christ was the head o fthe Scottish Kirk (church). Meeting in the hill and moor country the worshiped at great risk in the form of conventicles taking the service from deposed ministers or preachers.

Richard Cameron being one outlawed preacher who declared war on the king, his followers being called Cameronians. Hence the practices of their worship carried on through the years of the regiment, sentries armed at church service and the conventicle itself.

Stonehouse Covenanters.

Walk out to Airds Moss Richard Cameron Memorial.

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https://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/prisoners-taken-at-james-renwicks-preaching-at-stonehouse-church-in-1686/

Drumclog Memorial Church. The original stone from the Battle of Drumclog.		Drumclog Church.

James Gavin. The cave where James Gavin hid by the village of Douglas.		James Thomson A Covenanter from Tanhill farm Stonehouse Lanarkshire killed at the battle of Drumclog. The original stone which has a table stone behind from 1800's.

Blood stone Also known as the blood stone, a trick from many a generation of youngsters was to put a wet finger into the hole which came out red as blood. Really a vein in the sandstone.		Douglas Museum. A great wee museum with lots of Covenanting and Cameronian History. Andy and the dummy getting to know each other.

Covenanter Banner Drumclog

		Covenanters Prison Greyfriars.

Wreath Greyfriars.





Trumpeters Well. Well at Caldermill where Covenanters caught Claverhouses trumpeter after battle of Drumclog.		Auchengelloch monument. On the wild Lanarkshire moors of Lesmahagow Parish Auchengelloch glen was the site of conveticles having four hills above as sentry points. A once favourite walk of mine from Lamhill farm Strathaven.

Jim Poulton. Jim at Greyfriar's Covenanter Prison memorial service.		James Nisbet. A writing by James Nisbet of Hardhill, Fenwick telling of how he hid in the wilds around my cousin's farm of Dornal and Guelt on the Upper reaches of the Glenmuir river Cumnock.

National Covenant Greyfriars Church Edinburgh.		Covenanter Cairn Douglas. Cairn in the village with the little Gavin carved with his tailors tools upon his return from the west Indies.

James Gavin Memorial.		Neckline Ayrshire. Some interesting memorials in the Old churchyard Newmilns Ayrshire.



James Davie, Bathgate, New memorial. An invite to a service on 26th June in Bathgate in memory of James Davie and to dedicate the memorial to him.		James Davie, Bathgate, New memorial. Edinburgh Road Bathgate, look for gates across from tennis courts.



		Hamilton Heads Memorial. Stone in Hamilton Old Churchyard. one of the first my dad took me to visit, an old pic 1980's.

Mary Rae's Well Bellshill. A rededicated memorial which now stands in a housing development in Bellshill Lanarkshire. When i first visited with dad it was a field, stopping on his delivery rounds.		Mary Rae's Well Piquet. The Cameronians provided a Piquet at four points of the compass for the memorial conventicle. Duncan Mcleod who played around the well as a youngster and Tam McLeish.

Dunkeld battle memorial story.		william Cleland Grave.

Andy Steel. Service and picquet at mary Rae's well 13th Aug 2015.

		Castle Dangerous Douglas. Legendary home of the Douglas Family founders of Cameronian Regiment.

Colonel Church. Deep in the heart of the Ayrshire Galloway Covenanter Country. Wild lonely desolate.		Matthew Macwraith. Shot by Claverhouses and his Dragoons 1685 Colmonell.

Earl of Angus. Earl of Angus statue, Douglas Lanarkshire.

		Covenanter Memorial Lady Watson Estate Hamilton. Thanks Jim Poulton.

Grass market Edinburgh. Site of where Covenanter Martyrs were hung in the Grass market Edinburgh.		Lanark St leonard's Cemetery.

Lanarkshire.

Lanark.		Fenwick Ayrshire.

		Greyfriars Edinburgh. Covenanter Prison on a wet January. Thanks to Tam McLeish for following four also.



		Barr Village South Ayrshire.

Barr Village South Ayrshire.		Old Dailly South Ayrshire.

Old Dailly South Ayrshire.		Reverend Robert Cleland. Former Church of Scotland Minister of St Brides Douglas and of Cameronians, direct descendant of William Cleland first Colonel of the Cameronians Regiment.

Pedens grave Cumnock Ayrshire.		Cumnock Mayrters.





Old Dailly South Ayrshire. Memorial to the parish Covenanters who suffered for their beliefs.		Greyfriars Edinburgh July 2016.

Galston Conventicle.		Galston Conventicle.

Lanark Conventicle. New plaque by Scottish Covenanters Memorials Society.		Earl of Angus Memorial Douglas.

Glassford Graves. Thanks Shona McLean.		Irvine Martyrs Grave. Billy Kerr giving guided tour August 2018.