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NEW CUMNOCK

History of the parish of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

© Robert Guthrie

WILLIAM WALLACE

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'The Early Years
c.1274-1296

'The Wallace Years'
1297-1305

Wallace's dwelling at
New Cumnock

Sources and Acknowledgements

Sources

Anne McKim (Editor)  ' The Wallace, Blind Harry', Canongate Classics, 2003
Elspeth King  'Blind Harry's Wallace, William Hamilton of Gilbertfield', Luath Press, 1998
Dr. Fiona Watson 'A Report into Sir William Wallace's connections with Ayrshire'
Alexander Bru
nton 'The Life and Heroic Actions of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie', (Edinburgh and Glasgow,1883)
Andrew Fisher  'William Wallace',
.Birlinn Limited, 2002
Tom Scott 'Tales of Sir William Wallace', Gordon Wright Publishing, 1981
James Mackay 'William Wallace Brave Heart', 1995
G.W.S. Barrow 'Robert Bruce', Edinburgh University Press, 1988
Ronald McNair Scott 'Robert the Bruce King of Scots', Canongate Publishing Ltd., 1982
W.F.Skene 'John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation', Llanerch Publishers, 1993
Sir Herbert Maxwell 'The Chronicle of Lanercost', Llanerch Press, 2001
Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland Vol V.

Hugh Lorimer 'A Corner of Old Strathclyde', 1951
Rev. Warwick 'The History of Old Cumnock', 1899
John Strawhorn 'Ayrshire, The Story of a County', AANHS, 1975
James Paterson 'History of the County of Ayr', 1871
George McMichael 'Notes on the Way through Ayrshire'
Rev. Matthew Kirkland, New Statistical Account, 1838
John Smith 'Prehistoric Man in Ayrshire', 1895
Thomas Kirkland 'New Cumnock School-fellows Annual Magazine', 1898
Helen J. Steven 'the Cumnocks Old and New', 1899
Donald McIver 'A Stroll through the Historic Past of New Cumnock' ,2000
William McDowall 'History of Dumfries', 1867

Maps
Armstrong Map of Ayrshire, 1775
Timothy Pont , Manuscript 35 ' Nithsdale and part of Teviotdale' ca. 1590
George Taylor and Andrew Skinner  ' The Road from Glasgow to Ayr, & from Glasgow & Kilmarnock to Sanquhar & Dumfries'.  
Ordnance Survey
 
 

Dr. Fiona Watson'sReport

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Wallace's Dwelling
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