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Garrallan was owned by the Campbell family until 1676 - the Douglas family followed but it became extinct in the male line. Jane Douglas married Hamilton Boswell.

Garrallan House was then owned by Colonel Boswell and later by his son John Boswell , who sold the estate in 1951 to the Stevenson family , who had been long standing tenants of the land on the Garrallan estate.

 

Dane Love in his ‘Pictorial History of Cumnock’ explains that the Garrallan House of the 20th century had been built in stages and had identified five existing date stones from throughout that period namely – 1660, 1678, 1856, 1868 and 1874. The first of these may represent the Restoration of Charles II to the Crown while 1678 marks Hugh Douglas’s succession to Garrallan.

 


Dr. Patrick Douglas (died 1819), who lived here, also owned property in Jamaica and he offered work to Robert BURNS in 1786 - but the poet declined. Burns was a visitor at Garrallan.

See also:
•  Douglas of Garrallan for more on Hugh Douglas
•  Burns and the Douglas connection
   

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Sources for this article include:
  • New Cumnock History; Robert Guthrie


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