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Stobo
Stobo, in the County of Peebles lies south west of the county town. It is bounded on the north by Kirkurd, Newlands and Lyne. On the west are Peebles and Manor, whilst Drumelzier is to the south and Broughton is on the east. The village is predominately of 19th century origon and straggles along the B712. The church is the most complete and impressive Romanesque parish church in the Borders. Stobo is now one of the linked Parishes of Upper Tweeddale.
Old Parish Records cover the periods:
Births: 1783-1854 (Mothers' names are not recorded until September 1802)
Marriages: 1783-1818, 1820-1854 (There is only one entry Jun 1787-Dec 1790)
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Volumes available for consultation within our Archive
Pre 1855 Monumental Inscriptions of Peeblesshire by S.A. Scott published by Scottish Genealogical Society 1971.
Rutherford's Southern Counties Register and Directory 1867.
County Directory of Scotland 1912 - Borders Towns and Villages.
C.D. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Peebles 1652 to 1716.
1841 Census - Stobo, G&E Maxwell
1851 Census - Stobo, G&E Maxwell
1861 Census - Stobo, G&E Maxwell
Stobo Death Records 1819-1854, Nigel Hardie, Selkirk Genealogy
Magazine Articles
Please note that the heading Author includes persons who have compiled or transcribed records; and that the topics indexed, and the synopses are subjective opinions. See the Sales List to buy copies of the magazines containing articles in which you're interested.
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Synopsis
Size Description
Issue No
Author
From Peebleshire to Canada: William Cranston Murray - An Artist in Architecture
The story of the architect William Cranston Murray from Peeblesshire who went to Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada, and joined the growing Scottish community (about 2,000 people) there in 1819. Born in Stobo in 1788, his father James was a shepherd. James' first wife Elizabeth (b. about 1761) died and was buried in Stobo Kirk graveyard in 1842. William married Alexanderina Hislop from Glenholm, and their son James was born 1814 in Drumelzier. By 1825 the population of the Miramichi are had grown to about 8,500. The account summarises Murray's major works in the New Brunswick area, many as a result of the Great Miramichi fire in the October of 1825 i.e. St Paul's Anglican Church (Bushville), Judge Peters stately home (Bushville), Murray House , St James Presbyterian and St John United churches, Old Northumberland County Courthouse - all in (Newcastle). In addition there is an attempt at creating a detailed family tree of the Murray family following William's 10 children, of which only 6 names are known. The children of first son James (13), and daughter Margaret (8).
7 pages or more
106
Barbara MacIntosh
Charlotte Loggie
The Altarstone at Stobo
Stobo Slate Quarry 'whatever'. Also a connection to Merlin and Arthur.
1 page or more
10
Isobel Jardine
My dig into the past
Peeblesshire family and from other parts of the Borders, an interesting tale.
Also history of various bridges over the Tweed.
3 pages or more
34
A. Turner
Map of Stobo from UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey one-inch to the mile (1:63,360), 'Hills' edition, 1885-1903 by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland. Use the control at the top left of the map to zoom in or out and drag the map left, right, up, or down as you wish.
Map of Stobo from UK Ordnance Survey Historical Maps from 1919-1947 by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland. Use the control at the top left of the map to zoom in or out and drag the map left, right, up, or down as you wish.
Other Sources
The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, Cruft, Dunbar & Fawcett, Yale University Press, London 2006
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland compiled initially between 1791 and 1799, with a subsequent edition between 1834 and 1845 are a valuable record of the geography, history, economy, people and customs recorded by local ministers. You'll need to search for the parish name.
