The photographs on this page were
taken by Sandy Pittendreigh, of Dumfries in Scotland, who has kindly consented
to sharing them. Sandy has taken hundreds of wonderful photographs of the Dumfriesshire
& Galloway countryside. Once you've had a look at these you are invited
to explore Sandy's wonderful website, especially his D&G TOUR at http://www.hometown.aol.com/sypittdfs/
It provides a "virtual tour" of the places our ancestors lived in
Dumfries and Galloway, as well as links to other sites on the history and culture
of Scotland ... And for Virtual Tours of D&G Hills, including the places here,
try
http://www.pitt-dds.co.uk/hillwalking/
Selcoth is where John Borthwick and Elizabeth Dinwoodie lived when their som William Murray Borthwick was born on 13 (or 5) May 1782. William Murray Borthwick was baptised in Moffat on 19 May 1782.
Other Borthwick families lived in Ettrick, quite near Selcoth. One such family was the Alexander Hay Borthwick family, some of whom came to Australia in 18??. Members of this family married Scotts and Beatties from the same area and they too ventured to Australia.
Alexander Hay Borthwick Jnr and his twin brother, William, settled in Victoria and their uncle, John James Malcolm Borthwick became an early settler at Nanango in Queensland. John James Malcolm returned to Scotland after 12 years in Australia but his nephews remained and there are are many descendants of William Borthwick in Australia today. (Although there were other Alexander Hay Borthwicks in Australia, all from the same family, this particular Alexander Hay Borthwick had only one child, a daughter Agnes who died young.)
It is quite possible that these Ettrick, Ewes families were cousins of our William Murray Borthwick but there is no real evidence yet to confirm that.
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