This file contains the following items relating to members of the Seaton family,
specifically John Seaton and his grandson Company Sergeant Major Thomas
Anderson Seaton of Cornharrow, Dalry.
Photograph of Alexander McKay. McKay, Alexander, 1841-1917 : Fragments of the life history of Alexander McKay. Ref: MS-1177-001. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22503350
Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection. Ref: PAColl-8550-29. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23085183
Geologist hammering a stake into a trench to locate its position. Trenches are excavated to collect rock samples for chemical analysis, in areas where chemically anomalous chip/soil samples have been collected.
Field Technicians collecting rock chip/soil samples for geological examination and chemical analysis. The samples are collected using a hydraulically operated jack-hammer that drives a steel sampling bit through the peat and clay until bedrock is reached. Equipment is carried up the hill using a six wheel drive all terrain vehicle.
Geologist examining an outcrop of chert which is a chemical sediment deposited on the ocean floor during the Ordovician period, approximately 450 million years ago.
First Session meeting for two years. Kirk Session reduced, apparently to one elder. Rev. S Blair, Dalry appointed by Presbytery to attend to enable quorum for meeting to be constituted for ordination of three elders.
(copy)
Robert and Elizabeth Wilson and their family. Standing L-R James born 1885, Nannie, Willie born 1883. Seated L-R Archie born 1881, Robert born 1825, Elizabeth born 1848, ?. In front John born 1890.
Unknown location
Inscription: Gifted to Carsphairn Heritage Centre by Mrs Jean (Wilson) Stoddart, Dalbeattie and Mrs Betty (Wilson) Watson, Corsock, natives of Barbieston – but not in James McCulloch’s era ! (see page 159), October 2002
