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J. J. Hope- Johnstone. We find six out of 120. Take the parish 

 of Kirkpatrick- Juxta. We find six occupiers out of 100. Compare 

 this with the occupiers of the parish of Morton, in Upper Nithsdale, 

 where, out of 378 occupiers, only one Johnstone is enumerated, 

 and it will become evident that in this County, at least, names 

 stick to localities with the same strict range and limits as do the 

 flora and fauna of a district. The division made by mountains and 

 rivers obtains here as in lowlier spheres of life. 



Next to the Johnstones, as representing- the surname of an 

 old historical family, are the Jardines. There are nearly fifty 

 proprietors of them. The Jardines held lands in the parish of 

 Applegarth before the Celtic element in the population was over- 

 laid by the Saxon. Winfredus de Jardme, the first of the name 

 on record, flourished prior to 1153. There are three in Moffat, 

 two in Appleg-arth, ten in Dryfesdale, eight in Lochmaben, four in 

 Hoddam, two in Tundergarth, three in Middlebie, and two in 

 Annan — making thirty-four in Annandale. They do not appear in 

 Eskdale ; but in Dumfries parish there are five, in Torthorwald 

 two, and in five other parishes they muster one in each. It will be 

 thus seen that they cling- to Annandale. 



By far the greatest proprietor in Dumfriesshire is the Duke of 

 Buccleuch, whose family name is Scott. His extensive estates are 

 in Nithsdale and Eskdale, in which districts he holds whole 

 parishes. There appear to be between 30 and 40 proprietors in 

 the County of the name of Scott. The first notice of land being- 

 possessed by this family in the County is as late as 1459, when Sir 

 Walter Scott of Kirkup received a grant of part of the barony of 

 Langholm from King James II. By marriage the Scotts suc- 

 ceeded to the Douglas estates m Nithsdale. The great home of 

 proprietors of this name is the parish of Langholm, wherein no 

 fewer than 25 of them appear in the Valuation Roll. They appear 

 sparingly in Annandale; some eight. In Nithsdale more spar- 

 ingly still. Putting aside the Duke of Buccleuch, I can only find 

 other three in different parishes. In the parish of Morton, Upper 

 Nithsdale, which belongs wholly to the Duke, I find only one entry 

 of a Scott as occupier out of 378. Turning- to Langholm, we have 

 20 Scott occupiers out of 968 entries, which shews by both tests that 

 the Dumfriesshire home of the Scotts is Eskdale, Drumlanrig, in 

 Nithsdale, was only like a shooting lodge, not a permanent home, 

 to the family. 



