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Carola Macaulay
Carola Macaulay born Carola Young (1682 – unknown) was a milliner who unusually was a woman trading in Edinburgh. She married Archibald Macauley and he was allowed to trade because he was married to Carola. Life Macaulay was born in 1682 in Kippen which is a village between Balloch, West Dunbartonshire, Balloch on Loch Lomond and the county town of Stirling. She was one of the three children born to Margaret (born MacFarlane) and Robert Young. Her father was Kippen's reverend minister. She and Helen Gilchrist set up in the millinery business under the trading name of Carola Young & Co. They had a shop and they were allowed to trade in Edinburgh because they paid a fee to the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. She traded with Robert Blackwood who was an influential member of the company and a friend. file:Archibald Macaulay 3xLord Provost of Edinburgh by George Chalmers.jpg, Archibald Macaulay 3 times Lord Provost of Edinburgh by George Chalmers (artist), George Chalmers On 19 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kippen
Kippen is a village in west Stirlingshire, Scotland. It lies between the Gargunnock Hills and the Fintry Hills and overlooks the Carse of Forth to the north. The village is west of Stirling and north of Glasgow. It is south-east of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Scotland's first National Park. The village lies on the line of an eighteenth-century military road between Stirling and Balloch, although a bypass around the village was built in 1971 meaning Kippen no longer lies on the A811. According to the 2001 census, the population of Kippen was 1,140. History Earls of Menteith Kippen's church was first mentioned in public records in the 1300s, though by this time it had been used as the burial place for the Earls of Menteith for many generations. Kippen vine In 1891, Duncan Buchanan planted a vineyard in the village and one of its vines grew to be the largest in the world. The Kippen Vine covered an area of , spreading across four greenhouses. It became a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |