Abt 1599 - 1632 (33 years)
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| Name |
Alexander Colquhoun |
| Birth |
Abt 1599 |
Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
18 Jun 1632 |
Tullichewan, Bonhill, Dunbarton, Scotland |
| Person ID |
I144079 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Apr 2020 |
| Father |
Alexander (Alasdir) Lord Colquhoun, 15th of Colqhoun and 17th of Luss, b. 1573, Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland d. 23 May 1617, Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (Age 44 years) |
| Mother |
Helen (Margaret) Buchanan, b. 1574, Buchanan parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland d. Luss, Dunbartonshire, Scotland |
| Marriage |
18 Aug 1595 |
| Family ID |
F47010 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- 1 - Tullichewan Castle - The land just to the front of Sheildaig Farm is home to the remains of Tullichewan Castle. The architect Robert Lugar, who also designed Balloch Castle, designed the castle. It is the first example in Scotland of an asymmetrical Gothic house. The Horrocks family purchased the castle in 1817, where they lived until 1843. The estate was then sold to William Campbell of J & W Campbell, Glasgow merchants. The estate remained in the Campbell family until the twentieth century. The last owner of the castle was J. Scott Anderson, who lived there from about 1930. Mr Anderson vacated the castle when the WRNS and naval personnel requisitioned it early on in the Second World War. Latterly the castle was used as accommodation for workers at the Torpedo factory which now houses the Loch Lomond Factory Outlets. After that it lay unused for many years before being demolished in 1954.
Today, little remains of Tullichewan Castle and the estate, since a dual carriageway now crosses the site of the former castle and the estate is covered by housing developments and the Vale of Leven Hospital. The former stables and a fragment of the tower can be seen from the A82; or, as the land now belongs to Sheildaig Farm if you walk through the wooded land you can see where some of the formal gardens and the Castle's curling pond were situated. Ask us for directions as most of this area is very overgrown now. The south lodge gatehouse can still be seen on Main Street, Alexandria, just north of the entrance to Christie Park. The old walled orchard, which belonged to the estate, is now part of Tullichewan caravan site.
[http://www.sheildaigfarm.co.uk/history.htm]
2 - Tullichewan Castle was "erected" in 1792_ Purchased in 1843 by Wm. Campbell & occupied till his death in 1864.
[a book called Records and Reminiscences of Bonhill Parish by John Neill.]
3 - Balloch Castle
Located within the grounds of Balloch Castle Country Park, near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire, Balloch Castle dates from 1808 when it was built for the Vale of Leven textile magnate John Stirling. The former mansion house, originally called Tullichewan Castle, is now used as a visitor centre for the Country Park. An earlier castle near this site was built by the Earls of Lennox in 1238, and the surrounding moat still being visible
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