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Foulden, Berwickshire
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Foulden is an ancient parish and village in Berwickshire, Scotland, situated not far above the Whiteadder Water, and seven miles west of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
It is said to be "one of the most striking village ensembles in the Borders" [1].
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Originally part of the superiority of the Priory of Coldingham (a part of the parish is still called Nunlands), at a very early date it was resigned to the Ramsay family who had it erected into a Free Barony. William de Ramsay swore fealty to King Edward I of England, for his lands of Dalwolsie (Dalhousie), Edinburghshire, and of Foulden, Berwickshire, in 1296, and again in 1304.
One of this family, George, lived in a tower house at Foulden Bastel and died in January 1592, his tomb is extant. His son James was residing at the Bastel in 1618 [2].
In the 17th century the barony of Foulden and its lands were conveyed to Sir John Wilkie, a rich burgess of Lanark, in which family it remained until they failed in the male line with James Bruce Wilkie of Foulden, a Captain in the King's Own Scottish Borderers Regiment, who died December 12, 1935. The local manor, Foulden House, rebuilt by the Wilkies circa 1800, had a main Georgian block of three and a half stories, flanked by peristyled and porticoed two-storey pavilion wings. It was a casualty of the post WWII country-house demolitions [3].
The Ramsay family consolidated their position in Foulden by providing family members as ministers there: Alexander Ramsay was Rector of Foulden in 1582/1590 [4] and another, Thomas (or Tobias) Ramsay, was Minister of Foulden in 1611 [5], and was still there in 1630 when he built the tower house at nearby Nether Mordington [6].
The parish church and its churchyard date from the 13th century and the present church was rebuilt in 1789. The 18th century Manse, which stands at the entrance to the churchyard, was rebuilt in 1841. The ancient Tithe Barn adjoining the churchyard, one of only two remaining in Scotland, where once The Church's 10% was deposited, is now in the care of and protected by Historic Scotland [7].
The parish is today conjoined with that of Mordington & Lamberton.
The parish is within the regional authority of the Scottish Borders Council. Now conjoined with its eastern neighbouring parishes, there is a local Foulden Mordington & Lamberton Community Council (similar to an English parish council) which meets monthly.
- ^ Strang, Borders and Berwick
- ^ Historic Manuscripts Commission, Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, N.B., London, 1902: 184
- ^ Strang, Borders and Berwick
- ^ Historic Manuscripts Commission, Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, N.B., London, 1902: 189/230
- ^ Historic Manuscripts Commission, Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, N.B., London, 1902: 232
- ^ The Great Seal of Scotland, 13 September 1636, no.589
- ^ Strang, Borders and Berwick
- The Scottish Nation, by William Anderson, Edinburgh, 1870, vol.2, pps:321-2 (on Ramsay family & Foulden)
- Borders and Berwick, by Charles A Strang, Rutland Press, 1994. ISBN 1-873190-10-7
- Smallholding Memories, General editor John Williams, J.P., Berwick-upon-Tweed, 2000, (for Foulden parish).
- The Scottish Genealogist, Edinburgh, vol.LII, no,1, March 2005, p.48 (on Foulden Kirk). ISSN 0300-337X
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