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The Martyrs' Graves
HERE LYSE WILLIAM JOHNSTO. JOHN MILROY. GEORGE WALKER
WHO WAS WITHOUT SENTENCE OF LAW HANGED BY MAJOR WINRAM FOR THEIR ADHERANCE TO SCOTLAND’S REFORMATION COVENANTS NATIONAL AND SOLAM LEAGWE 1685
HERE LYES MARGARAT LACHLANE WHO WAS BY UNJUST LAW SENTENCED TO DEATH BY LAGG STRACHARE WINRAM AND GRAHAME Tied to a stake in the Solway Firth and was drowned by the sea 11 May 1685 and drowned
The grave stone also states. Here lyes Margaret Wilson daughter of Gilbert Wilson in Glenver Noch who was tied to a stake in the Solway Firth and was drowned by the sea anno 1685 aged 18
The role of ‘Major Windram’, aka. Captain ‘Major’ George Winram of His Majesty’s Regiment of Dragoons, narrows down the time frame for their execution. Winram was not commissioned in the Dragoons until early May, 1685, when the captaincy of John Inglis’s troop was handed to Winram after the debacle of the prisoner rescue at Newmilns. At around the time that Winram was commissioned, his troop was redeployed from Ayrshire to Galloway. On 11 May, 1685, Winram is alleged to have participated in the drowning of two women at Wigtown.
Winram’s role in the capture of the three men may indicate that they were executed at some point between c.10 May and July, 1685.
The Martyrs' Graves
HERE LYSE WILLIAM JOHNSTO. JOHN MILROY. GEORGE WALKER
WHO WAS WITHOUT SENTENCE OF LAW HANGED BY MAJOR WINRAM FOR THEIR ADHERANCE TO SCOTLAND’S REFORMATION COVENANTS NATIONAL AND SOLAM LEAGWE 1685
HERE LYES MARGARAT LACHLANE WHO WAS BY UNJUST LAW SENTENCED TO DEATH BY LAGG STRACHARE WINRAM AND GRAHAME Tied to a stake in the Solway Firth and was drowned by the sea 11 May 1685 and drowned
The grave stone also states. Here lyes Margaret Wilson daughter of Gilbert Wilson in Glenver Noch who was tied to a stake in the Solway Firth and was drowned by the sea anno 1685 aged 18
The role of ‘Major Windram’, aka. Captain ‘Major’ George Winram of His Majesty’s Regiment of Dragoons, narrows down the time frame for their execution. Winram was not commissioned in the Dragoons until early May, 1685, when the captaincy of John Inglis’s troop was handed to Winram after the debacle of the prisoner rescue at Newmilns. At around the time that Winram was commissioned, his troop was redeployed from Ayrshire to Galloway. On 11 May, 1685, Winram is alleged to have participated in the drowning of two women at Wigtown.
Winram’s role in the capture of the three men may indicate that they were executed at some point between c.10 May and July, 1685.