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Iain Laird's Family History Project

Aberdeenshire Castles

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Beneath the current exterior is a Z Plan Castle built 1604 developed from a 14th Century Tower
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Cluny Castle in the 1960s
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John Laing c 1870 believed to be a relative, wrote pipe tune "Craigievar Castle"
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A copy of John Laing's Pipe Tune is on display at the Castle
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Drum
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Castle Fraser
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Harthill
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Harthill bought in 1975 and restored by American writer, Ann Tweedy and Oilman Steve Remp. Ann then married Lawyer, Michael "Duke" Savage, and very sadly died in a fall in 2005.
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Harthill from Craigshannoch, Bennachie. It was here in the 17th Century that our distant relative John Leith of Harthill witnessed the Castle burn after he set fire to it to avoid it falling into the hands of enemies
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Harthill from Oyne Fork
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Harthill before the restoration
Huntly
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Leith Hall
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Pitfichie
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Tolquhon
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