something.  They put the dead fish on my line.  When I returned from the errand they called out excitedly that I had a fish on my line.  I saw at a glance that it was dead, half dried out from being out of the water.  They told me to take it to Mother, which I did.  They kept me running back and forth and the rascals would put the same old fish on my line.  I just grinned to myself and let them think I didn’t know!  Mother finally intervened.  She wouldn’t let them tease her baby boy.

Big Island lay half a mile away, opposite Ivanhoe.  We went there for blueberries too.  Walter swam over to it.  Nobody lived on it.  Beyond Big Island, about two miles from Ivanhoe, was a cool spring at Sandy Bay.  We got drinking water there and also at a farm in another direction, a mile away.

John Rodney with large Grey Trout taken in 1934.

Miscellaneous Turnbulls submitted by Michael Robson

Manuscript originals of the following are held at  10 Callicvol, Port of Ness, Isle of Lewis HS2 0XA.

James Turnbull was paid 2s.5d for ‘sharpening Picks’ as part of the work involved in constructing a boundary dyke in the area of Hassendean, central Roxburghshire – July 1774

James Turnbull, occupant (tenant?) of the ‘East end farm of Hassendean’, parish of Minto, one of the holdings to be combined as one farm and leased from Whitsunday 1782

William Turnbull paid £1.2s.6d ‘for leading wood’ to help in the repairs of fences and ‘banking the water’ of the river Teviot, at Hawick, Roxburghshire, in 1785

George Turnbull purchased timber for building 2 dwelling houses on the farm of Eastfield of Lempitlaw, east Roxburghshire in 1785 and 1786

Andrew Turnbull provided with 600 thorn plants (hawthorn) for his farm (unlocated precisely but at Hawick) presumably for making a hedge – 1 February 1789

William Turnbull of Burnfoot (near Hawick, Roxburghshire) and Robert Dickson of Huntlaw were arbiters judging the value of a boundary dyke which they considered worth 3s.8d per rood (six yards) – 20th May 1789

Robert Turnbull spent 4½ days at 1s per day planting willows (‘saughs’) on Whitchesters Bank near Hawick, Roxburghshire and was paid on 12 April 1790

John Turnbull conveyed a letter and returned with twenty guineas on behalf of Adam Ogilvie at Branxholm – 26 October 1790

Thomas Turnbull confirmed measurement of a length of fence near Burnfoot, Hawick, on 31st December 1790

Robert Turnbull was one of up to 6 men who planted trees at Whitchesters and neighbourhood, Hawick, December 1790 – February 1791

John Turnbull received payment of the money he had given the previous year to George Mathewson for dyking work on 2nd February 1792

Robert Turnbull was one of two men employed in cutting the foundation of a stone dyke in upper Teviotdale ‘the Time of Harvest’ – 28th September 1792

William Turnbull and one other were paid £3 for quarrying, leading and building a length of stone dyke for enclosing part of the farm of Hassendean. He also made lengths of ditch. 1790 – 1792. Accounts accepted 23rd January 1793

Robert Turnbull was one of five labourers paid for quarrying stones with which to build a stone dyke
as a boundary division in upper Liddesdale,