The Brinian – Rousay Remembered

Tommy Gibson

Max Fletcher — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:12:50 +0000

October 10th 2023 The island’s legendary history man has just passed away in his sleep. ‘Rousay Remembered’ would be nothing without the inclusion of his photographs and memories. Rest in Peace dear friend.

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The Johnstons of Trumland Farm

Max Fletcher — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 11:48:53 +0000

by Margaret Green The Johnstons had farmed Crook, Rendall, for three generations – but soon after the First World War the farm was sold from under them. They had to find another tenancy and moved to Trumland – James Halcro Johnston, his wife Maggie, his two unmarried sisters Maggie and Clara (who lived at the Old Mill) and three teenage children, Bobby, James William, and Violet.

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Lizzie Burroughs Murrison – Pioneer Motorist

Max Fletcher — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:44:45 +0000

Lizzie Burroughs Murrison was born in a room above the coach house and stables in the grounds of Trumland House early on the morning of January 5th 1884. Her parents were Robert Mitchell Murrison and Margaret McDonald, who married in Rousay on October 29th 1879. At the time of the 1881 census Robert was employed by the laird, General Frederick William Traill Burroughs, as a gamekeeper on his…

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Cubbieroo & Bellona – and more

Max Fletcher — Sat, 09 May 2020 11:09:27 +0000

Cubbieroo is a cottage at the roadside in the Brinian and named from a nearby mound, traditionally known as ‘Cubbie Roo’s Burden.’ Cubbie Roo is the modern form of the name of a famous Saga chieftain, Kolbein Hrúga, who had his seat in Wyre. A cubbie was the name given to a large, round, straw basket carried on the back by a shoulder strap. Rousay tradition has it that Cubbie Roo once…

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Pier Folk & Views

Max Fletcher — Sat, 09 May 2020 09:58:44 +0000

Captain Ted Fresson and his Highland Airways Gypsy Moth G-AAWO on the Point Field at Trumland Farm, just along from the pier, – flights offered at five shillings a time. Highland Airways was set up by Captain Fresson in 1933, and the Rousay airfield was in operation between August 1934 and 1946. Margaret Green writes: The year is 1937, that’s me aged 2 in the arms of my father…

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Trumland Pier

Max Fletcher — Fri, 08 May 2020 15:10:42 +0000

The Brinian – including Pier Cottage, Rose Cottage and their Shops, the Blacksmith and Joiner’s Shops, Ivy Cottage, Viera View, Daisy Cottage, Cott, Kirkha’, and the U.P. Manse. The Brinian is a small district between the Kirk Brae [known today as the ‘Doctor’s Brae’] in the East and the Burn of Trumland to the West. Though now cultivated for the most part it was not skatted…

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War Memorial Unveiling

Max Fletcher — Fri, 08 May 2020 09:20:54 +0000

UNVEILING OF ROUSAY WAR MEMORIAL Sunday July 3rd 1921 [From the columns of The Orkney Herald, Wednesday July 6th 1921] On Sunday last, a very large gathering of people convened at the Parish Church of Rousay for the unveiling of the war memorial. The War Committee, knowing that the young men whose names are on the memorial scroll had grown up around Mr [Alexander Irvine]…

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Greenfield

Max Fletcher — Thu, 07 May 2020 15:35:12 +0000

Frederick Traill Inkster was the son of Hugh Inkster, Ervadale, and his first wife Isabella Kirkness, Quoyostray. He was born on September 7th 1868 in Unst, Shetland, where his father Hugh had moved to farm 40 acres of land at Greenfield, Haroldswick. Isabella died in childbirth in August 1882. Hugh returned to Rousay and married Isabella’s first cousin, Mary Kirkness of Grain.

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Trumland House

Max Fletcher — Thu, 07 May 2020 14:01:56 +0000

Frederick William Burroughs was sixteen years of age when he inherited the estate of Rousay and Viera on the death of his great-uncle, George William Traill, in 1847. It was at that time he assumed the name Traill, hence Frederick William Traill-Burroughs. He was the eldest son of Major-General Frederick William Burroughs, of the Bengal Army, and grandson of Sir William Burroughs…

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Trumland Farm

Max Fletcher — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:03:24 +0000

Trumland Farm is first mentioned in old parish records as being occupied by ‘John of Trimland’ in 1503. In the 1595 Rental Trumland was skatted as a 2d. land, lying on either side of the Burn of Trumland, which flows down from the Hass of Trumland, on the southern slopes of the hills of Blotchniefiold and Knitchin. Later tenants were named as Magnus Trumbland, between 1653 and 1655…

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