Didn’t sleep great last night – don’t think I’ve been active enough (sitting in cars all day) to tire myself out! Got up at 7:00 a.m. Breakfast of sausage, bacon and egg as usual. Dad having a hard time getting the gas oven lit, but at least the stove top was easy enough. This caravan is in a very pastoral setting, in a small field in the middle of a working sheep farm. Nearby, against a stone farm building is an old overshot mill, not a very big one.
Left caravan at 9:00 a.m. and took a drive down the Stockavullin road to see a view of the now ruined Poltalloch Estate. Saw a circle of standing stones. Then down to Bellanoch. Went along the Crinan Canal as well. Took a drive out to Tayvallich, going right through the village and then along the upper road (B8025) past our old home of Kilmory Ross and down to Keillmore where Fletchers once lived. On the way back up, we decided to stop at Kilmory Ross to take pictures of the house. The present resident, an Englishman by the name of Chris Puslow? Came out to see what we were doing. Once he heard that we had lived there (until our 1967 immigration), he insisted we come in. His Glasgow born partner, Sue Hillman, made tea and we were shown around the nicely modernized house. We sat and had a visit for 2 hours or more. It was just wonderful. We exchanged contact info.
After that, we returned to Tayvallich and had a really nice lunch in the Tayvallich Inn, which was a motor garage during the years we lived around there. Tayvallich had been a ‘dry’ town then. Bought some biscuits at the shop. Drove down to Achnamara to see Topsy (nee Campbell) and Joe Cockburn. Topsy had been Mum’s girlhood friend. They live at #20, the first of the brown forestry houses, on your right as you enter the village. Arrived after 2:30 p.m. Stayed a good long time, arriving back at caravan at 8:30 p.m. Dad got the oven going as well as the gas fireplace – they had both been giving him a lot of trouble! Rained all night, rained all day and still raining outside. Hoping it will be dry tomorrow.
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I am a descendant of Archibald and Mary (Kennedy) Fletcher who lived at Keillmore. I have been trying to find relatives of this family. If they are your ancestors too, then we must be connected. My link is through their son Patrick who went to New Zealand. I would love to make contact. I am about to make my own visit to Jura in August 2012.
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