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1770
John Coutts, the
son of James and Janet (nee Cushnie) Coutts (COU00018), was born on 21 October 1770 at Cannyglearach, Drumoak (Scotland Births and Baptisms).
Drumoak (Scottish Gaelic: Druim M'Aodhaig, the ridge of St Aodhag)
is a village situated between Peterculter and Banchory in North Deeside,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Drumoak is proximate to the
River Dee, with Park Bridge, named for a the local Park Estate, being a local
crossing; Park Estate, was formerly owned by the railway engineer Sir Robert
Williams; Sir Robert is interred at Drumoak.
There
is a church, small shop, bowling green and the Irvine Arms restaurant (after
the family that owned 13 century Drum Castle).
Drum
Castle is run by the National Trust and is open to visitors. Relics and
portraits of the Irvine family are kept here, and it was conferred by Robert
the Bruce onto William de Irvine.
Drumoak was the birthplace of James
Gregory (astronomer and mathematician), discoverer of diffraction gratings a
year after Newton's prism experiments, and inventor of the Gregorian telescope
in 1663. The design is still used today in telescopes such as the Arecibo Radio
Telescope upgraded to a Gregorian design in 1997 giving Arecibo a flexibility
it had not previously possessed.
Nearby
prehistoric sites are recognised at Crathes, but near Drumoak
is the site of a Roman encampment Normandykes. Local
Roman troops were under the command of Lollius Urbicus, a lieutenant of the
Emperor Antoninus. Antonius died in 161 CE. Roman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes as they
sought higher ground evading the bogs of Red Moss and other low-lying mosses
associated with the Burn of Muchalls. That march used
the Elsick Mounth, one of
the ancient trackways crossing the Grampian Mountains, lying west of Netherley. To the north the Romans proceeded to the next
camp at Ythan Wells. The Roman Camps north of Perthshire have only been known
since 1793.
1793
Joan Coutts
married Jean Thom, the daughter of Robert Thom (born 1750) and Jannet (nee
Mackie) Thom (1736 to 1805) on 5 September 1793 (Scotland
Marriages).
1827
John Coutts died
on 23 May 1827 at Kincluny Farm, Durris, Kincardinshire.
Durris Churchyard