Closeburn

Creehope-linn, in the parish of Closeburn, — yet his imagination had never exactly figured out the horrors of such a residence, and he was surprised how the strange and romantic scene which he now saw had remained concealed from him, while a curious investigator of such natural phenomena.

Old Mortality 2004

Closeburn, in Dumfries-shire, and probably a mason by profession — at least educated to the use of the chisel.

Old Mortality 2004

His wife had been, for a considerable time, a cook-maid to Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, who procured for her husband, from the Duke of Queensberry, an advantageous lease of the freestone quarry of Gatelowbrigg, in the parish of Morton.

Old Mortality 2004

Closeburn, to Colonel Fergusson, who transcribed the lines, and gave them to me with the assurance that they had never been printed.

Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

Give an incident at Lochgoin; Muirkirk; Closeburn.

Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

So on the occasion of a great conventicle at Mitchelslacks, in the parish of Closeburn, he permitted a great field meeting to disperse, drawing off his party in another direction, because the signal streaming from a staff told him that the man who had spared his life was amongst the company of worshippers.

The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

She has had the young man that neighboured her at Closeburn Manse to visit her; indeed is not at all so ill off for visitors as she led me to expect.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Closeburn is the place where the Kirkpatricks, the Empress Eugénie's family, used to live before they went to Spain.

The Heather-Moon 1889

Mrs. Buller was, by maiden name, Kirkpatrick, a scion of the Closeburn

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

York alluded to was afterwards James II.; and the descendants of Mr. Harkness are still most respectable inhabitants of the parish of Closeburn, which has been united to Dalgarnock:

Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852