From A 1 mile East of Kirkcaldy turn south onto unclassified road to Coaltown of Wemyss, after 1 mile at T junction turn left into Village, after c yards opposite Bowling Green turn right into Castle Driveway, half mile down drive take left hand fork and follow signs to Garden. There is a small area by the entrance to the walled garden for disabled parking — if making arrangements to visit please notify us should you require to make use of this facility.
Walled Garden. Woodland Garden. It would appear that it is from this Bogie line that Elizabeth Wemyss is descended. From here the genealogy of the Wemyss family is fairly well documented but there are significant gaps. It was not until that the crowns were actually united and the Scottish parliament dissolved. Bogie is an area to the north-west of Kirkcaldy and about 10 Km west of Wemyss castle.
She was the daughter of James Tod, tenant in Gilston. At the time of this marriage James Wemyss and his father-in-law to be, James Tod, signed a contract of marriage but neglected to get the bride to sign it. So when James Wemyss died in about a dispute arose over who was entitled to inherit his property leading to a series of petitions and legal determinations which are all on record and give some interesting insights into Scottish property law.
During the period of his marriage James progressed from Tenant in Bogie to Tacksman of Cassingray primary leaseholder and to freehold owner of property at Wester Lathallan. The dispute eventually went to the court of Lords of Council and Session who found the contract to be binding and confirmed that the Wester Lathallan property belonged to David Wemyss and the Cassingray tack to the 9 younger children with some provision for the widow from the remainder of the estate.
The larger Lathallan estate had been owned by the Spens family for some centuries but in it was sold for financial reasons — it seems likely that Wester Lathallan was part of the same estate and sold off somewhat earlier to James Wemyss in about The Wester Lathallan property photos here taken in now has a number of solid stone farm buildings and an equally solid stone house but in a different style.
It seems likely the farm buildings date from shortly after David Wemyss took ownership in with the house being built somewhat later after his marriage in about and before the family moved from Cassingray to live there in David was in his mid thirties and still unmarried when his father died. The area around Wester Lathallan is good farming country. The next door Gilston Estate currently grows wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape as well as running cattle and sheep.
David Wemyss married sometime before his first child, Elizabeth, was born in and baptised at Carnbee on May 12 of that year. HIs spouse was Agnes Collier but we have no information on her background or age.
He was in his mid 30s. Agnes died between and but there is no apparent record of her burial. Shortly after that David Wemyss remarried to Catherine Tod but there is no available record of the marriage.
However there are records of the birth of 4 children, the first, Catherine in while still living at Wester Lathallan, and the remaining 3, Margaret, James and Robert, at St Andrews. David Wemyss died at St Andrews on January 17, aged 67 and is buried in the grounds of the ruined cathedral. He left assets of 3, pounds. HIs freehold property was left to his eldest surviving son Robert with a life interest to his widow and the movable assets non-real estate divided equally between his 7 children.
This photo of St Andrews shows the remains of St Andrews Cathedral and burial ground in the foreground. Once the largest and most important church in Scotland, St Andrew's Cathedral now lies in picturesque ruins overlooking the North Sea in St Andrews. The Christian faith is said to have arrived in St Andrews in the 6th century with a Celtic monastic community founded by St.
In the 8th century, the king of the Picts founded a church dedicated to St. Andrew on this windswept coastal site. Andrew, a fisherman and brother of St. Peter, was adopted as the patron saint of the Picts and later of Scotland; the saltire X-shaped cross that adorns the modern Scottish flag is his symbol. After relics of St. Shrubs and trees are underplanted with clematis; they scramble through evergreen shrubs and, despite the dry conditions, spring out of dense leylandii and beech hedges.
The double, Primrose Star, a particular favourite, is cleverly hosted by a cotoneaster at the side of the potting shed. They do, however, need to be planted deep. A river of red-flowering valerian shades the roots of the plants. In late spring and early summer clematis are the undoubted stars but there is much else to be seen at Wemyss.
The scene is set on arrival by the magnificent classical vistas and views of the sea framed by beech hedges. The woodlands to the rear of the castle are packed with a succession of bulbs: in late May, bluebell-lined paths are punctuated with the last of the Narcissus poeticus and the marbled leaves of the lilac Erythronium revolutum.
Just outside the six-acre walled garden sits a bed of purple, blue and yellow iris combined with wildflowers such as primroses, cowslips and ox-eye daisies. These galvanised arches support an abundance of roses and clematis.
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