Redding House,
Redding, Falkirk,
Scotland FK2 9TR |
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In 1859 land was purchased by the Coalmasters James Russell Senior and James Rusell Junior and was part of the Landsand Estate of Westquarter in the parish of Polmont, sometime possessed by Ebenezer Erskine as part of the lands of Overton in the ownership of Thomas Fenton Livingstone.
Thomas Fenton Livingstone, Esquire, of Westquarter, was the only son of John Thomas Fenton, Esquire, and Selina, younger daughter of the late Sir John Edensor Heathcote, Knt., of Longston Hall, Staffordshire. He was born in 1829; succeeded his grand-uncle, Admiral Sir Thomas Livingstone, Bart., of that ilk, in 1853, when he took the additional name of Livingstone; and in 1855, married Christian Margaret, only daughter and heiress of William Waddell, Esquire, D.L., of Moffat House, Lanark. Mr. Livingstone has, with other surviving issue, John Nigel Edensor, born in 1859.
From The History of Stirlingshire.
Chapter XXVII – Titled and Untitled Aristocracy.
Redding House was acquired and extensively restored by the company in 1992 one of the few houses of importance still in single ownership, in the Falkirk Area. |
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