By Kay McMeekin
Sir Charles Stuart-Menteth (1769-1847), of Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, purchased the Mansfield Estate, and lived at Mansfield House. This elegant Victorian mansion was situated midway bewteen between the town of New Cumnock and Corsencon Hill on the Mansfield Road. Sir Charles could oversee his many mineral developments within this parish including coal reserves at Grieve Hill, less than 2 miles to the North, close to the Parish boundary of Old Cumnock.
Sir Charles Granville Stuart Menteth became the 1st Baronet of Closeburn and Mansfield in 1838. He worked the coal, lime and clay reserves on his Mansfield estate and was recognised as a major land improver in the county. He passed away in December 1847, aged 78 years. (R Guthrie https://newcumnockhistory.com/key-historical-events/robert-burns/robert-burns-trail/mansfield-and-sir-james-stuart-menteth/)
Robert Trotter 1818 - 1891 of Closeburn moved to Grieve Hill, Mansfield by the 1841 census.
Further down the line:-
His daughter Mary Trotter who was married to Angus Bennet, emigrated to Manitoba in 1882. They sailed on the Grecian from Glasgow to Quebec arriving 22 May 1882. They travelled with his parents Samuel Bennet and Elizabeth McCormick and their first 4 children. They were joiners in Scotland but became farmers in Russell, NW of Winnipeg and 2,800 km from Quebec.
Their son Robert Trotter Bennet married his cousin from Scotland, Mary Trotter, in 1905. She had emigrated about 1903. In 1911 they were in Marchwell Saskatchewan by 1916 they were farming in Saltcoats, Saskatchewan. All these places are nearby.
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