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Updated: May 29, 2025
Fingland is in the parish of Dalry, in the adjacent shire of Kirkcudbright, and Douglas was a somewhat near neighbor of Annie. The present proprietor of Maxwelton House is Sir Emilius Laurie, formerly rector of St. John's, Paddington, when he was known as Sir Emilius Bayley. He took the name of Laurie when he succeeded to the family estates.
"JOHN HOAT, Witness." If our dates are correct, this will was written the year after her marriage. And it is pleasant to see that she had such entire trust in Alexander Ferguson. Evidently she cherished no lingering regrets for Douglas of Fingland. In following up the "fairy" footsteps of Annie Laurie I came upon others wholly different, but of equal interest those of Robert Burns.
Sir Emilius is a descendant of Sir Walter, third baronet and brother of Annie. Sir Emilius placed in my hands a letter of which he said I might make what use I liked, and this letter contained the missing link. While the song has been generally credited to Douglas of Fingland, it has always been a matter of tradition rather than of ascertained fact. But to the important letter.
His coat is brown, and his waistcoat blue, embroidered with gold, and he wears abundant lace in the charming old fashion. It was at Maxwelton House, Annie's birthplace, that I came across the missing link in the chain of evidence that fixes the authorship of the song upon Douglas of Fingland.
The next day Mr. and Mrs. B. called upon her, and in the meantime she had had the original first stanza written out, dictating it to a grandniece. She had signed it with her own shaky hand. Not being satisfied with the signature, she had signed it a second time. She explained that her grandfather, Douglas of Fingland, was desperately in love with Annie Laurie when he wrote the song.
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