WEST RINMORE
WEST RINMORE is on the east side of the Kindie Burn and is now a complete ruin. One can still make out the house behind the steading and chaumer, but it is roofless and most of the walls have tumbled into the landscape. There is a small eyeless window situated just beneath the one remaining chimney. It is a sad sight to witness. The steading and chaumer in front fare slightly better, much more of the walls remain and there is a portion of corrugated roof clinging on tightly. It is believed that the last family to inhabit this dwelling were the Blacks and they probably moved out sometime around WWI. West Rinmore is gradually returning to the landscape.
It was a home of the Reids through the generations, the eldest son usually farming at East Rinmore, therefore a younger son or brother farming here. Gordon Reid (my great-grandfather) brought his bride Jane Gauld Grant here after their wedding in 1870. It was here that Jane produced 9 children over the next 17 years, dying three days after the birth of her last daughter Georgina on 3rd January 1888. And is was here also that Mary Jane, their eldest daughter lost her battle for life four years later on June 25th 1894, dying of acute rheumatic endocarditis aged only 20.They are buried together, mother and daughter, in the old Kirk of Glenbuchat.
In 1895 after the tragic early death of Mary Jane, Gordon moved his family to Shannoch on the Breda Estate some miles to the east in the Howe of Alford. The Reid family continued farming here for a further two more generations until the 1970s.
West Rinmore 2006