| Description |
Humphry Thomson was living at Bushford in the mid-18th century. In 1814 Henry Thomson is described as resident at Bushford by Ambrose Leet. 'Robert Thompson' was the occupier holding the property in fee from the 1830s at least. The buildings had a rateable valuation of £5 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. [His son] Colonel Robert Thomson was resident in a new building on the other side of the road in the early 20th century. The new house (H657179) had a rateable valuation of £60 in 1906. His widow, Elizabeth Catherine, and her two daughters lived there in 1911. There were two substantial houses in Clossagh Beg by this time, one inhabited at the time of the censuses, by John Forster and later Joseph Ferris Forster and the other by the Thomsons. Walford's (1918) records Robert George Thomson, only son of Major Frith Thomson and nephew of Lieut. Col. Robert Thomson, died 1911, of Bushford. |
