Havra is named after the island of South Havra just to the North West of Maywick.
Andrew Jamieson of South Havra came to Maywick and refurbished Havra some time in the 1880’s. I hope this Winter to spend some time delving into his and his family’s history and to discover how they lived and which house he was born in on South Havra. At the moment I have no good links to South Havra but there are a few snippets of information available via any search engine.
I’m also toying with the idea of keeping my boat in the corner of St Ninians Isle so that we can make the occasional trip to South Havra when the weather permits during the Summer months. It’s folk history and its links to Maywick are fascinating and I’m told that its horizontal windmill is of a design only found in Greece !
