Orangefield House, South Ayrshire

[5] James's life changing moment was a severe punishment following being caught stealing apples from a local orchard; he decided to emigrate and stowed away aboard a ship and was left Ayrshire for forty years.

With great generosity he purchased the small estate of Drumdow, near Stair, for his old friend and brother in law, and ensured that his nephew and nieces had the best education available.

[7] The Macrae Monument, mausoleum, memorial or Orangefield Family Burial Ground was built around 1750 by John Swan and is of the Corinthian style, with alcove, urns and obelisk.

Smith records the story that a few years after his death, some of Macrae's friends assembled at Orangefield and decided to remove his bones from the Monkton churchyard and to place them in the mausoleum.

After two days and nights of constant drinking they selected the largest skull and longest shank bones they could find out of reverence for the Governor and took them to the mausoleum.

A comprehensive programme of consolidation and repair, including rebuilding of the upper part of the obelisk, was undertaken with grant assistance from Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2000–2001.

The small chamber in the centre of the monument was found to contain coffins of a likely 18th century style and the skeletons of two men, two women and two children of unknown identity.