Old Photographs Auchterarder Scotland

Old photograph of Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The long High Street of Auchterarder gave the town its popular name of The Lang Toun or Long Town. The Jacobite Earl of Mar's army torched the town in 1716, but it quickly rose to prominence again thanks mainly to the handloom weaving industry. Robert Nisbet was born on 7 January 1814 in Auchterarder, the son of Christopher Nisbet and his wife, Margaret Sime. He was educated at the local school then studied Divinity at St Andrews University in Fife, and Edinburgh University. He was licensed to preach in 1836 and began as assistant minister in Lanark. In 1842 he took on the highly prestigious role of minister of West St Giles in Edinburgh. In 1853 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews. In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Stevenson. In 1848 he married Eliza Tawse, died died 1883, daughter of John Tawse of Stobshiel, born 1787, died 1861, an advocate living in Edinburgh. Their children included Christopher Charles Nisbet and John Tawse Nisbet. Their daughter Christian Nisbet married James Paisley son of Reverend Robert Paisley of St Ninians in Leith. Robert died at his home, 56 Great King Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town on 22 November 1874. In 1983 the A9 was diverted to the south, bypassing Auchterarder and Aberuthven, to improve the connection between Stirling and Perth. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day



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