Tour Scotland Photograph Video Hannah Ann Stirling Memorial Lecropt Kirk By Bridge of Allan Stirlingshire



Tour Scotland video of the Hannah Ann Stirling memorial on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. She was the eldest daughter of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, of Keir and Pollok who was a Scottish historical writer and art historian, politician and virtuoso. Her mother was Elizabeth Maxwell. Hannah was born at Kenmure on the 17th of August, 1816. She died at Carlsbad, Bohemia, on the 18th of July, 1843 and was buried under this church.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Lady Melville Memorial Lecropt Kirk By Bridge of Allan Stirlingshire



Tour Scotland video of the Lady Anna Marie Leslie Melville memorial on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. She was the second daughter of David Leslie Melville, 8th Earl of Leven and Elizabeth Anne Campbell. She was born at Melville on 31st of December, 1826. She married, in Paris, France, on the 26th of April, 1865, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, of Keir and Pollok who was a Scottish historical writer and art historian, politician and virtuoso. She died at Keir on the 8th of December, 1874, and is buried under the church.

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Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Foster Memorial Window Lecropt Kirk Bridge Of Allan



Tour Scotland travel video of the Foster memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. This window is in memory of Arthur Foster, a former Elder of the church, and his family.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Stewart Memorial Window Lecropt Kirk Bridge Of Allan



Tour Scotland video of the Stewart memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. This window is in memory of Doctor William Stewart and his wife Wilma. William was a distinguished scholar and Missionary.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Henderson Memorial Window Lecropt Kirk Bridge Of Allan



Tour Scotland video of the Henderson memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. This window is in memory of the five children of the Reverend Peter David R and Mrs E L Henderson.

Henderson is a common Scottish surname. The name is derived from patronymic form of the name Hendry, which is a Scottish form of Henry. Some Hendersons also derive their name from Henryson. The surname Henderson is borne by numerous unrelated families in Scotland. For example, the Hendersons of Fordell, in Fife, were the chief Lowland family of the name. This family descended from a family of Henrysons, from Dumfriesshire. A branch of Clan Gunn also bears the name. According to tradition, this family descends from Henry Gunn, a younger son of a chief of the Gunns who lived in the 15th century. The Hendersons of Glencoe in the Highlands derive their surname from the Gaelic MacEanruig. The surname was unknown in England prior to the 17th century and is first mentioned in a marriage document between one of the Borders Hendersons and the daughter of a Carlisle merchant at Hexham. The surname is rendered in Scottish Gaelic as: MacEanraig or MacEanruig, masculine, and NicEanraig or NicEanruig, feminine.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Young Memorial Window Lecropt Kirk Bridge Of Allan



Tour Scotland video of the Young memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. This window is in memory of Reverend Peter Young a Minister here from 1843 to 1893, and also in memory of his two sisters.

Tour Scotland photograph of the Young memorial glass window on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of the Young memorial glass window on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Chancel Window Lecropt Kirk Bridge Of Allan



Tour Scotland video of the stained glass window in the Chancel on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. This window was gifted by Lawrence Pullar in 1911.

Tour Scotland photograph of the stained glass window in the Chancel on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of the stained glass window in the Chancel on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of the stained glass window in the Chancel on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of the stained glass window in the Chancel on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Exterior Lecropt Kirk Bridge Of Allan Stirlingshire



Tour Scotland video of the exterior of Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. This is a Scottish church in Gothic revival style, built in 1825 to the designs of David Hamilton and William Stirling local architects. It is a parish church of the Church of Scotland. There has been a church at Lecropt prior to 1827, the old kirk was built in 1400 in what is now the Keir estate although nothing remains of the Kirk. It is known that there was a church at Lecropt prior to 1260.

Tour Scotland photograph of the exterior of Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Auld Kirk Tayport Fife



Tour Scotland video of the interior of the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Wonderful renovation work being carried out inside this old church by the Auld Kirk Charitable Trust. At Ferry-Port-On-Craig a church was erected on this site in 1607, and then rebuilt in 1794, with extensive additions in 1825.

Tour Scotland photograph of the interior of the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of the war memorial in the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of stained glass in the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of stained glass in the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Kirkmadryne Church Scotland

Old photograph of Kirkmadryne Church, Rhins of Galloway , Wigtownshire, Scotland. This Scottish parish church was in the old parish of Toskerton now generally called Kirmadrine, which was united to Stoneykirk in 1618. The old church was dedicated to St Medran of Muskerry and belonged to Whithorn Priory. The church there is now a memorial to the MacTaggarts of Ardwell. The 19th Century, Romanesque style burial chapel stands on the site of what is thought to be, one of the earliest Christian communities in Scotland. It was built for Lady MacTaggart Stewart of Ardwell and during its construction, older stones which date back to the 5th Century AD were discovered. The first tablet in the Chapel is n memory of Edward Orde MacTaggart Stewart of Ardwell, 2nd Baronet of Southwich and his wife Margaret. Elder daughter of the 3rd Baron and Baroness of Donington. The second tablet in the Chapel is dedicated to the Right Honorable Archibald Patrick Thomas, 17th Baron of Borthwick. The third tablet in the Chapel is dedicated to Lady Marianne Susanna MacTaggart Stewart of Ardwell.



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Old Photographs Torrance Scotland

Old photograph of Torrance, Scotland. A Scottish town in East Dunbartonshire eight miles North of Glasgow city centre. Although weavers were among the earliest residents of the village, limestone, coal and ironstone extraction also began to emerge as a local industry.





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Old Photograph Kingston Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Kingston a small coastal village in Moray, Scotland. Kingston's past includes a large shipbuilding industry started in the 18th century. This used an enormous amount of timber from the local surrounding forests. In 1829, some of the village homes were lost in the great flood, the Muckle Spate which was a great flood in August 1829, which devastated much of Strathspey, in the north east of Scotland.



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Old Photographs Dalginross Scotland

Old photograph of Dalginross, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village, an extension of Comrie, is located to the South of the River Earn. Highland Crofters who had been cleared from their land came to work here in the textile industry in the late 18th century.



Old photograph of Dalginross, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Eriskay Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages on Isle of Eriskay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although only a small Scottish island, Eriskay has many claims to fame that have made the island well-known far beyond the Hebrides. It is associated with the traditional Hebridean song, the Eriskay Love Lilt; with the Eriskay pony and the Eriskay jersey, made without any seams. It is the real Whisky Galore island: it was just off Eriskay that the SS Politician ran aground in 1941 with its famous cargo. On August 2, 1745 the small frigate le Du Teillay landed Bonnie Prince Charlie with his " seven men of Moidart " on Eriskay to start the Forty Five Jacobite Rising. An important early documentary film, Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives, made by a German traveller, Werner Kissling, was set on the island.



Old photograph of Isle of Eriskay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

Old photograph of Isle of Eriskay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Lethnot Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and bridges in Lethnot located five miles from Edzell, Angus, Scotland. Two hundred years ago this was to be the shortest direct route to the south coming from Banffshire and Aberdeenshire, crossing the hills to Invermark, over again on to the road leading to Lethnot. In the same period this road had two names. The first was Priests Road because the Episcopalian minister of Lochlee and Lethnot travelled on it from the manse in upper Glenesk. The other name was the Whisky Road, the joy of bootleggers and the bane of the exciseman. There were dozens of stills on the hill burns, and several could be seen in the Lethnot area until just a few years ago. The making of illegal whisky slowly died away as the authorities became to clever in catching the bootleggers and by 1790 the majority of stills were ceased, with only a few left till around 1830.





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Old Photograph Buttery Bank Scotland

Old photograph of cottages at Buttery Bank by Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. In the early 19th century there was a Tollhouse here.



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Old Photograph Ardfarnal Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages at Ardfarnal on the Isle of Jura, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Old Testament Warriors Window Parish Church Kilconquhar East Neuk Of Fife



Tour Scotland video of the Old Testament Warriors stained glass window in the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kilconquhar, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. In the south wall of the chancel is this six light window with four panels depicting Old Testament Warriors. To the Glory of God and in Celebration of the Ministerial Jubilee of the Reverend Alexander Legge, VD, 24th September, 1916. This window is gifted by Parishioners and friends. He was born in Banffshire on the 25th of July 1842, educated at Banff Academy and Edinburgh University. Ordained to Congregational Church, Peterhead, 1868. Translated to Congregational Church; Lancaster Road, Preston, 1874. Admitted as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland, 1878. Ordained to St. Andrew's Parish, Dundee, 1878. Minister of Kilconquhar, 1886; translated and admitted, 1886. He died on the 20th of March 1920 in Colinsburgh, Fife.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Acts of Charity Window Parish Church Kilconquhar East Neuk Of Fife



Tour Scotland video of the Acts of Charity stained glass window in the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kilconquhar, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. At the east end of the kirk, above the chancel, is this beautiful eight light stained glass window displaying The Acts of Charity.

Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Interior Parish Church Kilconquhar East Neuk Of Fife




Tour Scotland video of the interior of the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kilconquhar, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The raised chancel area to the east of this Kirk has a communion table, two benches. an octagonal font, a lectern, and an elaborately carved pulpit. Women accused of being witches used to be thrown in Kilconquhar Loch, and if not drowned, this was seen as proof that they were witches and then they were burned at the stake! The spot where the church stands is thought to have been a Druidical place of worship and a burial ground long before the time of Christianity.

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Old Photographs Dinnet Scotland

Old photograph of Dinnet, Royal Deeside, Scotland. This Scottish village is in the Marr area of Aberdeenshire. Approximately equidistant from Deeside towns Aboyne and Ballater and situated on the main A93 road in the valley of the River Dee.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church Tayport Fife



Tour Scotland video of the interior of St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church was designed by architect T Martin Cappon from Dundee. Thomas Martin Cappon was born in Monifieth on 4 April 1863, the son of James Cappon, a Dundee shipmaster and whose grandfather, also James, had served under Lord Nelson, and his wife Janet Martin Educated at Newport Public School and Dundee High School, he showed an aptitude for drawing and was apprenticed in 1880 to Charles and Leslie Ower, studying in parallel under Sir Alfred Ewing at University College, Dundee, where he gained first place for surveying and levelling in 1885. Cappon thereafter had the offer of a good appointment in America but preferred to set up practice on his own account in Dundee at the end of his apprenticeship. His early domestic work of the late 1880s and early 1890s shows the influence of John Murray Robertson as well as that of the Owers, notably at his St Andrews houses.

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Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Parish Church Crail East Neuk Of Fife



Tour Scotland video of the interior of the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. There has been a church at this location since at least the twelfth century. The earliest known parish church on this site was a two celled Norman building. It was consecrated in 1243 to Saint Maelrubha and after a successful petition by the Prioress of Haddington, became Collegiate in 1517, by which time it was known as St. Mary's. Between its foundation and 1815 there were many modifications and additions. In 1815 Robert Balfour undertook the first major renovation and a second was carried out by Judith Campbell in 1963.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Pictish Cross Slab Parish Church Crail East Neuk Of Fife



Tour Scotland video of a Pictish Class III Cross Slab stone in the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The stone was retrieved in 1815, having been used as a paving stone in the floor for more than fifty years. A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. A few have ogham inscriptions. Located in Scotland, mostly north of the Clyde Forth line and on the Eastern side of the country, these stones are the most visible remaining evidence of the Picts and are thought to date from the 6th to 9th century, a period during which the Picts became Christianized. The earlier stones have no parallels from the rest of the British Isles.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video St Michael's Episcopal Church Earlsferry East Neuk Of Fife



Tour Scotland video of the interior of St Michael's Episcopal Church on ancestry visit to Elie and Earlsferry, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. One of the few remaining iron churches in Scotland.


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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Saint Andrew Window St James's Episcopal Church Dollar



Tour Scotland video of the Saint Andrew stained glass window on ancestry visit to St James's Episcopal Church in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. About the middle of the 10th century, Andrew the Apostle became the patron saint of Scotland. Several legends state that the relics of Andrew were brought by divine guidance from Constantinople to the place where the modern town of St Andrews stands today

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Armitage Window St James's Episcopal Church Dollar



Tour Scotland video of the Julie M. Armitage memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to St James's Episcopal Church in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. This window was given by her sisters, Clarice, Fanny and Nora.

Recorded in a number of spellings including Armitage, Armytage, Armatidge, Hermitage and others, this is an Anglo French surname. It derives from the Old French word " hermite ", from the Greek " eremos ", meaning solitary, and was originally given either as a topographical name to someone who lived by a hermitage, or a place of learning, or as a locational name from any of the places named with the above word. These places include Hermitage in Durham, Northumberland, Dorset, Berkshire and Sussex, and Armitage in Staffordshire. Early examples of the surname include: Hugh del Hermytage in Warwickshire; Willelmus del Ermytache in Yorkshire; and John de Armitage in Sheffield. In April 1596, William Armitage, was rector of Billingford, Norfolk, England.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Raeburn Window St James's Episcopal Church Dollar



Tour Scotland video of the Raeburn memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to St James's Episcopal Church in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Sir William Hannay Raeburn, 1st Baronet, born 11th August 1850, died 12th of February 1934, was a Scottish shipping businessman and Unionist Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament between 1918 and 1923. He married Sarah Manifold, the daughter of John Thorburrow Manifold, on 28th September 1876. She died on 18 January 1882.

The Raeburn surname first appears in records in the early 14th Century, while Andrew de Raburn, burgess of Glasgow, and John of Raburn, a witness there, appear in Glasgow records in 1430 and 1454, respectively. Thomas Raburn was vicar in the choir of Glasgow in 1468, according to Glasgow Episcopal Registers.

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Old Photographs Greenlaw Scotland

Old photograph of Greenlaw, Berwickshire, Scotland. Greenlaw was first made the county town of Berwickshire in 1596, and was the first town to take on the role since the English took Berwick in 1482. At that time, Greenlaw was situated about a mile south of the present village, atop a hill, the Green Law. This area is now known as Old Greenlaw.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Brown Window St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire



Tour Scotland video of the Brown memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to to St Mungo's Parish Church on ancestry visit to Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. This window, the Gethsemane window, is dedicated to the wife of James Brown.

Brown is an English language surname in origin chiefly descriptive of a person with brown hair, complexion or clothing. It is one of the most common surnames in English speaking countries. It is the second most common surname in Canada and Scotland, third most common in Australia and fourth most common in England and the United States. It is particularly clustered in southern Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Bryson Window St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire



Tour Scotland video of the Bryson memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to to St Mungo's Parish Church on ancestry visit to Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. This window, The Tie Deum window, is dedicated to Alexander Bryson, former minister of the church.

Notable people with the Bryson surname include;

Alexander Bryson, born, 12 October 1816, died 7 December 1866, was a Scottish biologist, geologist and horologist who served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts and as president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.

Rear Admiral Andrew Bryson, born 25 July 1822, died 7 February 1892, was an officer in the United States Navy. He fought in the American Civil War and served as commander of the South Atlantic Squadron.

George Bryson, born, December 13, 1813, died, January 13, 1900, who was a Scottish born businessman and political figure in Quebec. He was born in Paisley, by Glasgow, the son of James Bryson and Jane Cochrane, and came to Upper Canada with his parents in 1821. In 1835, he moved to the area near Fort-Coulonge in Lower Canada, where he entered the timber trade. In 1845, he married Robina Cobb. Bryson was mayor of Mansfield-et-Pontefract from 1855 to 1857 and from 1862 to 1867. He also served as justice of the peace, postmaster for Fort Coulonge and warden for Pontiac County. In 1857, he was elected to represent Pontiac in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Bruce Window St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire



Tour Scotland video of the Bruce memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to to St Mungo's Parish Church on ancestry visit to Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. This window, The Good Shepherd, window is dedicated to William Duncan Bruce and his wife.

The Bruce surname, so celebrated in the history of Scotland, is of Norman French origin, and is a locational name either from an extensive fortress, built by Adam de Brus at Brix between Cherbourg and Valognes, Normandy. Robert, The Bruce, born 1274, died 1329, was crowned king of Scotland in 1306, and consolidated Scottish independence when he defeated the English forces of King Edward 11 at Bannockburn in 1314. His brother, Edward, was crowned King of Ireland in 1315. The Bruce family hold the titles of barons of Kinloss, barons of Aberdare, earls of Elgin, and earls of Kincardine.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Brodie Window St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire




Tour Scotland video of the Brodie memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to to St Mungo's Parish Church on ancestry visit to Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. This window, Fisher of Men, was installed and dedicated to Peter Phillip Brodie, former minister of the church and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

The church is named after St. Mungo, also known as St. Kentigern, patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. It belongs to the Church of Scotland Presbytery of Stirling and serves the parish of Alloa. A chapel dedicated to St. Mungo is thought to have been erected during the fourteenth or fifteenth century, which became dependent upon the Parish of Tullibody. Alloa had grown into a parish in its own right by 1600 when the Act of Assembly united the two parishes. In 1680, the original chapel was rebuilt and enlarged. The current church replaces the old parish church from the seventeenth century which had been deemed much too small for the congregation for over seventy years and was declared ruinous and unsafe in August 1815. The condition of the old church was so bad that services were often being held in the open air rather than risking injury to the congregation.

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Old Photographs Tiree Scotland



Old photograph of cottages on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. This Scottish island is known for its vernacular architecture, including blackhouses and white house, many retaining their traditional thatched roofs, as well as its unique 'pudding' or spotted houses where only the mortar is painted white. Its name derives from Tìr Iodh, meaning land of the corn, from the days of the 6th century Celtic missionary and abbot St Columba. Tiree provided the monastic community on the island of Iona, south east of the island, with grain. In 1770, half of the island was held by fourteen farmers who had drained land for hay and pasture. Instead of exporting live cattle, which were often exhausted by the long journey to market and so fetched low prices, they began to export salt beef in barrels to get better prices. The rest of the island was let to 45 groups of tenants on co-operative joint farms: agricultural organisations probably dating from clan times. Field strips were allocated by annual ballot. Sowing and harvesting dates were decided communally. It is reported that in 1774, Tiresians were 'well clothed and well fed, having an abundance of corn and cattle.

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Old Photograph Craigo Scotland

Old photograph of Craigo located five miles North West of Montrose, Scotland. Craigo developed in the 19th century as a textile village.



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Old Photograph Orphir Scotland

Old photograph of Orphir round church on mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland. This is the remains of the only surviving circular church in Scotland. It was built in the first half of the 12th century and dedicated to St Nicholas. John Rae, born 30th September 1813, died 22nd July 1893, was a Scottish doctor who explored Northern Canada, surveyed parts of the Northwest Passage and reported the fate of the Franklin Expedition. He was born at the Hall of Clestrain in the parish of Orphir. After studying medicine at Edinburgh University he went to work for the Hudson's Bay Company as a doctor, accepting a post as surgeon at Moose Factory, Ontario, where he remained for ten years.



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