Old Photograph Thatched Cottages Newton Of Falkand Scotland

Old photograph of thatched cottages and children in Newton of Falkland near Freuchie, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Hilltown Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart, Tram, shops, buildings and people children in Hilltown, Dundee, Scotland. The Hilltown was a bustling place of work in the jute industry and provided accessible housing for many of the mill workers. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Farm Worker Horse Drawn Roller Carse Of Gowrie Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a farm worker with a horse drawn roller in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Carse of Gowrie is a stretch of low lying country in the southern part of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross. It stretches for about 20 miles along the north shore of the Firth of Tay between Perth and Dundee. The area offers high quality agricultural land and is well known as a major area for strawberry, raspberry and general fruit growing. Fruit is easy to cultivate in the area because of its southerly aspect and low rainfall. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Thatched Cottage Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a man standing outside a thatched cottage in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs High Street Lauder Scotland

Old photograph of shops, cottages, people and houses on the High Street in Lauder in the Scottish Borders 27 miles South East of Edinburgh, Scotland. Thomas Dickson was born in Lauder, Scotland on March 26, 1822. He died in Morristown, New Jersey, USA, on July 31, 1884. Dickson and his family immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1835. By 1838, Dickson's family moved to Carbondale, Pennsylvania, where Thomas enrolled in school. In 1860, Dickson began working for Delaware and Hudson Canal Company as the superintendent of coal. He quickly rose through the ranks and in 1869, Dickson became president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. He remained in the position until his death in 1884. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Rotten Row Lauder Scotland


Old photograph of thatched cottages, people and houses on Rotten Row street in Lauder in the Scottish Borders 27 miles South East of Edinburgh, Scotland. The town developed in a pattern which was typical of a Scottish Burgh. The Tolbooth, later known as the Town House overlooked the Market Place. Lauder is situated beside what was in Roman times a main route north from England, Dere Street. The route came from Trimontium, modern Newstead, near Melrose, following the valleys to pass over the Lammermuirs at their west end at Soutra, In the 12th Lauder was the site of a major castle built by the de Morville family. Later, the site was used as a fort by the English. Later, still, the same site became the site of Thirlestane Castle Before 1500 the town had been created a Burgh by Royal Charter, the rights being renewed by James IV in 1502, Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Winter Photograph Meigle Perthshire Scotland

Old Winter photograph of Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland. Nearby Belmont Castle, constructed from the 15th century, originally as a residence of the Bishops of Dunkeld, was the residence of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, born 1836, died 1908, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908. He is buried in the village churchyard.





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Old Photograph Drummuir And Botriphnie Church Scotland

Old photograph of Drummuir And Botriphnie Church in Moray, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in the 1820s to replace a previous medieval church, the remains of which are still present in the graveyard. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Ardminish Isle of Gigha Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Ardminish on the Isle of Gigha, a small island off the West coast of Kintyre, in Argyll, Scotland. This is the only village on Gigha in the Inner Hebrides, and is considered its capital. It is connected to the mainland through a regular ferry service that runs to Tayinloan, a village situated on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute.



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Old Photograph Latheronwheel Scotland


Old photograph of the harbour in Latheronwheel in Caithness, Scotland. This Scottish village was built on the land of one Captain Dunbar, who had actually wished for it to be called Janetston, after his wife. It was a planned settlement, begun in 1835 with the building of a hotel, then known as Dunbar’s Hotel, but today as The Blends, due to its proprietor in the 1890s penchant for blending whisky from stills of dubious legality. In the beginning, tenants of the settlement were allocated 2 acres of land and the right to fish from the harbour. The harbour was constructed around 1840, with a small lighthouse, soon disused, built on the southern headland. At one time was the home of 50 fishing boats although few now remain. Initially salmon was caught, but this gave way to herring.



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Old Photograph Farm Worker Bankfoot Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a farm worker with his family outside a cottage in Bankfoot, North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crossroads Lindores Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages by the crossroads to Cupar and Perth in Lindores village near Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The battle of Black Earnside at which William Wallace defeated Aymer de Valence, the 2nd Earl of Pembroke, was fought near the village.



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Old Photograph Ploughmen With Horses Near Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of ploughmen with horses near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph 18th Green Duff House Royal Golf Course Banff Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the 18th green on the Duff House Royal Golf Course by Banff, Scotland. The original course here was designed by James Braid who was born in Earlsferry, East Neuk of Fife. James, born 6 February 1870, died 27 November 1950, was a Scottish professional golfer and a member of the Great Triumvirate of the sport alongside Harry Vardon and John Henry Taylor. He won The Open Championship five times. He also was a renowned golf course architect. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Children At School In St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children at School in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Children At School In Perth Scotland

Old photograph of children at School in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Children At School In Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of children in School in Dundee, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fair Maid's House Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Fair Maid's House in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The 15th Century Fair Maid's House on North Port is the oldest secular building in Perth. Bought by the Glovers Association in 1693 for use as a meeting house, the house was largely reconstructed in 1893. This was used as the home of Catherine Glover in the poem, The Fair Maid Of Perth which was written by Sir Walter Scott. RSGS has now opened an exciting new Visitor and Information Centre in the Fair Maid's House.



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Old Photograph Pipers Of The Royal Scots Regiment Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Pipers Of The Royal Scots Regiment in Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Bay Of Nigg Scotland

Old photograph of Bay Of Nigg, Aberdeen, Scotland. Nigg Bay is situated somewhat to the East of the ancient Causey Mounth route which was constructed on high ground to make passable this medieval passage from coastal points south of Stonehaven to Aberdeen. This ancient passage connected the River Dee crossing, where the present Bridge of Dee is situated, via Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south. The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the battle of the Civil War in 1639.



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Old Photograph Public Park Grangemouth Scotland

Old photograph of people in the Public Park in Grangemouth, South of Stirling, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Hawes Inn South Queensferry Scotland

Old photograph of the Hawes Inn in South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland. The Hawes Inn, dating from the 17th century, almost under the Forth Bridge features in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.




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Old Photograph Church Picnic Aberdour Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children at a Church picnic in Aberdour, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph West Shore Street Pittenweem East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on West Shore Street in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Until 1975 Pittenweem was a royal burgh, having been awarded the status by King James V in 1541. Founded as a fishing village around a probably early Christian religious settlement, it grew along the shoreline from the west where the sheltered beaches were safe places for fishermen to draw their boats up out of the water. Later a breakwater was built, extending out from one of the rocky skerries that jut out south-west into the Firth of Forth like fingers. This allowed boats to rest at anchor rather than being beached, enabling larger vessels to use the port.



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Old Photograph River Oykel Scotland

Old photograph of the River Oykel in Sutherland, Scotland. This is a major river in the northern Highlands that is famous for its salmon fishing. It rises on Ben More Assynt, a few miles from Ullapool on the west coast of Scotland, and drains into the North Sea via the Kyle of Sutherland. Traditionally it has marked the boundary between Ross to the south and Sutherland to the north. The Oykel was known to the Vikings as the Ekkjal. It served as the boundary between the ancient Pictish province of Cat, Sutherland and Caithness, and the province of Ross. In 1406, the Mackays defeated the Clan MacLeod of Lewis at the Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach on the north bank near the mouth of the Tutim Burn.



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Old Photograph Trenchard Crescent Kinloss Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Trenchard Crescent in Kinloss located three miles from Findhorn, Moray, Scotland. Northeast of the village is Kinloss Barracks, formerly RAF Kinloss which opened on 1 April 1939. It is believed that 1,000 aircraft were dismantled at Kinloss, after the end of the Second World War.



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Old Photograph London Road Stranraer Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car and houses on London Road in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Around 1600, Stranraer had become the market town for western Wigtownshire. At about this time, Stranraer was reached by a military road built from Dumfries to allow easier access to Portpatrick for transportation of people to Ireland for the Plantation of Ulster. Stranraer became a royal burgh in 1617. The first harbour in Stranraer was built in the middle of the 18th century, with further port development in the 1820s. The arrival of the railway from Dumfries in 1861, which closed in 1965), which gave the shortest journey to/from London, England, established Stranraer as the area's main port. In 1862, the line was extended to serve the harbour directly, and a link to Portpatrick was also opened. In 1877, a rail connection north to Girvan and Glasgow was also established. Stranraer remained the main Scottish port for the Irish ferries for the next 150 years or so.



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Old Photograph Lumley Street Grangemouth Scotland

Old photograph of children, shops and buildings on Lumley Street in Grangemouth, South of Stirling, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Newsagent Shop Aberfoyle Scotland

Old photograph of cars, buses, buildings and Newsagent Shop in Aberfoyle, Trossachs, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Glebe Park East Wemyss Fife Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Glebe Park Street in East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland.





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Old Photographs Broad Street Kirkwall Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of cars, cyclists, shops, buildings and people on Broad Street in Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Kirkwall is the largest town and capital of the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The town is first mentioned in Orkneyinga saga in the year 1046 when it is recorded as the residence of Rögnvald Brusason the Earl of Orkney, who was killed by his uncle Thorfinn the Mighty. In 1486, King James III of Scotland elevated Kirkwall to the status of a royal burgh; modern roadsigns still indicate The City and Royal Burgh of Kirkwall. The name Kirkwall comes from the Norse name Kirkjuvagr, meaning Church Bay, which later changed to Kirkvoe, Kirkwaa and Kirkwall. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs Monkton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and cars in Monkton near Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland. The village borders upon Glasgow Prestwick Airport.




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Old Photograph Lock 16 Forth And Clyde Canal Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of a barge at Lock 16 on the Forth and Clyde Canal by Falkirk, Scotland. This Scottish canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. It is 35 miles long and it runs from the River Forth near Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling, and had an important basin at Port Dundas in Glasgow. Successful in its day, it suffered as the seagoing vessels were built larger and could no longer pass through. The railway age further impaired the success of the canal. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.





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Old Photograph Fishing Boats Harbour Stromness Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in the harbour in Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photograph From The Golf Course Portree Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph from the golf course in Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Harbour Portree Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, people and ship by the harbour in Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Hampden Park Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of April 2nd, 1910 Football Match between Scotland and England at Hampden in Glasgow, Scotland. Queen's Park, the oldest club in Scottish football, have played at a venue called Hampden Park since October 1873. The first Hampden Park was overlooked by a nearby terrace named after Englishman John Hampden, who fought for the roundheads in the English Civil War. Queen's Park played at the first Hampden Park for 10 years beginning with a Scottish Cup tie on 25 October 1873. The ground hosted the first Scottish Cup Final, in 1874, and a Scotland v England match in 1878. The club moved to the second Hampden Park, 150 yards from the original, because the Cathcart District Railway planned a new line through the site of the ground's western terrace. A lawn bowling club at the junction of Queen's Drive and Cathcart Road marks the site of the first Hampden. The second Hampden Park opened in October 1884. It became a regular home to the Scottish Cup Final, but Celtic Park shared some of the big matches including the Scotland v England fixture in 1894. Hampden Park was the biggest stadium in the world from its opening in 1903 until it was surpassed by the Maracanã, a football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1950.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Arisaig Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Arisaig, Lochaber, Scotland. Arisaig station opened on 1 April 1901. The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There is a siding on the south side of the line, east of the Down platform. Opened by the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station is on the West Highland Line, 34 miles west of Fort William on the way to Mallaig.




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Old Photograph Cutting Peat Loch Druidibeag South Uist Scotland

Old photograph of crofters Cutting Peat by Loch Druidibeag, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. North Uist is the tenth largest Scottish island and the thirteenth largest island surrounding Great Britain. It has an area of 117 square miles, slightly smaller than South Uist. North Uist is connected by causeways to Benbecula via Grimsay, to Berneray, and to Baleshare. With the exception of the south east, the island is very flat, and covered with a patchwork of peat bogs, low hills and lochans, with more than half the land being covered by water.



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Old Photograph Herring Gutters Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of herring gutters at the harbour in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. It is situated by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself " the whisky capital of the world ". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business, Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748, near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Duncan McNab McEachran was born on 27 October 1841 in Campbeltown. He was a Canadian veterinarian and academic. He was the son of David McEachran and Jean Blackney, McEachran graduated from the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1861 and received his license to practice from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1862, he emigrated to Canada West, settling in Woodstock. In 1863, he helped set up, along with primary founder Andrew Smith, the Upper Canada Veterinary School, later the Ontario Veterinary College. McEachran was a staff member but he considered the admission standards and academic requirements to be inadequate. He left after three years, moving to Montreal. In 1867, Smith and McEachran again joined forces to publish the first veterinary textbook in Canada for farmers, The Canadian horse and his diseases. He died on 13 October 1924.



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Old Photograph Newark Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Newark Castle in the valley of the Yarrow Water three miles west of Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish castle was granted to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Wigtown around 1423. It was incomplete at this time and work continued until about 1475. After the fall of the Black Douglases the castle was held by the crown, and in 1473 it was given to Margaret of Denmark, wife of King James III. The castle was altered for Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch at the end of the 17th century. It was visited by Sir Walter Scott and William and Dorothy Wordsworth in 1831. The castle is believed to be haunted by the souls of women and children murdered by brutal soldiers at the site, who are heard each year on September 13th.



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Old Photograph Beauly Scotland

Old photograph of the town of Beauly located ten miles West of Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland. Beauly is the site of the Beauly Priory, or the Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin and John the Baptist, founded in 1230 by John Byset of the Aird, for Valliscaulian monks. Following the Reformation, the buildings (except for the church, which is now a ruin) passed into the possession of Lord Lovat. Beauly is also the site of Lovat Castle, which once belonged to the Bissets, but was presented by James VI, to Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat and later demolished.





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Old Photograph Ancaster Arms Hotel Callander Scotland

Old photograph of the Ancaster Arms Hotel in Callander, Trossachs, Scotland. Located on the River Teith, near Stirling, Callander is often described as the gateway to the Highlands. The people of Callander were drawn into the Jacobite wars of the 17th and 18th centuries when the Duke of Perth, a Drummond whose family owed its position to James VI, declared for the deposed House of Stuart. Continued rebellions, in Callander and elsewhere, prompted the government to invest in creating a network of military roads through the Highlands, in order to increase the mobility of their troops in dealing with the Jacobite threat. Callander's position made it the obvious choice for a road. It is an interesting fact, that the road was completed just in time for the 1745 rebellion, during which the roads were of most use to the rebels. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Crown Hotel Callander Scotland

Old photograph of the Crown Hotel in Callander, Trossachs, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crianlarich Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and hotel in Crianlarich, Scotland. Crianlarich has been a major crossroads for north and west bound journeys in Scotland since mediaeval times. In the 1750s, two military roads met in the village; in the 19th century, it became a railway junction on what is now the West Highland Line; in the 20th century it became the meeting point of the major A82 and A85 roads. As such, it is designated a primary destination in Scotland, signposted from as far as Glasgow and Paisley in the south, Perth, Perthshire, in the east, Oban in the west and Fort William in the north. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Harbour Crail East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the harbour in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Crail is a historic fishing village in the pretty East Neuk of Fife. Charming cobbled streets tumble down to the miniature harbour, which is sheltered by cliffs and surrounded by historic fishing cottages. Crail is a historic fishing village on the East Neuk of Fife coast and is well worth a visit. The Crail Fishing Disaster happened on 21 January 1765 at the mouth of the harbour and eight. 8 fishermen lost their lives. The names of those who drowned are Brown, Burns, Cunningham, Dewar, Kay, Ramsay, Runciman and Taylor. The fishermen left 6 widows and 30 children without fathers. There is likely to be thousands of descendants, now in all corners of the world.



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Old Photograph Spittalfield Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Spittalfield, Perthshire, Scotland. This was a planned weaving village with traditional Scottish cottages surrounding a village green built in 1776. In 1846 the village had 238 inhabitants, mostly weavers, hence the name Spittalfield. The village lies between Caputh and Meikleour, on the A984 road 6 miles east of Dunkeld. Sir John Muir Mackenzie, of Delvine, Baronet. was the principal heritor in the parish. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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