Tour Scotland Video 1610 Nicol Moncrief Marriage Lintel Falkland Village Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Nicol Moncrief marriage lintel at Moncrief House on the High Street on ancestry visit to the village of Falkland by Falkland in Fife, Scotland. Moncrief House was probably built in 1610 for Nicol Moncrief, a servant of King James VI who praises and thanks his master in an inscription on the front of the building. The plaque reads: " AL PRAISE TO GOD AND THANKIS TO THE MOST EXCELLENT MONARCH OF GREAT BRITAINE OF WHOSE PRINCELIE LIBERALITIE THIS IS MY PORTIVN. DEO LAVS. ESTO FIDVS. ADEST MERCES. NICOLL MONCRIEFF. 1610. " One of the first scenes for Outlander was filmed in the picturesque town of Falkland, which substituted for 1940s Inverness.

The surname Moncrieff was first found in Perthshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt, former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland, where William de Moncrefe and John de Moncref, rendered homage to King Edward I of England during the latter's brief conquest of Scotland in 1296. In that same year Thomas de Mouncref was taken as a Scots prisoner of war at Dunbar Castle. The estate of Easter Moncreiffe was gifted to a younger son of the family in 1312. It is a habitational name, taken on from Moncreiffe Hill near the Royal Burgh of Perth. The surname itself came from the name of the lands granted to Sir Matthew de Muncrefe by King Alexander II in 1248. It is claimed that Sir Matthew was a member of a cadet branch of a family desceded from Maldred, brother of King Duncan and a descendant of Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland, who lived circa 400 A.D. in Tara. Today, Moncreiffe Island, also known as Friarton Island divides the River Tay into two channels as it flows through Perth in Scotland.

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