Tour Scotland photograph of the James Simpson gravestone in the old churchyard cemetery in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. Erected by James Simpson, Shoemaker, Alyth, and Peter Simpson, Merchant, Alyth. The surname is first recorded in Scotland in 1405, when William Symsoun appears in the Edinburgh Burgess rolls, whilst in 1482 Wylzame Symptsun, was declared innocent of detaining King James 111 of Scotland, in Edinburgh Castle.
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