Tour Scotland Video Samuel George Kennedy Gravestone Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Samuel George Kennedy Gravestone in Greyfriars Graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Gravestone of Reverend Samuel George Kennedy, Minister of the West Church, Parish of Perth, who died on 30th December 1835.

There are two origins of the Kennedy surname: one Scottish and the other Irish. The most commonly known Kennedy family is the Irish one made famous by the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, whose ancestors came from County Wexford. The Kennedy clan surname in Scotland originated in Ayrshire, where they were a power house. Originally they came from the western isles and are of Celtic Norse stock. In the fifteenth century, one Ulric Kennedy fled Ayrshire to the highlands for refuge where he was granted protection under the Chief of Clan Cameron. From this Highland branch, Kennedys settled on the Isle of Skye. A branch also was established in northeast Scotland, at Aberdeen.

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