Tour Scotland Video Burns and Old Parish Church Kilsyth

Tour Scotland travel video of Burns and Old Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kilsyth, located halfway between Glasgow and Stirling in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Gothic style stone-built church with battlemented tower built in 1816 and refurbished in 1932, architect Mr Shepherd. The tower, clock and bell were gifted by Sir Charles Edmonstone of Duntreath, born 10 October 1764, died 1 April 1821. He was the third son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College and subsequently at Christ Church, Oxford, England. Having been called to the Bar, he was one of the six clerks in Chancery until the time of his father's death. In 1806 he was elected Member for Dumbartonshire, but he lost his seat in the general election of the following year. In 1812 he became Member for Stirlingshire and held the seat until his death. A Tory like his father, he supported Lord Liverpool's government during the later part of the Napoleonic Wars. He married firstly, Emma, daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle of Rode Hall, Cheshire, by whom he had a son and a daughter. He married secondly on 5 December 1804 Louisa Hotham, daughter of the 2nd Baron Hotham, by whom he had four sons and two daughters. He died at Brighton in 1821, apparently from a stroke, aged fifty eight, and was succeeded by his eldest son.


Tour Scotland video of Burns and Old Parish Church in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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