Tour Scotland Video Robert Ruthven Saddler Gravestone South Queensferry

Tour Scotland video of the Robert Ruthven, Saddler gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry visit to South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Robert J H Ruthven, Saddler, born 1866, died 1949, aged 83. Agnes G Stewart Saddler, born 1870, died 1957, aged 87, wife of Robert J H Ruthven Saddler.

This is a famous Scottish clan surname. It is locational from the barony of Ruthven in the former county of Angus. In the ancient charters of Scotland, the original family were recorded in the register of the abbey of Scone by Perth, Perthshire, as being witnesses to various transfers of land by the royal family of Scotland in the years between 1125 and 1150. Interestingly all the early personal names such as Thor and Swein are Scandanavian, showing the influence of Danish-Viking settlers in the region. The first of the clan to have held the title of de Ruthven', was Swan de Ruthven in the year 1211.

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