Tour Scotland video of the Thomas Robertson, Gardener, gravestone on ancestry visit to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Thomas Robertson, Gardener, Rattray, who died 3rd of February 1889, aged 86 years. Also his spouse Margaret McQueen, who died 2th of May, 1835, aged 84 years.
The Robertson surname is spelt variously as Robertson, Roberts, Robarts and Robeson, and amongst the early records is one which shows that Thomas Robertson, a merchant Scot, had a safe conduct to travel to England in 1444, although legend has it, that the patronymic Robertson was adopted by a Scottish family, after King Robert the Bruce of Scotland in circa 1306, said that he regarded them as his children. Nicholas Robertson, aged 30, was an early emigrant to America. He embarked from London on the ship " Blessing " bound for New England in June 1635. Alexander Robertson, born 1670, died 1749, thirteenth Baron of Struan, became chief of the clan Robertson in 1688.
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