Tour Scotland Autumn Video Weem Castle Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of Weem Castle also known as Castle Menzies on ancestry visit and trip near Aberfeldy in Highland Perthshire. This Scottish Castle was the seat of the Chiefs of Clan Menzies for over 400 years. In 1665, Sir Alexander Menzies was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia. The chiefs opposed the religious and political policies of James VII, and when he was forced from his throne in 1688, Menzies declared for Queen Mary and her husband, the Prince of Orange. At the end of the eighteenth century, the Menzies name gained momentary prominence when James Menzies, a merchant in Weem, was one of the leaders of a protest by thousands of men and women against the Militia Ballot Act, passed in fear of a French invasion in the wake of the Revolution of 1789. The Menzies baronetcy became extinct on the death of Sir Neil Menzies of Menzies, eighth Baronet, in 1910. His sister, Miss Egidia Menzies, succeeded to the estates, but on her death in 1918, they were sold. Menzies Castle fell into a dilapidated state, and during the Second World War was used as a Polish army medical stores depot. It was saved from ruin in 1957, when it was purchased by the Menzies Clan Society.

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