Old Photograph Douglas Scotland

Old photograph of Douglas village located twelve miles South West of Lanark Scotland. Within the village stands a statue to one of the Covenanters, James Gavin who was persecuted for his religious faith and had his ears cut off with his own tailoring scissors for refusing to renounce it. After suffering this humiliation he was transported to a life of slavery in the cotton fields of the West Indies.

The most famous association of the surname Gavin is with Sir Gawaine. He was one of the most famous knights of the round table at the court of the British or Breton King Arthur, and who, according to legend, in about the year 590 a.d. slew the giant " Rhyence ". The name in Ireland is often from the far west and Counties Cork and Tipperary, is also usually found as Gavan or Gavin.



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