Tour Scotland Video Bagpiper Aaron Bryce St John's Kirk Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of of Bagpiper Aaron Bryce playing the pipes on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to St John's Kirk in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The burgh of Perth was important in medieval times due to its position as the lowest safe crossing point on the River Tay and its proximity to Scone, the Coronation site for Scottish kings. St John’s, the burgh church, stood at its centre giving Perth its alternative name St John’s Town, a name which lives on in that of the local football team, St Johnstone. Earliest written record of St John’s is 1128 when King David I ceded its revenue to the Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, in return for which the Abbey provided a priest.

The surname Bryce is probably of Celtic origin. Bricius Judex is recorded in the Register of the Abbey of Aberbrothoc, Scotland, in 1189, and a Bricius de Kyrkebi was recorded in 12th Century Social and Economic Documents of London, England. There is an old Lennox family, of the name Bryce, Adam and John Bryce in Braco who were resettlers of outlawed members of Clan Gregor in 1613.

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