Old Photograph Beech Hill Coupar Angus Scotland

Old photograph of people outside a cottage on Beech Hill in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. The town was traditionally on the border between Angus and Perthshire, the town centre being in Perthshire. The Angus part was transferred to Perthshire in 1891, but the town retained its name. In the Middle Ages it was the site of the major Cistercian abbey of Coupar Angus, one of Scotland's most important monasteries, founded by King Malcolm IV. Several Polish units were stationed in and around Coupar Angus from 1939 to 1945. John Bain " Jock " Sutherland, born March 21, 1889, died April 11, 1948, who was an American football player and coach. He coached college football at Lafayette College from 1919 to 1923, and the University of Pittsburgh from 1924 to 1938, and professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1940 to 1941, and Pittsburgh Steelers from 1946 to 1947. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. A native of Coupar Angus in Scotland, Sutherland got his start in football by playing end at the University of Pittsburgh, America, commonly known as Pitt, under legendary coach Glenn Scobey Warner. Sutherland was named an All-American and played on Pitt's national championship teams in 1915 and 1916. William Nairne Clark, one of the two protagonists that fought the last recorded Regulation duel with flintlock pistols in Western Australia, was born in Coupar Angus in 1804. Clark and his opponent, George French Johnson, faced each other in Fremantle, Western Australia, on the morning of Friday 6 June 1832. Johnson was fatally wounded in the hip in the encounter. Clark was subsequently charged with, and acquitted of, Johnson's murder. Clark, who had trained as a lawyer,emigrated to Western Australia on the convict ship Eliza in 1830. He initially practised as a lawyer before founding The West Australian Journal newspaper in 1836. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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