Tour Scotland Video Michael Nairn Manufacturer Gravestone Old Kirk Graveyard Kirkcaldy Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Michael Nairn, Scottish floorcloth manufacturer, gravestone in the Old Kirk cemetery on ancestry visit to Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Michael was born in 1804, the 3rd son of James Nairn, in fact James Nairn came from a family of Master Weavers. Michael's great grandfather Andrew Nairn was the Deacon of the Guild of Weavers and his grandfather Robert also worked in the weaving trade. In 1836 he met and married Catherine Ingram, a daughter of Alexander Ingram of St Mary's bleach fields.

Nairn is an ancient Scottish surname. It is locational from the town of Nairn, east of Inverness, and named from the river at whose mouth it stands. However the meaning is lost. Locational surnames usually developed when former inhabitants of a place moved to another area, but not so in the north of Scotland and in Cornwall, in the very south west of England. There people are named because they live at a particular place. This lead to the creation of nicknames on the basis of Jones, the butcher, and the like. The modern surname can be found recorded as Nairn, Nairns, Nairne, Nern and Nerne. Amongst the sample recordings in Scotland are the christenings of George Nairn on October 27th 1691 at Inverness, and the marriage of Donald Nairn and Isobell McEuan on January 18th 1714 at Cromdale and Inverallan, Inverness.

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