Agnes Crichton Gravestone Graveyard Currie Edinburgh Scotland



Tour Scotland video of the Agnes Crichton gravestone on ancestry visit to the graveyard cemetery at Currie Kirk by Edinburgh, Scotland. This interesting surname name is of Scottish and English origin and is locational from a place so called near Utloxeter in Staffordshire, England, and Crichton near Edinburgh in Scotland. The place name in Scotland is derived from the Gaelic " crioch ", meaning a border or boundary. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Turstan de Crectune, witness of King David's Charter, which was dated around 1128 in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the reign of King David 1, of Scotland.

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