James Guthrie Tait Gravestone Cramond Edinburgh Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the James Guthrie Tait gravestone in the graveyard cemetery on ancestry visit to Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland. Tait is an Anglo Scottish surname. It is however probably of Norse Viking origin, deriving from the pre 7th century Old Norse word " teitr ", meaning glad or cheerful. In its home country it is recorded as the personal name " Teitr ", and appears in the Icelandic saga called " Landnamabok ". As Tait the name was first recorded in Scotland in 1329 when a debt due by the king was paid to Thomas Tayt.

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