Tour Scotland Travel Video Piper Graham Drummond Solo Piping Competition Highland Gathering Blair Atholl Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Piper Graham Drummond playing the bagpipes at the Solo Piping Competition at the Highland Gathering on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip by Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Perthshire. The Atholl Gathering takes place on the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May every year. This unrivalled spectacle gives locals and visitors alike the chance to participate in a unique Highland tradition that has persisted for generations.

This great and noble name of Drummond is of Scottish territorial origin from any of the various places, including Drymen near Stirling. that get their names from the Gaelic " dromainn ", a derivative of " druim ", a ridge. Drummond Hill near Kenmore, Pertshire, and Drummond Castle, seat of the Earl of Ancaster, south west of Crieff, locate the family in Perthshire. The principal family of the name are believed to be descended from Maurice, a Hungariao nobleman, who accompanied Edgar Atheling and his sister Margaret to Scotland, where she married King Malcolm 111. The surname was first recorded at the end of the 12th Century, Other early recordings include Malcolm de Drummond who witnessed a charter by Gillemichell Edolf circa 1270, and Gilbert de Dromund of Dumbretan who rendered homage in 1296. The family frequently appear as witnesses in the early charters of the earls of Levenax, in whose household they held various offices. Annabella Brummond, born 1350, died 1402, married King Robert III and was mother of James 1. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Gilbert de Drummyn, chaplain to Alwyn, Earl of Levenax, which was dated circa 1199.

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