Tour Scotland Travel Video Summer Road Trip Drive To Dalyell Estate In West Lothian



Tour Scotland Summer travel video of a road trip drive East on the A803 and A904 roads from Linlithgow on ancestry visit to the Dalyell Estate in West Lothian, Scotland. There was a manor house on the estate by 1478, when records indicate the owner was an Archibald Meldrum, son of the late James Meldrum of the Bynnis. In 1599, it was owned by James Lord Lyndsay, who sold it to Sir William Livingston of Kilsyth. In 1599, it was owned by James Lord Lyndsay, who sold it to Sir William Livingston of Kilsyth In 1612 the estate was purchased by a wealthy and well connected Edinburgh burgess, Thomas Dalyell. Dalyell was a butter merchant, who had become prosperous importing butter from the Orkney Islands to Leith in Edinburgh, to be sold as axle grease. In 1601, he had married the daughter of Edward Lord Kinloss and, when the Scots King James VI ascended to the English throne and Kinloss was made his Master of the Rolls in London, England. Dalyell obtained the lucrative post of deputy. In that senior position, he acquired enough of a fortune to return to Scotland and join the landed gentry. He bought " the lands of Bynnis and Croceflattis with the manor place thereof ", and the Dalyell family have lived on the estate ever since.

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