Tour Scotland Travel Video Alexander Gardner Fisherman Gravestone Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Alexander Gardner, Fisherman, gravestone, in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. The surname recorded as Garden and Gardyne, both metonymics for a gardner, and Gardener, Gardenner, Gardiner, Gardinor, Gairdnar, Gairner and Gardner, is of French origins.Recorded widely in England, Ireland, and Scotland, it is both a status and an occupational name, and relates to the head gardner of a noble or even royal house. Richard Gardiner was a seaman aboard the famous ship " Mayflower " which carried the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World in 1620, but it is understood that he returned to England with the ship, and Peter Gardner actually emigrated to the Virginia Colony in Americaon the ship Elizabeth of London in 1635.

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