Tour Scotland Travel Video Ann Mercer Craig Gravestone Ratho

Tour Scotland travel video of the Ann Mercer Craig gravestone in the graveyard cemetery on ancestry visit to Ratho in West Lothian, Scotland. The Craig surname is of Scottish locational origin from any of the various places thus called, including Craig in North East Forfarshire, and Craig in South Ayrshire. The name derives from the Old Gaelic " creag " meaning rock, a word that has been borrowed in Middle English as " crag ". In some instances, the name may be topographical, from residence by a steep or precipitous rock. Anneys del Crage of Edinburgh and Johan del Cragge of Lanarkshire rendered homage to John Balliol in 1296, and in 1323 reference was made to the land of James del Crag, son and heir of John del Crag, in Ayrshire. Mercer is an English and Scottish occupational surname for a trader, or merchant. It derives from the Old French word " mercier " or " merchier." The name was very early into Scotland, William Mercer witnessing two charters on behalf of the Abbey of Melrose in the year 1205, whilst Aleumnus Mercer, was bound over to keep the peace, as part of a bond between King Alexander 11 of Scotland, and King Henry 111 of England in the year 1244. Today there are a number of variant forms of the surname, these include Mercies, Marker, and Merchier. Dorcas Mercer, aged 30 yrs., was one of the earliest colonists to the New World Colonies, embarking from London, England, on the " Assurance ", bound for Virginia, America, on July 1635.

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