Tour Scotland Travel Video George Sharp Gravestone Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the George Sharp gravestone in the cemetery of the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. George Street in Cellardyke is named after George who was a Provost in that fishing village. The Sharp surname, also recorded as Sharpe, and the diminutives Sharpin, Sharplin and Sharpling, is an English surname. It is a good example of a surname originating from a medieval nickname, with the derivation from the Olde English pre 7th Century word " scearp ", meaning sharp and used to describe a " sharp or smart " person. As a surname it is found recorded all over the British Isles.

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