Tour Scotland Travel Video Howgate Carrier Memorial St Mungo's Church Cemetery Penicuik Midlothian

Tour Scotland travel video of the Howgate Carrier memorial in St Mungo's Church cemetery on ancestry visit to Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland. Although a this is a memorial to James Noble and his wife Ailie, it is actually more of a memorial to the series of stories written by an eminent surgeon, Dr John Brown, the stories were called Rab and his Friends. The characters of James Noble and Ailie are based on a local cart driver John Jackson, who married a Margaret Todd in 1807, moved up to Loanstone and eventually died in 1830. Rab was a large bull mastiff, owned by John Jackson which, after his death stopped eating , became hostile and was killed by Jackson's successor as a cart driver.

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