Tour Scotland Travel Video James Donaldson Baker Gravestone Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the James Donaldson, Baker, gravestone in the cemetery of the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Donaldson surname of Scottish and Irish origin, is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic patronymic name " MacDomhnall ", meaning " son of Donald ". Haket Donald paid his contribution for peace to the Bailie of Kinross in 1328 as recorded in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Davide Donaldson was one of the tenants of Campsie in 1443, and Patrick Donaldson was Keeper of the Kings Wardrobe in 1516. Walter Donaldson in 1620 was a philosophical writer and part of an embassy sent by King James V1 of Scotland to Denmark in 1594. Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson, born 1812, died 1867, was an Australian statesman and was finance minster of New South Wales in 1856. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Henry Donaldson, one of the Garrison of Edinburgh Castle, which was dated 1339. The Baker surname is of Olde English pre 8th century origins deriving from the word boeccure. The surname is always occupational, but not always for a maker of bread. There are a number of possible origins and these include an official with special responsibilities for the baking ovens in a monastery or castle, as well as the keeper of the communal kitchen in a town or village, since most of the humbler households had no cooking facilities other than a pot over a fire.

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