Old Photographs Of Lonmay Aberdeenshire Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Lonmay, Scottish Gaelic: Lòn Magh, a village and parish in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire. It lies along the A90 road, between Peterhead and Fraserburgh, near to the junction with the A952 road at Cortes. The parish, formerly known as St Colms, encompasses the villages of St Combs and Crimond, as well as the village of Lonmay. It had a railway station on the Formartine and Buchan Railway, but this closed in 1965. The present Lonmay Kirk dates from 1786. Lonmay is said to be the home of the ancestors of Elvis Presley. The family can be tracked back to an Andrew Presley of Lonmay, whose son emigrated to America at the time of the Jacobite rebellion. There are parish records of an Andrew Presley, who married Elspeth Leg in Lonmay in 1713. It was their son Andrew, who left Scotland for America in 1745 and settled in North Carolina. His son, also called Andrew, fought for George Washington against the British in the Wars of Independence. His grandson was also a soldier who fought for, and deserted, the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Elvis's great grandmother, Rosella Presley, was a keen churchgoer who had 10 children out of wedlock. One of her grandsons was Elvis's father, Vernon Elvis Presley, who married Gladys Love Smith. She gave birth to the rock 'n' roll legend on Jan 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi.

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