Trail Memorial Stained Glass Window St Machar's Cathedral Aberdeen Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the James William Helenus Trail memorial stained glass window in St Machar's Cathedral on ancestry visit to Aberdeen. James was born on Birsay, Orkney. Educated in Aberdeen, he followed the classical curriculum, completing an arts degree in 1870. Trail was then permitted to study medicine, which allowed him to pursue his lifelong interest in natural history. During this time he was appointed as botanist on the Amazon Steam Navigation Company's explorations of Brazil, spending two years in the Amazon. Trail went on to complete his study of medicine graduating in 1876. He was appointed Regius Professor of Botany at Aberdeen University In 1877, and established the University Herbarium with his own plant collections and those bequeathed to him. Professor Trail died on 18th September 1919.

The Scottish Trail surname is a habitational name, taken on from a place name; perhaps from the Gaelic " Traill creek " which runs into Upper Loch Torridon. Spelling variations of this family name include: Trail, Traill, Trayle, Treil, Trelly, Teign, Pentrail, Traylor and many more.

William Trail, born 1837, aged 23, a British blacksmith travelling from London aboard the ship " Gananoque " arrived in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 9th May 1860.

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