Spring Sunday Road Trip Drive Over Bridge Kenmore Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring Sunday travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, over the bridge over the River Tay on ancestry history visit to the village of Kenmore, Highland Perthshire. The name Kenmore derives from the Gaelic ceann, meaning head, and mor, meaning great. The 1845 Statistical Accounts of Kenmore note that past records have also referred to the village as Kenmure, Candmoir and Kandmor. The bridge built in 1774, by engineer John Baxter, carries the A827 public road over the River Tay at the North East end of Loch Tay and to the North West of the village. The ancient Scottish and English border region is the ancestral home of the name Baxter. It was first used by the Boernician people, and is a name for a female baker, who were known as " bakesters ". With the continuing development of Old English, the word gradually came to be applied to both men and women. The surname Baxter was first found in Forfarshire part of the Tayside region of North Eastern Scotland, and present day Council Area of Angus, where they held a family seat from ancient times. Agnes Bakester of Yorkshire, England, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379.
Henry Baxter, a weaver, arrived in Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania, sometime between 1825 and 1832; Alexander Baxter, arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship Indu" in 1839; George Baxter, arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship Constance in 1848; William Baxter, a British settler travelled from London, England, aboard the ship Maori arriving in Auckland, New Zealand on 3rd November 1859; John Baxter, landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; Gregory Baxter, landed in Massachusetts, America, in 1630; John Baxter, landed in Maryland, America, in 1633; Robert Baxter, aged 21, landed in Virginia, America, in 1635; Jane Baxter, landed in Virginia, America, in 1636; William Baxter, landed in Virginia, America,in 1636.

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