Parish Church Strathtay Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer 4K travel video of the Parish Church on ancestry, history visit to Strathtay in Highland Perthshire. Simple Gothic church of chancel and nave with octagonal tower, replacing a cast iron church. The chancel was built in 1888 and the nave added in 1919. Strathtay is a small rural village on the River Tay. J. M. Barrie is known to have spent summer holidays in Srathtay. Sir James Matthew Barrie, born 9 May 1860, died 19 June 1937, was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, England, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens , first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 " fairy play " about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.

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