Road Trip Drive To Visit Parish Church In Strathmiglo Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, on visit to the parish church and graveyard on visit to Strathmiglo, Fife. Strathmiglo is the roots of Johnny Cash ancestry in North Fife. William Cash, from Strathmiglo, was a mariner who ferried Scottish immigrants to the New World. After a few trips, he decided to stay in the USA himself, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. On one trip, he brought his nephew with him, also from Strathmiglo, and that nephew decided to stay as well. This was in the 1650s. The elder William Cash stayed in Salem, and became a prominent citizen, serving on a jury for a murder trial. The records for this trial, and William's last will and testament, still remain in the Salem town hall. The younger William Cash moved south, to Westmoreland County, Virginia and his descendants spread through Virginia, Georgia and Arkansas. The grandfather of Johnny cash, William Cash, settled in Arkansas. His youngest son, Ray Cash was born in 1897. The father of Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas.

The church was built in 1787 at the top of Kirk Wynd near the edge of the village. It is at the west of the three separate graveyards relating to the present and earlier churches. It is on raised ground, enclosed by a rubble boundary wall which encloses the graveyards to the east and north of the church. Strathmiglo is sometimes thought to have belonged to the Mormaers of Fife in early times. Before 1350 it had become the centre of the shire of Strathmigloshire. It became a burgh of barony in the 16th century, by which time it belonged to the Scotts of Balwearie. Prior to the Reformation it was the site of a Collegiate church. Johnny Cash was of Scottish descent and his clan originated around the 12th century in the Strathmiglo area of Fife. The connection was traced back to when the niece of King Malcolm IV, born 1153, died 1165, who was named Cash or Cashel, married the Earl of Fife. The first American Cash connection came in 1612 when mariner William Cash sailed from Scotland to Salem, Massachusetts, America, with a boatload of pilgrims.

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