Summer Outlander Location Bruce Fountain Falkland Village Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video of the Bruce Fountain on ancestry, history visit to the village of Falkland, Fife. One of the first scenes for Outlander was filmed in the picturesque town of Falkland, which substituted for 1940s Inverness in the Highlands. The Bruce Fountain is where Claire comes across the ghost of Jamie.

The surname Bruce was first found in Yorkshire, England, where Robert de Bruis was granted ninety-four manors. His son Robert de Bruys traveled north with Earl David of Huntingdon who later became King of Scotland and was granted large estates in Annandale, Scotland about 1150. Robert de Bruys had two sons: Robert and William. Robert, who became known as Robert the Bruce, would later claim the crown of Scotland and unite Scotland against the English. He defeated the English army soundly in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. As a result of this battle Scotland gained its independence from England as declared in the Treaty of Northampton in 1328. Spelling variations of this family name include: Brywiss, Broyse, Bruce, Bruice, Bruise, Brus, Broys, Brywass, Brues, Brywess, Bruwes, Bruys, Bruze, Brwze, Brywes, Bruse, Braose, Bruis, Browse and many more.

Douglas Bruce arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship William Nicol in 1840; Charles Bruce landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1840; James Bruce arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; George Bruce arrived in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, in 1862; Sarah Bruce arrived in Massachusetts, America, in 1643; Alexander Bruce who settled in Virginia, America, in 1716; James Bruce settled in South Carolina, America, in 1716.

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