Early Autumn Road Trip Drive From Dunkeld To Blairgowrie Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video of a half hour road drive trip, with Scottish music, from Dunkeld, East on the the A923 road through Butterstone, Forneth and Kinloch on ancestry, history visit to Blairgowrie, Perthshire. The A923 road was built, or at least rebuilt by Major Caulfeild in the 1760s as part of the military road network. It was a southern extension of the recently built route north from Blairgowrie to Fort George via Braemar and Blairgowrie, now followed mostly by the A93 and A939. The A984 from Coupar to Dunkeld was built at about the same time, and it seems that both routes followed pre existing roads and paths for the most part, but brought them up to military road standards.

The surname Caulfield was first found in Fermanagh, Irish: Fear Manach, in the southwestern part of Northern Ireland, Province of Ulster, where they held a family seat from ancient times. They were directly descended from King Colla da Crioch through the Maguires, Princes of Fermanagh. Spelling variations of the Caulfield family name include Caulfeild, Caulkin, Calfkins, Cawlfield, Cawfield, MacCaul, MacCawell and many more.
Esther Caulfield, aged 23, a Scottish settler travelled from Greenock, Scotland, aboard the ship Wellington arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 8th March 1883, heading for Invercargill; Ann Caulfield, aged 22, arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, aboard the ship Cupid in 1834; Mary Caulfield, aged 24, landed in Pennsylvania, America, in 1776; Thomas Caulfield, aged 42, arrived in Georgia, America, in 1812; Mary Caulfield, her husband Thomas and one child, settled in Charleston, South Carolina, America, in 1822.

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