Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of Ruthven Barracks near Ruthven on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Badenoch and and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands. The barracks at Ruthven were completed in 1721. The barracks accommodated 120 troops and 28 horses for dragoons. In August 1745 a unit of 12 British soldiers, commanded by a Sergeant Terrence Molloy of the 6th Regiment of Foot, defended the barracks against 200 Jacobites and lost just one man. The following year Molloy surrendered to a larger force of Jacobites, commanded by John Gordon of Glenbucket. On the day after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, some 3,000 Jacobites retreated to Fort Ruthven but they were sent home by Prince Charles Edward Stuart as their situation was hopeless. The departing Jacobites destroyed the barracks on 17 April 1746.. The remnants remain.
The surname Ruthven was first found in Angus, Gaelic: Aonghas, at Ruthven, a parish in the Tayside region of northeastern Scotland, and present day Council Area of Angus, formerly known as Forfar or Forfarshire. This noble Scottish family claims to trace its ancestry to Thor, the Scandinavian, who settled in Scotland in the reign of King David I. It is thought that they held the Barony of Ruthven in Angus about 1050, and then branched into Perthshire. Spelling variations of this family name include: Ruthven, Ruthen, Ruthin, Wruthven, Wruthen, Rutheven, Rotheven, Rothveyn and many more. The Clan Ruthven lands in Perthshire, Scotland take their name from the Scottish Gaelic, Ruadhainn which means Dun uplands. The clan chief's family are of Norse origin. They first settled in East Lothian but by the end of the twelfth century they were in Perthshire.
Mary Ruthven was a British Convict who was convicted in Glasgow, Scotland for 7 years, and transported aboard the Asia on 9th March 1847 to Tasmania; George Ruthven, born 1872, aged 15 months, was an infant Scottish settler who travelled from Glasgow aboard the ship Peter Denny arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 3rd September 1873, sadly he died on board the ship. Colin Ruthven arrived in Ontario, Canada, in 1818; John Ruthven arrived in Quebec, Canada, in 1828; Charles Ruthven, aged 31, immigrated to the United States from Paisley, in 1906; Robert Ruthven, aged 32, settled in America from Gorebridge, Scotland, in 1909; Mary Ruthven, aged 21, landed in America, in 1893.
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