Wallace Monument On Abbey Craig On Visit Near Stirling Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the Wallace Monument on ancestry visit by Abbey Craig near Stirling. The tower. which commemorates Sir William Wallace, a 13th century Scottish hero, stands on the Abbey Craig, a volcanic crag above Cambuskenneth Abbey, from which Wallace was said to have watched the gathering of the army of King Edward I of England, just before the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. The distance by road from Perth, Perthshire to the Wallace Monument is 35. 6 miles. The surname Wallace was first found in Ayrshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland. Wallace has been spelled Wallace, Wallis, Wallys, Walace, Uallas in Gaelic, and others. The Clan Wallace is a Lowlands Scottish Clan. John Wallace, a Scottish convict from Aberdeen, was transported aboard the Andromeda on October 16, 1826, settling in Van Diemen's Land, Australia; Jane Wallace, Scottish convict was transported aboard the Amphitrite on August 21, 1833, settling in New South Wales, Australia; John Howard Wallace, aged 23, a mechanic, arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship Aurora in 1840; Martha Wallace, aged 23, arrived in Quebec, Canada, aboard the ship Atlas in 1815; Andrew Wallace landed in Virginia, America, in 1702; Eleanor, Elizabeth, George, Jane, William, and Mary Wallace all, who settled in South Carolina, America, in 1768; Andrew, Boyd, Daniel, Edward, Francis, George, Hugh, James, John, Michael, Patrick, Robert, Samuel, Thomas, and William Wallace all settled in Philadelphia, America, between 1820 and 1870. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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