Autumn Road Trip Drive To Visit Parish Church Glendevon Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, on ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Glendevon, Perthshire. Plain white washed church of 1803. Large stained glass window by Alf Webster of Glasgow 1913 and small stained glass window in memory of Reverend Alexander Taylor. Many memorial plaques. Pulpit and Communion table and chair carved by Mr Philips of Tormaukin. Many Sinclair gravestones in the graveyard. The valley of the River Devon runs east through the Ochil Hills to the village of Glendevon. Many travellers seek out this area and find comfort in the beauty and peace of this Church, which is now linked to Dollar and Muckhart. The surname Sinclair was first found in the barony of Roslyn, Midlothian where King Alexander I of Scotland granted a parcel of land to William de Sancto Claro in 1162. They were originally from St Clare, Pont d'Eveque, Normandy, and are descended from Walderness Compte de Saint Clare who arrived in England with William the Conqueror. Sir Henry Sinclair fought with King Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, and helped assure the independence of the Scottish Kingdom. Sir Henry's son married Isabel, the heiress of the earldom of Orkney, and their son became the senior Earl of Norway. The Clan achieved great status having married into both Norwegian and Scottish royalty Marion Sinclair, a Scottish convict from Perth, Perthshire, was transported aboard the ship Arab on December 14, 1835, settling in Van Diemen's Land, Australia; James Stuart Sinclair, aged 31, arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship Indus in 1839; Duncan Sinclair, landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1839 aboard the ship Success; Robert Sinclair settled in St. David, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1784; Samuel Sinclair landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1750; Edward Sinclair, aged 55 immigrated to Canada, arriving at the Grosse Isle Quarantine Station in Quebec aboard the ship Scotland departing from the port of Cork, Ireland but died on Grosse Isle in July 1847; Angus Sinclair landed in Maryland, America, in 1674; Alex Sinclair, aged 36, landed in North Carolina, America, in 1774. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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