Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive on a single track route, with Scottish music, on ancestry history visit to Easter Elcho in Perthshire. In 1468, the first record of the lands of Elcho is in the Register of the Great Seal when Easter Elcho was granted to Sir John Wemyss of Wemyss by King James III. Elchoch or Elkok is also referred to in a 15th century literary source. In 1541, the adjoining lands of Wester Elcho contained the priory of Elcho, the house of a convent of Cistercian nuns. By the middle of the 16th century they were in financial difficulties and John Wemyss made several loans to them. He was appointed heritable bailie and various parcels of land were leased to him and his heirs. The capitale messuagium de Elquhoch is referred to as early as 1541, and in 1552 a John Wemyss is mentioned as de eodem, meaning, of that place.
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