Late Autumn Road Trip Drive To Visit Collairnie Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland late Autumn travel video, with Scottish music, of part of a road trip drive on ancestry visit to Collairnie by Dunbog in the Howe of Fife. Collairnie castle was home to a branch of the Barclay Family who held the lands of Collairnie from at least the 14th century. There are two significant inscriptions over the main entrance. One is dated 1581 and the other, which suggests further work, is dated 1607. The Barclays held the castle until 1717 when it passed onto the hands of the Balfours of Fernie. On her way to St Andrews in 1564, it is said that Mary Queen of Scots spent three nights at Collairnie. There she sealed a Charter before continuing her journey and her fateful meeting with Darnley. The tower is reputed to have two finely paneled tempera ceilings on the second and third floors. The ceilings were painted with the arms of nearly fifty families who had ties to the Barclays. In 1844 an extensive farm steading was built by the mason Archibald Mitchell, enveloping the south and west sides of the castle, and the main body of the castle was truncated and adapted as a barn. Although the surname Barclay is generally known as Scottish, the origins of the name come from when the ancestors of the family lived in the parish of Berkeley in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Spelling variations of this Clan and family name include: Berkeley, Barkley, Barklay, Barckley, Barclay and many more. George Barclay, aged 16, was a Scottish convict who was convicted in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland for 7 years for stealing, he was transported aboard the Bengal Merchant on 27th September 1834, arriving in New South Wales, Australia, he died in 1898; Thomas Barclay travelled from Portsmouth aboard the ship Duke of Portland arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 13th October 1851; John Barclay arrived in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1813; Thomas Barclay arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, America, in 1707; William Barclay arrived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, America, in 1732. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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