Tour Scotland travel video of an early Winter dreich road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, on ancestry visit to New Gilston village in Fife. Dreich is a Scots word for dull and cloudy weather. New Gilston was built around 1700 and owes its existence to coal mining. The 1841 census data for the village shows that the majority of adult males in the vilage were employed either as agricultural labourers or as coal miners, with a small number of hand loom weavers and carters and a couple of blacksmiths and stone masons). At that time the village had a school for a number of years, a subscription school having begun in 1832.
The surname Gilston was first found in Dumfriesshire and in Warwickshire, England, at Gilson, a hamlet that dates back to 1232 AD. Gilston is a village near Harlow in the county of Hertfordshire. It dates back to 1197 when it was first listed as Gedelston and literally meant farmstead or village of a man called Gedel or Gydel. Spelling variations of this family name include: Gillson, Gilson, Gillieson and others.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Doctor Gillson who settled in Boston, Massachusetts, America, in 1764; followed by Mr. Gillson in 1768; Ann Gilson settled in New England in 1635; Edward Gilson settled in Virginia in 1670.
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