Tour Scotland Spring travel video of an April road trip drive, with Scottish music, on mostly single track roads on ancestry visit to Gauldry in North East Fife. Gauldry, locally known as The Gauldry, is a village located 2 miles south west of Newport on Tay, 1 mile south east of Balmerino, and half a mile south of Bottomcraig. The name derives from the Scots " gallow raw ", the row of houses leading towards the gallows on Gallowhill to the east. Once occupied by farmers, weavers and estate workers, Gauldry is now largely populated by commuters to Dundee and Cupar. Gauldry has a village hall built in 1896 and a park named Duncan Park dedicated to a great granddaughter of Admiral Viscount Duncan of Camperdown.
Duncan's career had been worthy but unremarkable until his last posting, when he emerged as one of Britain's great heroes of the Napoleonic Wars. With Duncan at its command, a North Sea fleet achieved a resounding victory over the Dutch at the Battle of Camperdown on 11 October 1797. Danloux, painting two years after the event, imagines Duncan, calm in the midst of gun and cannon fire, on the deck of the Venerable. Duncan's uncle was Sir William Duncan, physician-extraordinary to King George III and first of the Duncan baronets. On 6 June 1777 Duncan married Henrietta, born 1749, died 1832, daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session. On his death on 4 August 1804 Duncan left a family of four daughters and two sons. His eldest son succeeded to the peerage and later became Earl of Camperdown; the second son, Henry, died a captain in the navy and K.C.H. in 1835. His sister Margaret was mother to James Haldane Tait who served under him several times and rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. Henrietta and her children are buried in Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh east of the church.
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