Spring Road Trip Drive To Visit Parish Church In Cleish Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive, with Scottish music, on narrow roads on ancestry visit to the Parish Church and cemetery in the village of Cleish, Perthshire. Built on 13th on a century site in 1832, designed by D McIntosh. Handsome hall church with Perpendicular Gothic detail. Square tower by Hardy and Wight added for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee in 1897. The hymn Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me was written by former Minister’s wife, Mary Lundie Duncan, in the Manse. Interesting wall chart and graveyard. The village is mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Abbot. The majority of buildings date from the 18th century and the village retains much charm. Notable Interments here include; Lady Emily Jane Adam of Blair Adam, born 1833 died 1906; Robert Curror of Nivingston, born 1686, died 1768 and his son John Curror born 1717, died 1809; Ebenezer Michie, died 1813, who was a friend of the famous Scottish poet, Robert Burns; Mary Lundie Duncan, author of the Cleish Hymn, Jesus Tender Shepherd Hear Me. Cleish is a rural hamlet off the B9097 between Crook of Devon and the M90 motorway, three miles south west of Kinross in central Scotland. It lies in the historic county of Kinross-shire. The Hebrides islands and the west coast of Scotland are the ancestral home of the Cleish family. Their name comes from a devotion to Christianity. The Gaelic form of the name is M'A'Lios, which is a shortened form of Mac Giolla Iosa, meaning son of the servant of Jesus. The surname Cleish was first found in Perthshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt, former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland, where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early rolls taken by the Kings of England and Scotland. Scottish settlers arrived in many of the communities that became the backbones of the United States and Canada. Many stayed, but some headed west for the endless open country of the prairies. In the American War of Independence, many Scots who remained loyal to England re-settled in Canada as United Empire Loyalists. Scots across North America were able to recover much of their lost heritage in the 20th century as Clan societies and highland games sprang up across North America. Early immigration and passenger lists have documented some of the first Cleishs to arrive on North American shores: Anne McLeish settled in Pennsylvania in 1833; George and Catherine McGillis settled in Pennsylvania in 1773. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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