Kirk And Graveyard On Visit To Cramond North West Of Edinburgh Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the kirk and graveyard on ancestry visit to Cramond village located North West of Edinburgh. Cramond, Scottish Gaelic: Cathair Amain. The earliest part of the church which survives today is the tower at its west end, which is thought to date back to the 1400s. Most of the church dates back to 1656. By then, nearly a century after the Reformation, the medieval church on the site had fallen into ruin and would doubtless have been structurally ill suited to the needs of the Presbyterian Kirk and its very different forms of worship. The result was the near complete rebuilding of the kirk. Further changes and refurbishments have been made a number of times since. In 1828 the architect William Burn altered the church, while David Bryce oversaw changes in 1851 and 1868. Cramond Kirk as you see it today effectively dates back to the changes concluded in 1912. Gravestones include, in order of appearance in the video; the William Henry Haig gravestone; the Robert Haig gravestone; the James Guthrie Tait gravestone. The surname Haig is Old English in origin, and traces its history back to the Middle Ages, when the island of Britain was inhabited by the Anglo Saxons. The name is derived from the Old English " haga " or the Old Norse " hagi ," which both mean " dweller by the haw. " It is likely that the name was first borne by someone who lived near a hedged field or enclosure. Tait is an Anglo Scottish surname. It is however probably of Norse Viking origin, deriving from the pre 7th century Old Norse word " teitr ", meaning glad or cheerful. In its home country it is recorded as the personal name " Teitr ", and appears in the Icelandic saga called " Landnamabok ". As Tait the name was first recorded in Scotland in 1329 when a debt due by the king was paid to Thomas Tayt. The surname Cramond was first found in Gascony, French: Gascogne, an area of southwest France bordering Spain. Spelling variations of the name include: Gramont, Gramond, Gramons, Les Gramons, Le Gramont, Le Gramond, Gramand, Gramanc, Gramande, Gramandes, Graumont and many more. James Cramond settled in Philadelphia, America, in 1795; Miss Cramond, a British settler travelled from Gravesend, England, aboard the ship Kingston arriving in Auckland, New Zealand on 29th December 1858. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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