Spring Road Trip Drive Old Military Road To Visit Trinafour Perthshire Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a May road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, North on General Wade's old Military single track road on ancestry visit to Trinafour in the Highlands of Perthshire. Between 1728 and 1730, Wade's men built the road from Dunkeld to Inverness, connecting Perth and Inverness. By July 1728 Wade was able to write in a letter that he had 300 working on the road, that 15 miles of it were finished and that he hoped to have 40 miles completed by October.The road from Crieff led north by the Sma' Glen and Amutree through Glen Cochil and into Aberfeldy by what is now called Old Crieff Road. To the north of the bridge it pioneered the present day route to Tummel Bridge, Trinafour and Dainacardoch where it joined the road from Dunkeld to Inverness in the Highlands. The surname Wade was first found in Durham, England, where they held a family seat at Hilton Castle from very ancient times. Over the years, many variations of the name Wade were recorded, including Wade, Waide, Waid and others. John Wade, born 1775, aged 28, a British shoe maker was convicted in Surrey, England for 7 years for stealing, and was transported aboard the Calcutta in February 1803, arriving in New South Wales, Australia, he died in 1829; Robert Wade, an English convict from Suffolk, was transported aboard the ship Asia on October 22nd, 1824, settling in New South Wales, Australia; Hugh Wade, born 1796, aged 30, an Irish labourer was convicted in Kilkenny, Ireland for 7 years for stealing, and transported aboard the ship Boyne on 28th October 1826, arriving in New South Wales, Australia, he died in 1832; Francis Wade landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1802; Edward Wade settled in Conception Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada; Jonathan Wade, arrived in America in 1632; Nicholas Wade arrived in Massachusetts, America, in 1635; George Wade, settled in Virginia, America, in 1635. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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