Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish accordion music, on rural country roads on ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Aberdalgie, Strathearn, Perthshire. The earliest patrons of Aberdalgie were the Oliphants. Aberdalgie was united with the parish of Dupplin in 1618. The Oliphants were succeeded as patrons in 1625 by the Kinnoull family. The present church was erected by the Earl of Kinnoull in 1773. In more recent times the church has benefitted from the interest of the Dewar family who became lairds of Dupplin in 1911. Under the patronage of John Dewar, first Baron Forteviot of Dupplin, the prominent Scottish architect, Sir Robert Lorimer, remodelled the interior in 1929. Aberdalgie is the area where the Medieval heads of Clan Oliphant are buried. Prominent among them is Sir William Oliphant, the resolute Governor of Stirling Castle when in 1304 it held out longer than any other against King Edward I of England, during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Also buried here are Sir William's son, Sir Walter Oliphant, and his wife, Princess Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of King Robert the Bruce.
The surname Oliphant was first found in Perthshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt, former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland. The first of the descendants of this Norman, occurring in the public records, was David Olifard, who served in the army of King Stephen in 1141. A conspiracy was formed against the Empress Maud, who escaped from Winchester, England, attended by King David I. Surrounded by the enemy, the Scottish King owed his safety to the exertions of his godson Olifard, who, although in the adverse party, aided his Royal opponent. In recompense, the rescued Monarch gave to his preserver, who settled in North Britain, the Lands of Crailing and Smallham in Roxburghshire, and conferred on him the dignified office of Justiciary. Thus was established the famous family of Oliphant, so distinguished in the annals of Scotland. Spelling variations of this family name include: Oliphant, Olifant, Olifard and others.
William Smith Oliphant, aged 28, a shoemaker, arrived in South Australia in 1849 aboard the ship Himalaya; William Oliphant, aged 26, a shepherd, arrived in South Australia in 1850 aboard the ship Lysander; Mary Ann Oliphant, born 1815, aged 47, was a British settler who travelled from London aboard the ship Edward Thornhill arriving in Nelson, South Island, New Zealand in 1862; Lilly Oliphant, aged 17, a housemaid, arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship Rakaia in 1879; David Oliphant, aged 45, a printer, arrived in Quebec, Canada, aboard the ship Atlas in 1815; Andrew Oliphant, arrived in New England, America, in 1762; James Oliphant, arrived in Georgia, America, in 1775.
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