Tour Scotland Spring travel video, with Scottish accordion music, of a road trip drive East on the A914 road then on the B939 road through Craigrothie and onwards on ancestry visit to Ceres, Fife. Craigrothie village was once a coaching stop on the route to Cupar and horses were changed here at the Change Inn. The name Ceres signifies " place to the west " from the Gaelic Siar meaning " west ", probably in relation to St Andrews. Robert Fleming Gourlay was born March 22, 1778 in Craigrothie in the Parish of Ceres. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of St. Andrews and studied agriculture at the University of Edinburgh. In 1817, his wife inherited some land in the Niagara District of Upper Canada and he travelled there via New York City, expecting to return by the Fall. He returned to England and published A General Introduction to a Statistical Account of Upper Canada in 1822. In 1856, he returned to his property in Canada and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Oxford in Canada West. He returned to Edinburgh, Scotland, and died there in 1863.
Ceres Church is within the Church of Scotland Presbytery of St Andrews. In 1983, the parish of Ceres was linked, and later united, with the neighbouring parish of Springfield. This united parish was further united with Kemback in 2005, although the three church buildings are retained. One serving past minister of Ceres has been Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: the Reverend Thomas Buchanan in 1588. The village is dominated by the Parish Church. It has what is possibly the shortest High Street in Scotland, just a few houses on each side. The church was built in 1806 to a design by Alexander Leslie, on the site of a much earlier building.
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