Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the drawing room on ancestry visit to Brodie Castle near Forres in Moray The original Z-plan castle was built in 1567 by Clan Brodie but was destroyed by fire in 1645 by Lewis Gordon of Clan Gordon, the 3rd Marquis of Huntly. In 1824, architect William Burn was commissioned to convert it into a large mansion house in the Scots Baronial style, but these additions were never completed and were later remodelled by James Wylson in 1845. The night that Brodie of Brodie died on 20 September 1889 hundreds of miles away in Switzerland, the sounds of moaning and loud moving noises could be heard coming from his locked office in the castle. A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large 16th to early 18th century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could " withdraw " for more privacy.
Neil Brodie, a Scottish convict from Aberdeen, was transported aboard the ship America on April 4, 1829, settling in New South Wales, Australia; James Brodie landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1840; Robert Brodie with wife and six children arrived in New York, America, in 1775; Andrew Brodie arrived in Philadelphia, America, in 1811; William Brodie arrived in New York, America, in 1819; James Brodie landed in New York, America, in 1821. Brodie name has been written as Brodie, Brody, Brodey, Brodye, Broadie, Broffee, Broffy, Brophie, Brophey, Brothie, Brophy, Brodley, Brothy and many more.
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