Tour Scotland travel video of a Summer road trip drive, with Scottish music, to and through Ceres, the onwards on the B939 road on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to St Andrews, Fife. The B939 road crosses the Ceres Burn twice to reach Pitscottie, where it is crossed by the B940 road. The road now climbs out of the valley to cross a ridge and descend into another valley. This section of road is remarkably straight and so passes to the South of Strathkinness rather than detouring north to pass through the village. Eventually the road reaches the suburbs of St Andrews. It runs along Buchanan Gardens and reaches a mini roundabout in the centre of town where we then travel through the West Port and along South Street. The name Ceres signifies " place to the west " from the Scottish 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.
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