Road Trip Drive With Music To Buckhaven On Visit To East Coast Of Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive from Leven, through Methil on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Randolph Street in Buckhaven on the East Coast of Fife. I was born at 9 Randolph Street. The name Buckhaven is probably from the Scots terms buck or bukk meaning to gush out, and haven or harbour. Once a thriving weaving village and fishing port, in 1831 it was reported as having the second largest fishing fleet in Scotland with a total of 198 boats. Fishing declined during the 19th century, but in the 1860s Buckhaven developed more into a mining town with the mines now closed. The fishing community of Buckhaven is said to have been largely the descendants of Norsemen who settled there in the 9th century. Centuries later, Buckhaven's fisherfolk bought an Episcopal Church in St Andrews in 1869 and transported it stone by stone to Buckhaven, using fishing boats. When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip James Ireland Craig was born on 24 February 1868 in Buckhaven the son of Captain T M Craig, a pioneer in the development of Borneo, and his wife Agnes. He was educated at Daniel Stewart's College in Edinburgh, where he was school dux for 1885. He then attended Edinburgh University and then Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating MA in 1892. In 1893 he became a Master, teaching mathematics at Eton College then at Winchester College in England, from 1895. In 1896 he moved to Egypt to work for the Egyptian government. In 1897 he married Isabella Wilson who died in 1948. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to cartography. His proposers were George Chrystal, William J MacDonald, John Alison and John Brown Clark. He returned to Britain during the First World War and was based in London at the Ministry of Food. In the aftermath of the war he was creator Food Controller in 1918 for Upper Silesia, now South West Poland. In 1925 he returned to Egypt as Controller General, then, from 1928 to 1934, was Financial Secretary to the Egyptian Census. In 1934, aged already 66, he was made United Kingdom Government Commissioner of Customs. He finally retired from employment in 1947, aged 79. He still spent much of his time in Egypt. He was killed aged 83 in a deliberate fire at the Turf Club in Cairo, set by rioters on 26 January 1952 during the Cairo Fire. Robert Dunsire was born in November 1891 to Thomas and Elizabeth Anderson Dunsire at Buckhaven in Fife. At the outbreak of war in 1914, Robert was a miner at the Fife Coal Company's Rosie Pit, and married to Catherine Pitt. He enlisted in January 1915 joining the 13th Battalion, The Royal Scots, The Lothian Regiment, British Army. It was during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions during the Battle of Loos, on 26 September 1915. He later achieved the rank of corporal. He was killed in action at Mazingarbe in France on 30 January 1916 and is buried there. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Scots Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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