Autumn Road Trip Drive With Music On Visit To Rural South Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, on country roads road on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to rural South Fife. The earliest record of Italians in Fife is that for Antonio Staffiere, a confectioner in the 1881 census for Dunfermline. In the 1890s other Italians were being recorded at other locations such as Auchterderran, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans, Markinch, Leven and Buckhaven. By the 1920s, many Italian immigrants had created successful businesses. Italians from the region of Tuscany settled in large numbers in Glasgow and the west of Scotland with surnames such as Capanni, Giuliani, Gonnella, Marchi, Bertolini, Biagioni, Bechelli and Brucciani. Italians from the region of Lazio settled in Edinburgh and the Lothians with surnames such as Valente, Caira, Magliocco, Di Ducca, D’Inverno, Divito, Taddei, Fusco and Mancini. Italians from the region of Emilia-Romagna settled in the north east of Scotland with surnames such as Donati, Canale, Cura and Bertorelli. The 1871 census for Scotland recorded 268 Italians and by the 1911 census this figure had grown to 4,594. When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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