Tour Scotland late Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish fiddle music, through Dundee on a rainy and windy, ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Broughty Ferry, Scottish Gaelic: Bruach Tatha; Scots: Brochtie on the East Coast of Tayside. Formerly a prosperous fishing and whaling village, in the 19th century Broughty Ferry became a haven for wealthy jute barons, who built their luxury villas in the suburb. As a result, Broughty Ferry was referred to at the time as the " richest square mile in Europe. ". The area was a separate burgh from 1864 until 1913, when it was incorporated into Dundee. Historically it is within the County of Angus.
Thomas Smith, born in Broughty Ferry on 6 December 1752. He was a Scottish businessman and early lighthouse engineer. He was appointed as the first Chief Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board in 1786. Smith died at home in 2 Baxter's Place in Leith, Edinburgh, on 21 June 1815, aged 62.
Janet Lindsay Greig was born 8 August 1874 in Broughty Ferry, to Jane (née Stocks) and Robert Greig, the second of seven children. She was educated at the High School of Dundee until the family migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1889, where she then attended Brunswick Ladies College. Her father encouraged his children to pursue tertiary education, and in 1891 both she and her sister Jane enrolled at the medical school of the University of Melbourne. She graduated from the University , with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery with honours in 1895. For many years, Greig ran a private practice in Fitzroy, Victoria and worked as a consultant from Collins Street, Melbourne. She was one of the founding members of the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children and was an honorary medical staff member there for 54 years. When a new pathology wing was constructed at the hospital in 1937, it was named after Greig. In 1940 she was admitted to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and elected President of the Victorian Medical Women's Society. Greig retired in 1947 and focused on her research of migraines. She died in 1950 while visiting London, England, on a research trip.
Gordon Webster He was born on 28 October 1841 at Panmurefield at Broughty Ferry near Dundee, the only son of Gordon Webster, a bleacher, and his wife, Elizabeth Simpson. He was educated at the High School of Dundee and originally trained as an engineer and was apprenticed at Low's Foundry in Monifieth. He then studied at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1867 before training as a Free Church of Scotland minister at New College, Edinburgh. He was ordained by the Free Church of Scotland in Girvan in 1872. In December 1887 he moved to St Andrew's Church in Christchurch, New Zealand. The church is an interesting example of prefabricated construction, over clad in timber and is a listed building. He served as Moderator in 1898 and retired in 1900. He returned to Scotland and had unsuccessful surgery on an internal complaint in May 1903 and died at 22 Corrennie Gardens in Morningside, Edinburgh on 18 July 1903. He is buried in Doune Cemetery in Girvan. A memorial service was held in St Andrews Church in Christchurch on 26 July led by the Rev Mr Erwin.
David Blair or Davy Blair was born in Broughty Ferry on 11 November 1874. He was was a British merchant seaman with the White Star Line, which had reassigned him from the RMS Titanic just before its maiden voyage. Due to his hasty departure, he accidentally kept a key to a storage locker believed to contain the binoculars intended for use by the crow's nest lookout. The absence of any binoculars within the crow's nest is believed to be one of the main contributory factors in the Titanic’s ultimate demise. Blair was First Officer on the SS Majestic in 1913 when a coaler jumped overboard; the night before, a fellow crew member had succeeded in drowning himself. While a lifeboat was organized, Blair jumped into the ocean waters and swam toward the man, who was now swimming for the ship. Though the boat reached the man first, Blair was commended for his action in The New York Times and received money from the passengers and a medal from the Royal Humane Society. Blair, and Charles Lightoller, who survived the Titanic disaster, served aboard the RMS Oceanic when it ran aground in 1914. As the navigator, Blair received the blame for the grounding at the resulting enquiry. Blair died on 10 January 1955 in Hendon, Middlesex, England.
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