Tour Scotland 4K travel video of a Winter road trip drive, with Scottish music, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the parish church in Strathmiglo in Fife. This church was built in 1787 at the top of Kirk Wynd near the edge of the village. It is at the west of the three separate graveyards relating to the present and earlier churches. It is on raised ground, enclosed by a rubble boundary wall which encloses the graveyards to the east and north of the church. Strathmiglo is sometimes thought to have belonged to the Mormaers of Fife in early times. Before 1350 it had become the centre of the shire of Strathmigloshire. It became a burgh of barony in the 16th century, by which time it belonged to the Scotts of Balwearie. Prior to the Reformation it was the site of a Collegiate church. Johnny Cash was of Scottish descent and his clan originated around the 12th century in the Strathmiglo area of Fife. The connection was traced back to when the niece of King Malcolm IV, born 1153, died 1165, who was named Cash or Cashel, married the Earl of Fife. The first American Cash connection came in 1612 when mariner William Cash sailed from Scotland to Salem, Massachusetts, America, with a boatload of pilgrims.
The many generations and branches of the Cash family can all place the origins of their surname with the ancient Anglo Saxon culture. Their name reveals that an early member worked as a maker of boxes or chests. The surname Cash is derived from the Old French word casse, which means case. Thus, Cash is a metonymic type of occupational surname; it is derived from the principal object associated with the occupation, which in this case was the product produced. Over the years, many spelling variations of the name Cash were recorded, including Cash, Cass, Cashe and others.
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