1610 Nicol Moncrief Marriage Lintel With Music On History Visit To Falkland Village Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video, with Scottish music, of the Nicol Moncrief, a servant of King James VI, marriage inscribed stone lintel at Moncrief House on the High Street on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the village of Falkland, Fife. Moncrief House was probably built in 1610 for Nicol Moncrief, a servant of King James VI who praises and thanks his master in an inscription on the front of the building. The plaque reads: " AL PRAISE TO GOD AND THANKIS TO THE MOST EXCELLENT MONARCH OF GREAT BRITAINE OF WHOSE PRINCELIE LIBERALITIE THIS IS MY PORTIVN. DEO LAVS. ESTO FIDVS. ADEST MERCES. NICOLL MONCRIEFF. 1610. " One of the first scenes for Outlander was filmed in the picturesque town of Falkland, which substituted for 1940s Inverness. The surname Moncrieff was first found in Perthshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt, former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland, where William de Moncrefe and John de Moncref, rendered homage to King Edward I of England during the latter's brief conquest of Scotland in 1296. In that same year Thomas de Mouncref was taken as a Scots prisoner of war at Dunbar Castle. The estate of Easter Moncreiffe was gifted to a younger son of the family in 1312. The Scottish name Moncrieff is a habitational name, taken on from Moncreiffe Hill near the Royal Burgh of Perth. The surname itself came from the name of the lands granted to Sir Matthew de Muncrefe by King Alexander II in 1248. Spelling variations of this Clan and family name include: Moncreiffe, Moncrieffe, Moncreif, Moncreiff, Moncreyfe and many more. A marriage lintel, also known as nuptial, marriage or lintel stone, is a carved inscription above the doorway of a house owned by a newly married couple. They are a feature of the east coast of Scotland and date primarily from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Lintels serve as a record of a marriage and the joining together of two families, who were often aristocratic or monied. Lintels could be added to a building which was built specifically for the married couple, or were carved into a pre-existing lintel. They were always set over the main entrance and some also appear inside houses, above the most visible fireplace. Wherever they were placed, they were meant to be seen. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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