1793 Handloom Weavers Cottages With Music On History Visit To Glamis Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of a terrace of handloom weavers cottages built in 1793, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the village of Glamis in Angus Region. Glamis village was made a Burgh of Barony by King James IV in 1491 and granted the right to hold a fair annually on 17 November, the feast day of Saint Fergus. As a result it increasingly became a focal point for the surrounding area. Much of the village was built by John, the 9th Earl of Strathmore, in the late 1700s, in part to rehouse estate workers whose cottages had been removed during his redevelopment of Glamis Castle and its surrounding estate. John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, born 17 July 1737, died 7 March 1776, born John Lyon, was a Scottish nobleman and peer. He was the 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and one of the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II. John was the son of Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his wife, the former Jean Nicholson. In 1760 he took the Grand Tour of Europe, accompanied for the first several months by his college classmate Thomas Pitt, later the Baron Camelford. From March 1761 until he returned to England in June 1763 he had an affair with Costanza Scotti, Contessa Sanvitale. On 24 February 1767, at St George's Hanover Square Church he married the heiress Mary Eleanor Bowes, who was already possessed of her late father's estates such as Gibside. As per the stipulations of the will of the father of the bride, he assumed his wife's name of Bowes, a fairly common arrangement among the propertied classes that required an Act of Parliament. The two had five children: Lady Maria Jane Lyon , born 21 April 1768, died 22 April 1806; married Barrington Price, a Colonel of the British Army, on 11 May 1789. Had issue. John Lyon-Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, born 14 April 1769, died 3 July 1820; Lady Anna Maria Lyon, born 3 June 1770, died 29 March 1832, married Henry James Jessup and had issue. Hon. George Bowes-Lyon, born 17 November 1771, died 26 December 1806; married Mary Thornhill. Thomas Bowes-Lyon, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne , born 3 May 1773, died 27 August 1846. From 1 October 1767 and until his death, he sat as a Scottish Representative peer in the House of Lords. On 7 March 1776, Lord Strathmore died of tuberculosis whilst at sea on his way to Portugal and was succeeded in turn by his sons, John and Thomas. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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