Tour Scotland 4K short Spring travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Robert Wallace, Baker, gravestone in the Cathedral ruins graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to St Andrews, Fife. Wallace is a Scottish surname derived from the Anglo Norman French waleis, which is in turn derived from a cognate of the Old English wylisc, pronounced " wullish " meaning " foreigner " or " Welshman." The original surname may have denoted someone from the former Kingdom of Strathclyde who spoke Cumbric, a close relative of the Welsh language, or possibly an incomer from Wales, or the Welsh Marches. The Kingdom of Strathclyde was originally a part of the Hen Ogledd, its people speaking a Brythonic language distinct from Scottish Gaelic and the English derived from Lothian. In modern times, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the surname has been used as an Americanization of numerous Ashkenazic Jewish surnames. John Wallace, a Scottish convict from Aberdeen, who was transported aboard the " Andromeda " on October 16, 1826, settling in Van Diemen's Land, Australia. John Howard Wallace, aged 23, a mechanic, arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship " Aurora " in 1840. William Wallace, aged 39, a farmer, arrived in Quebec aboard the ship " Atlas " in 1815. Sarah Wallace, aged 22, a servant, arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1833 aboard the ship " Branches " from London, England. Eleanor, Elizabeth, George, Jane, William, and Mary Wallace all settled in Charleston, South Carolina, America, in 1768. Wallace has been spelled Wallace, Wallis, Wallys, Walace, Uallas (Gaelic) and others.
The Clan Wallace is a Lowlands Scottish Clan. The most famous member of the clan was the Scottish patriot William Wallace of the late 13th and early 14th centuries. During the Wars of Scottish Independence William Wallace and Andrew de Moray began a successful military guerrilla campaign against the English. In 1297 they won a great and stunning victory over the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, after which Wallace was knighted as Guardian of Scotland. Wallace was also in command at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, but there he was defeated by the superiority of the English numbers. Wallace was eventually captured at Robroyston near Glasgow and delivered to Edward Longshanks of England by a senior Scottish law officer, Sir John Mentieth. Wallace was subjected to a show trial, in which he was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Smithfield, London in 1305.
The date for astronomical spring is Sunday 20th March 2022, ending on Tuesday 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, spring will start on Tuesday 1st March. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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