Loch Dochfour And River Ness With Music On History Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Loch Dochfour, and the River Ness on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Scottish Highlands. Loch Dochfour is a minor loch in the Great Glen in Inverness-shire. It is the last loch in the Great Glen north eastwards, and might today be considered simply the lower end of Loch Ness. From the foot of Loch Dochfour the River Ness and the Caledonian Canal emerge heading northwest to Inverness, which stands some five miles distant. Adamnan wrote that Saint Columba encountered and calmed a fearsome beast in the waters of the River Ness in AD 565, which is the origin of the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. Ness was first used as a surname by descendants of the Pictish people of ancient Scotland. The surname Ness was first found in Fife. The ancestors of the Ness family lived in any of a number of places called Ness, in Scotland and England. spelling variations of Ness has appeared Ness, Nesse, Nessan, Neeson and others. Janet Ness, aged 39, a servant, arrived in South Australia in 1859 aboard the ship James Jardine; Eliza Ness, born 1820, aged 38, a British settler travelled from Gravesend aboard the ship Indiana arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 28th November 1858; Ann Ness who settled in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1784; Mathias Ness and his wife Maria Barbara settled in Philadelphia, America, with their six sons in 1731. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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