Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the exterior and interior of Kinloch Castle on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Island of Rum one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, Britain, United Kingdom. Kinloch Castle, Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Cheann Locha, is a late Victorian mansion which was built as a private residence for Sir George Bullough, a textile tycoon from Lancashire, England, whose father bought Rùm as his summer residence and shooting estate. Construction began in 1897, and was completed in 1900. Rùm was owned by Alexander Maclean of Coll in the early 19th century. At that time, during the Napoleonic Wars, kelp from the Scottish islands was a valuable commodity, being used to produce soda ash for use in explosives. After the war, prices collapsed and Maclean was forced to lease the island to a relative, Lachlan Maclean, for sheep farming. As a result, the entire population, which counted 443 people in 1795, were cleared from the island by 1828, only for new tenants to be brought in from Skye and Muck to service the sheep farm. The surname Bullough was first found in Roxburghshire where one of the earliest records of the name was Adam Bulloc who witnessed an agreement the abbot and the monks of Newbattle in 1250. A few years later, Richard Bullock was slain at the Battle of Cambok in 1278. The Bullough surname is derived from the Middle English word " bullok, " from the Old English " bulluc, " which refer to a " young bull. " As a name, it most likely evolved from a nickname for an exuberant young man, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of bullocks. The name was probably introduced from England, and in the fourteenth century there was a family of sailors of the name trading between English and Scottish ports. Spelling variations of this family name include: Bullock, Bullocke, Bulloch, Bullok, Bulloc and others. Joseph Bullough, was a British settler who travelled from Gravesend aboard the ship Kingston arriving in Auckland, New Zealand on 29th December 1858. Kinloch could hardly be less baronial in form, but a turreted central tower and corner drum towers relieve the horizontal rhythm of the long two storey ranges, which are set four square about a central court. And the temptation to crenellate every wall head proved irresistable: even the ground floor skirting of the arcaded veranda serrated. 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.
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