Tour Scotland 4K early Autumn travel video of the Bruce Fountain on ancestry, genealogy, family history and Outlander visit to the village of Falkland, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. One of the first scenes for Outlander was filmed in the picturesque town of Falkland, which substituted for 1940s Inverness. The Bruce Fountain is where Claire comes across the ghost of Jamie. Standing in the middle of the High Street it is unmissable .The fountain was commissioned as a memorial to Onesiphorus Tyndall Bruce. Alexander Roos, Architect, designed the fountain in 1853 and it was unveiled in 1856. It is octagonal in shape with three pink lion statues holding crests at the corners. Onesiphorus was born in 1790 in Bristol, England, where his family had been merchants, slave traders and bankers. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he became an impecunious barrister, with debts amounting to £50,000. In 1828 he married Margaret Steuart Hamilton Bruce, the illegitimate daughter of Lt Colonel Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce by an Indian lady. Her father had died when she was 8 years old, and she was adopted by her uncle, John Hamilton Bruce, Professor of Logic at the University of Edinburgh and proprietor of Falkland. On her uncle's death in 1826, Margaret inherited, becoming proprietor of Falkland, Nuthill and Myres, very wealthy, and Hereditary Keeper of Falkland Palace. Her uncle had disapproved of Onesiphorus because of his large debts, but when Margaret married him two years after her uncle's death she paid off his debts and made him an allowance. Onesiphorus took her surname in addition to his own. 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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