Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video, with Scottish music, of a sunny and very cold, road trip drive on a single track road passed the Free Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Brunton in North Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Weather forecast today was for temperatures to remain below freezing but will be mostly dry with some snow and ice and widespread hard overnight frosts where skies are clear. The old farmtoun village of Brunton was a cottage weaving village in the 18th and 19th centuries, Brunton is now an attractive commuter settlement. The village once had a meal mill. The root of the name is believed to be the Scots burn, meaning stream, or brunt plus toun. Therefore, meaning Farm on a burn, or, alternatively, though less likely, farm on burned land, that is land cleared by burning for cultivation. Never more than a small hamlet, the New Statistical Account of 1838 noted the population as ninety one and the occupants as mainly weavers and other handicrafts tradesmen By 1882 there was listed a post office and a Free Church school and occupations included were a boot and shoemaker, grocer, joiner and wright, seedsman, carrier and a cart man. The surname Brunton first appears on record in England towards the end of the 13th Century. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Adam de Brunton, which was dated 1292, in Shropshire, England, during the reign of King Edward 1. Walter of Burntoun held part of Luffness, Scotland, in the reign of King Robert 111, and a John Brountoun was tenant of Aliebank, Selkirkshire in 1558. William Brunton, born 1771, died 1851, was an engineer and inventor, employed in Boulton and Watt's, Soho. George Brunton, born 1799, died 1836, was a Scottish lawyer and miscellaneous writer was born in Edinburgh. Remains of the former Free Church of Creich and Flisk formed under Dr J W Taylor. Records suggest a manse and church were built in 1843 and that the congregation was united with Creich Parish Church in 1929. This church stands on isolated high ground overlooking the road south of the hamlet of Brunton, with a woodland strip to the north. It was built in 1843 as a Free church. The church is now roofless and is overgrown with vegetation. The Free Church was formed by Evangelicals who broke from the Church of Scotland in 1843 in protest against what they regarded as the state's encroachment on the spiritual independence of the Church. The Disruption of 1843 was a bitter, nationwide division which split the established Church of Scotland. It was larger than the previous historical secessions of 1733 or 1761. The evangelical element had been demanding the purification of the Church, and it attacked the patronage system, which allowed rich landowners to select the local ministers. Robert Candlish was influential perhaps second only to Thomas Chalmers in bringing about the Disruption. This road is only wide enough for one vehicle. It has special passing places. If you see a vehicle coming towards you, or the driver behind wants to overtake, try to pull into a passing place on your left, or wait opposite a passing place on your right. Give way to vehicles coming uphill whenever you can. If necessary, reverse until you reach a passing place to let the other vehicle pass. 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. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip
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