Tour Scotland wee 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of photographs from ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the graveyard in Forfar, Scottish Gaelic: Baile Fharfair in Angus, Britain, United Kingdom. The town of Forfar is located in Strathmore and is situated just off the main A90 road between Perth and Aberdeen, with Dundee, the nearest city, being 13 miles away. Forfar dates back to the temporary Roman occupation of the area, and was subsequently held by the Picts and the Kingdom of Scotland. During the Scottish Wars of Independence, Forfar was occupied by English forces before being recaptured by the Scots and presented to Robert the Bruce. Forfar has been both a traditional market town and a major manufacturing centre for linen and jute. Bon Scott of AC/DC was born on 9 July 1946 in Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir for a short time from 1947 until 1950 when his family emigrated to Australia, where the family lived in the suburb of Sunshine for four years before moving to Freemantle, Western Australia. David Ireland was born in Forfar on May 9, 1832. He was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Commanding the 137th New York Volunteer Infantry, he played a key defensive role on Culp's Hill in the Battle of Gettysburg. Ireland fell ill with dysentery, dying on September 10, 1864. Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn, born February 1882, was educated at Forfar Academy. He was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University in New Jersey, America, for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. He also worked on group theory and matrix algebra. He died on 9 October 1948. James Simpson Fleming was born in Forfar in 1828. He was a Scottish lawyer and banker. From 1858 to 1871 he was a partner in the legal firm of McGrigor, Stevenson & Fleming. In the 1870s he was responsible for introducing the Royal Bank of Scotland to London, England. He retired to Edinburgh in 1892 and died at home 16 Grosvenor Crescent, on 8 July 1899.. David Don was born on 21 December 1799 at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland to Caroline Clementina Stuart, and her husband George Don of Forfar. His older brother was George Don, also a botanist. His father was a curator at the Royal Botanic Garden, Leith Walk, Edinburgh. Don was Professor of Botany at King's College London from 1836 to 1841, and librarian at the Linnean Society of London, England, from 1822 to 1841. He died on 8 December 1841. Alison " Eilley " Oram Bowers was born in Forfar on September 6, 1826. She was a Scottish American woman who was, in her time, one of the richest women in the United States, and owner of the Bowers Mansion, one of the largest houses in the western United States. A farmer's daughter, Bowers married as a teenager, and her husband converted to Mormonism before the couple immigrated to the United States. After briefly living in Nauvoo, Illinois, she became an early Nevada pioneer, farmer and miner, and was made a millionaire by the Comstock Lode mining boom. Married and divorced two times, she married a third time and became a mother of three children but outlived them all. She died on October 27, 1903. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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