Tour Scotland 4K travel video of the memorial to John Barbour in St Machar's Cathedral on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Britain, United Kingdom. John Barbour born in 1320, died 13th of March 1395, was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots. By 1357 he was Archdeacon of the Kirk of St Machar in Aberdeen. This memorial was created by wood carver, Roland Fraser. The surname Barbour was first found in Northumberland, and Cumberland. Some of the first records of the family were Gilbert le Barber or Barbour and Michael le Barber who were Scots prisoners taken at Dunbar Castle in 1296. Spelling vaiations of the Medieval Scottish surname Barbour include, as Barbour, Barber, Barberton and others. Robert Barbour, a Scottish convict was convicted in Inverary, Scotland for 10 years, and transported aboard the ship Cornwall on 28th February 1851, which sailed to Tasmania; James Barbour, born 1848, aged 26, a Scottish farm servant, from Ayr travelled from Greenock aboard the ship Nelson arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 31st December 1874; Robert Barbour, his wife and three children, settled in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1827; George Barbour landed in Massachusetts, America, in 1635; Thomas Barbour arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts, America, in 1635; Jacob Barbour landed in Maryland, America, in 1672. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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