Tour Scotland 4K Spring Easter Holiday Weekend travel video, with Scottish music, of Fingask Castle and garden, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. The Bruce family owned the lands of Rait, including Fingask, from the 15th century. The castle itself is dated 1592, and was built around a 12th century structure. In 1672, Sir Patrick Threipland, 1st Baronet, purchased the estate, which was erected into a barony the same year. Sir Patrick renovated the building and laid out the gardens. He died a prisoner at Stirling Castle for adherence to the ousted King James VII, in 1689. His son David, 2nd Baronet, joined the Jacobite rising of 1715, and fought against the government at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. He was attainted when the rising failed, and his forfeited estates were purchased by the York Buildings Company, a waterworks company in England which had begun to specialise in forfeited land. Fingask Castle was badly damaged in 1745 by government troops, as the Threiplands once more supported the Jacobites in the second Jacobite rising. and in 1783, it was bought back by the Threiplands, in the person of Dr. Stuart Threipland, physician. Between 1828 and 1840 additions were made to the south and west of the castle. Sir Patrick Threipland, 4th Baronet, born 1762, died 1837, laid out the park, and his son planted the topiary gardens and installed statuary. The castle passed out of the Threipland family again in 1917, when it was bought by whisky merchant Sir John Henderson Stewart, 1st Baronet. The estate was bought by H. B. Gilroy of Ballumbie in 1925, who removed many of the 19th century additions, and since 1969 has once more been the home of the Threipland family. The surname Threipland was first found in Peebles, where they held a family seat from very ancient times at the Vale of Threipland in the parish of Kilbucho. Spelling variations of this family name include: Thriepland, Threipland, Thripland, Threepland, Treplan and many more. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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