Tour Scotland short 4K Spring rain weather travel video clip on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Chapel graveyard at Innerpeffray, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Innerpeffray Chapel was built as the private chapel for the local noble family, the Drummonds. By 1542 it had become a collegiate church. The Protestant Reformation of 1560 should have ended the chapel’s role as a place of worship, but evidence suggests the Drummonds continued their Catholic worship here. It continued to serve as the family mausoleum, and by 1680 part of it was being used as the first public lending library in Scotland. Sir John Drummond 2nd of Innerpeffray, born 1486, died 1560, was Forester of Strathearn, and tutor to David Lord Drummond during his minority, and lived at the Drummond residence at Innerpeffray. John Drummond was son of Sir John Drummond 1st of Innerpeffray, called John Bane, meaning pale John) and his cousin, a daughter of John Drummond of Coldoch. His sister Sibilla Drummmond was a mistress of King James V of Scotland. Their younger sister Isobella Drummond married the Gordon laird of Buckie. He was on good terms with his stepsons, Alexander Gordon, who stayed at Innerpeffray in 1544 and 1548, and the Earl of Huntly. He was a supporter of the Catholic and French interest in Scotland. He attended the privy council meeting at St Andrews in Fife on 19 December 1546 where the siege of St Andrews Castle was debated. In 1531 John Drummond was married to Margaret Stewart, Lady Gordon, born 1497, who was his niece via his sister, and the widow of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and an illegitimate daughter of King James IV of Scotland and Margaret Drummond. Margaret Stewart had been brought up at Edinburgh Castle and her household included two African servants. Following their marriage, James V of Scotland made John Drummond Forester of the Royal Forest of Glenartney in Strathearn. They had five daughters; Margaret, married Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone; Jean. married James Chisholm, 3rd of Cromlix; Elizabeth; Agnes, married firstly Hugh Campbell of Loudoun, secondly, Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Earl of Eglinton, thirdly, Patrick Drummond, 3rd Lord Drummond; Isobel, married Matthew Campbell of Loudon. Their daughter Jean Campbell married Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox at Sorn in September 1598. Another daughter, Margaret Campbell, married Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd. On 16 May 1554, Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone put his affairs in the hands of his father in law Lord Erskine, John Drummond of Innerpeffray, and his brothers in law Robert Drummond of Carnock and John Hamilton of Haggs, because he had made poor decisions about his properties in his youth. This transaction was enacted before Mary of Guise and the Privy Council of Scotland in her presence chamber at Stirling Castle. John Drummond died in February 1560 and was buried in the chapel his family built at Innerpeffray. The surname Drummond was first found in Perthshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt, former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland. There is also an early reference to the Clan Drummond in the district of Lennox when Gilbert de Drummyn, who was chaplain to Alwyn, Earl of Levenax, was witness to a charter by that Earl around 1199. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day,
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