Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish Music, of the Leslie Dewing Blackburn memorial stained glass window on ancestrry, genealogy, family history visit to St John's Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, Britain, United Kingdom. In Loving Memory of Leslie Dewing Blackburn, Captain in 2nd Battalion, Cameronians, Scot tish Rifles, and youngest son of the late Robert Blackburn Esq. Advocate. Died October 23rd 1899 from wounds received at Tuli, South Africa while serving with the Rhodesian Regiment against the Boers. Aged 34. The surname Blackburn was first found in Lancashire at Blackburn, a parish, and the head of a union, in the Lower division of the hundred of Blackburn. This place takes its name from a small rivulet near the town, which, from the turbid state of the water, was anciently called Blakeburn, or the yellow bourne. A castle is said to have been built here, probably by the Romans, which, after their departure from the island, was occupied successively by the Britons and the Saxons; but there are no vestiges of it, nor can even its site be distinctly ascertained. Blackburn was formerly the capital of a district called Blackburnshire. 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
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