Ashintully Standing Stone On History Visit To The Highlands Of Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Summer travel video clip of the Ashintully standing stone on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Highlands of Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. The name Ashintully is an anglicised spelling of the Gaelic Eas an Tulaich and means cascade of the hillock. The Spalding family were the Feudal Barons of Ashintully. The Spalding Barons were chiefs of the Spalding Clan and followers of the Duke of Atholl, the Chief of the Murray Clan. The Spaldings of Ashintully and their cadet branches were Jacobites, or followers of the House of Stuart. The surname Spalding was first found in Lincolnshire, England. The name is recorded in Scotland as early as 1294, when John de Spaldyn, Magister or Master witnessed a grant of lands in Aberdeen. Another Spalding is mentioned as a canon of Elgin Cathedral around 1300. He is probably John de Spauyding, who petitioned Edward I of England in 1304 for timber to build his church at Duffus. The Spaldings came to prominence in 1318 at the siege of Berwick by Robert the Bruce. The story goes that Peter de Spalding, a burgess of Berwick, hated the English governor, and aided the besiegers in taking the town. He was rewarded by Bruce in May 1319 with the lands of Ballourthye and Pitmachie in Angus. He was also granted the keepership of the royal forest of Kylgerry. In 1587 the Spaldings appear in an act of the Parliament of Scotland as a clan for whom their chief, chieftain or captain, would be held responsible. The principal family were the Spaldings of Ashintully. During the early 18th century, the Spalding family followed the Jacobite cause, lost its lands, and dispersed. Over the years, offshoots of the original Spaldings of Berwick migrated to Aberdeen, Perthshire, Edinburgh, Germany, Sweden, Jamaica, Liverpool, Virginia and Georgia in America. Spelling variations of this family name include: Spaulding, Spalding, Spaldene and others. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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