Summer Parish Church And Graveyard With Music On History Visit To Port of Menteith Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Summer travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Parish Church and graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Port of Menteith Scottish Gaelic: Port Loch Innis Mo Cholmaig, a village and civil parish in the Stirling district of Scotland, the only significant settlement on the Lake of Menteith, Port of Menteith was established as a burgh of barony, then named simply Port, Scottish Gaelic: Am Port, in 1457 by King James III of Scotland. It lies in the historic county and Registration County of Perthshire. Port of Menteith Church was built between 1876 and 1878 on the site of a previous church, dating from 1771. The church is historically significant as it was designed by renowned and prolific Glasgow architect John Honeyman, who later became a partner in Honeyman and Keppie, the practice where Charles Rennie Mackintosh initially made his name. John Honeyman was born at 21 Carlton Place, Glasgow, on 11 August 1831, the third son of John Honeyman JP and Isabella Smith. Honeyman was educated at home and then at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh from 1841 to 1846. He then he studied at Glasgow University with the intention of entering the Church. He decided against becoming a minister and spent a year in a an accountant's office in London, England. After his return to Glasgow he was apprenticed to the minor Glasgow architect Alexander Munro. Honeyman was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1874. He designed three schools for The School Board of Glasgow: Rockvilla Street School, Tureen Street School and Henderson Street School. After falling into financial difficulties by 1888, 26 year old John Keppie refinanced and effectively re-founded Honeyman's practice as Honeyman and Keppie. Honeyman married Rothesia Chalmers Ann Hutchison in Partick on 3 June 1863. She died less than a year later after giving birth to John Rothes Charles Honeyman. He married a second time, to Falconer Margaret Kemp. The ceremony took place in London. They had two sons: William Frederick Colquhoun, born 1868, died 1885 and George Michael Allan, born 1872, died 1888. Falconer died in 1881, and he married for a third time, to Sarah Anne Horne, three years later. They had a son, Herbert Lewis Honeyman, in 1885. Earlier that year, William died at sea, and George died somewhere abroad in 1888. Honeyman died of pneumonia on 8 January 1914, aged 82. He was buried with his first two wives at Glasgow Necropolis in an unmarked grave at the base of the rockface in the Upsilon section of the cemetery, between two monuments to the Tennent family, facing the Wellpark Brewery. 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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