Tour Scotland video of the James Buchanan gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. James died in 1857, leaving £30,000 for " the maintenance and instruction of destitute children ". The resulting Buchanan Institute on Glasgow Green was where generations of poor children from the city's east end learned a trade, such as tailoring, shoemaking or carpentry. Buchanan is a habitational or geographical surname meaning who came from the district of Buchanan in Stirlingshire, a location near Loch Lomond in Scotland. The place name is thought to derive from the Gaelic elements buth, meaning " house " and chanain, meaning " of the canon. "
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