Tour Scotland 4K late Summr early Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, North on the A928 route, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kirriemuir in Angus, Britain, United Kingdom. The history of Kirriemuir reaches back to earliest recorded times, when it seems to have been a major ecclesiastical centre. Later it was identified with witchcraft, and some older houses still feature a witches stane to ward off evil. In the 19th century, it was an important centre of the jute trade. Sir James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir on 9 May 1860, to a conservative Calvinist family. His father David Barrie was a modestly successful weaver. His mother Margaret Ogilvy assumed her deceased mother's household responsibilities at the age of eight. Barrie was the ninth child of ten, two of whom died before he was born, all of whom were schooled in at least the three Rs in preparation for possible professional careers. At the age of 8, Barrie was sent to the Glasgow Academy. When he was 10, he returned home and continued his education at the Forfar Academy. At 14, he left home for Dumfries Academy. Barrie enrolled at the University of Edinburgh where he wrote drama reviews for the Edinburgh Evening Courant. He graduated on 21 April 1882. He then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, first included in Barrie's adult novel The Little White Bird, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a " fairy play " about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Barrie died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Manchester Street, Marylebone, London, England, on 19 June 1937. He was buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings. . Bon Scott of AC/DC was born in nearby Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir for a short time from 1947 until 1950 when his family emigrated to Australia, where the family lived in the suburb of Sunshine for four years before moving to Freemantle, Western Australia. 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. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. According to the meteorological calendar, the first day of Autumn or Fall always falls on September 1. If you follow the astrological calendar, however, Autumn or Fall begins on Saturday, September 23.
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