Tour Scotland 4K late Summer early Autumn travel video, with Scottish accordion music, of a road trip drive East on the A921 coastal route, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Aberdour in Fife. Aberdour, Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dobhair, is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom, located on the north shore of the Firth of Forth. Nicholas Beatson Bell was born 19 June 1867 in Aberdour, Scotland, the son of Andrew Beatson Bell, who was Sheriff-Substitute of Fife. He studied at Edinburgh Academy and Balliol College, Oxford, England. He served in the Indian Civil Service. On 7 December 1914 he was made a member of the Council of the Governor of Bengal, India. In 1918 he was made Chief Commissioner of Assam, and became the first Governor of Assam on 3 January 1921. He left the Civil Service to do missionary work in a small Bengal village. In 1921, Beatson-Bell was ordained a deacon by the bishop of Calcutta, and in 1922 he was ordained priest at York in 1920 by Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang. He returned home to be curate of Whitby, and then became a country vicar. married Jeannie Arbuthnott, daughter of John Campbell Arbuthnott CIE of the Colonial Civil Service and Jeannie Sinclair Hamilton, in Shillong on 21 November 1911. Together they had two daughters. He was the vicar of Cornish Hall End in Braintree, Essex, where he died from a heart attack at the age of 68. The village's winding High Street of Aberdour lies a little inland from the coast. Narrow lanes run off it, providing access to the more hidden parts of the village and the shoreline itself. The village nestles between the bigger coastal towns of Burntisland to the east and Dalgety Bay to the west. 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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