Tour Scotland 4K Autumn travel video of the parish church and graveyard on windy ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Clunie, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Clunie is a small settlement located four miles West of Blairgowrie. The current parish church in the village dates from 1840 replacing a previous structure with a new bell tower. Within the grounds stands a Fraser mausoleum with a romanesque doorway thought to be from an earlier 12th or 13th century church that stood on the same site. The church is now linked with those at Kinclaven and Caputh. Four mortsaves, dating from the 1800s, can also be found within the graveyard. Clunie lies on the western shore of the Loch of Clunie. Nearby is a hill site which was used by Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king of Scotland, as a base for hunting in the nearby royal forest of Clunie. English troops occupied the site following their victory at the Battle of Dunbar during the First War of Scottish Independence.
John James Rickard Macleod was born on in Clunie on 6 September 1876. Soon after he was born, his father Robert Macleod, a clergyman, was transferred to Aberdeen, where John attended Aberdeen Grammar School and enrolled in the study of medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He obtained a PhD in medicine in 1898 and then spent a year studying biochemistry at the University of Leipzig, Germany, on a travelling scholarship. After returning to Britain, he became a demonstrator at the London Hospital Medical School, where in 1902 he was appointed lecturer in biochemistry. In the same year, he was awarded a doctorate in public health from Cambridge University. In 1903, Macleod emigrated to the United States and became a lecturer in physiology at the Western Reserve University, today's Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained for 15 years. During World War I, he performed various wartime duties and served as a physiology lecturer for part of the 1916 winter semester at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Macleod returned to Scotland in 1928 to become Regius Professor of Physiology at Aberdeen University. He was married to Mary W. McWalter, but they never had children. He died in 1935 in Aberdeen after several years of suffering from arthritis.
The Clunie Kirk session was the court of the parish. The session was made up of the minister and the land owners and business men of the parish, chosen to serve on the session. The Kirk session dealt with moral issues, minor criminal cases, matters of the poor and education, matters of discipline, and the general concerns of the parish. Kirk session records may also mention births, marriages, and deaths.
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. 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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