Tour Scotland very short 4K travel video clip of the sight and sounds of a Scottish piper playing bagpipes music by Ruthven Barracks on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Badenoch And Strathspey in the Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. The barracks at Ruthven were completed in 1721. The barracks accommodated 120 troops and 28 horses for dragoons. In August 1745 a unit of 12 British soldiers, commanded by a Sergeant Terrence Molloy of the 6th Regiment of Foot, defended the barracks against 200 Jacobites and lost just one man. The following year Molloy surrendered to a larger force of Jacobites, commanded by John Gordon of Glenbucket. On the day after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, some 3,000 Jacobites retreated to Fort Ruthven but they were sent home by Prince Charles Edward Stuart as their situation was hopeless. The departing Jacobites destroyed the barracks on 17 April 1746.. The remnants remain. The surname Ruthven was first found in Angus, Gaelic: Aonghas, at Ruthven, a parish in the Tayside region of northeastern Scotland, and present day Council Area of Angus, formerly known as Forfar or Forfarshire. This noble Scottish family claims to trace its ancestry to Thor, the Scandinavian, who settled in Scotland in the reign of King David I. It is thought that they held the Barony of Ruthven in Angus about 1050, and then branched into Perthshire. Spelling variations of this family name include: Ruthven, Ruthen, Ruthin, Wruthven, Wruthen, Rutheven, Rotheven, Rothveyn and many more. The Clan Ruthven lands in Perthshire, Scotland take their name from the Scottish Gaelic, Ruadhainn which means Dun uplands. The clan chief's family are of Norse origin. They first settled in East Lothian but by the end of the twelfth century they were in Perthshire. Mary Ruthven was a British Convict who was convicted in Glasgow, Scotland for 7 years, and transported aboard the Asia on 9th March 1847 to Tasmania; George Ruthven, born 1872, aged 15 months, was an infant Scottish settler who travelled from Glasgow aboard the ship Peter Denny arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 3rd September 1873, sadly he died on board the ship. Colin Ruthven arrived in Ontario, Canada, in 1818; John Ruthven arrived in Quebec, Canada, in 1828; Charles Ruthven, aged 31, immigrated to the United States from Paisley, in 1906; Robert Ruthven, aged 32, settled in America from Gorebridge, Scotland, in 1909; Mary Ruthven, aged 21, landed in America, in 1893. The bagpipes have a bag that holds air. The player keeps the bag full of air by blowing into it with a tube or pumping it with a bellows. To make music, the bag is pressed and the air comes out through a kind of flute or chanter. There are usually one or more other tubes coming from the bag that make sounds whenever the bag is squeezed, called drones. Each drone normally plays a different note, and stays on the same note the whole time it is playing, to play a harmony with the chanter. The sounds are made by a single or, more commonly, double reed which vibrates when air is blown over it. Bagpipes have been in continuous use across Europe, and especially in Great Britain, Ireland and North Western Spain. In Bulgaria, the bagpipes are called a Gaida. Although there are not many bagpipes today that existed prior to the 1800s there are a few examples that suggest they have existed since ancient times. A sculpture that dates to 1000 BC shows bagpipes. Other references to the bagpipes exist in written form dating to the 2nd century AD. The Great Highland Bagpipe or Piob Mhor, is an instrument with opposing harsh shrills and graceful tones, meant to be played outdoors, in the open countryside and it is well suited in inspiring Scotsmen, and women, on the field of battle and in the aftermath, mourning the fallen, or celebrating victory. Through history, pipers are remembered for being mortally or seriously wounded the latter whilst continuing to play in the face of adversity. 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
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