Strathspey With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To North East Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4Kaerial travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music, of Strathspey, Scottish Gaelic: Srath Spè, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the North East Scottish Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. The River Spey is the eighth longest river in the United Kingdom, as well as the second longest and fastest flowing river in Scotland. The Speyside Way, a long distance walking footpath, follows the river through the County of Moray.. The Spey was, in the early period of Scottish history, the boundary between the province of Moray and the Scotia of that time. Speyside is one of the main centres of the Scotch whisky industry, with a high concentration of single malt whisky distilleries in the region, including the Glenfiddich and Balvenie distilleries. The region is a natural for whisky distillers because of three benefits: it is close to barley farms, contains the River Spey and is close to the port of Garmouth. Captain John Robert Grant in 1729 in Strathpey and fought in the American Revolution and then became an American Loyalist and the first British settler of Summerville, Nova Scotia, Canada. John Grant died in Summerville in 1790 at the age of 61. John Roy Stewart or Stuart or Stiuart, Gaelic: Iain Ruadh Stiùbhart, born 1700, was the son of Donald, a farmer in Strathspey, grandson of John, the last of the Barons of Kincardine. His father gave him a good education and procured him a commission in a Scottish regiment which at that time was serving in Flanders. In the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart he was military commander at Gladsmuir, Clifton, Falkirk and Culloden. He was a distinguished officer in the Jacobite Army during the rising of 1745 and a war poet in both Gaelic and in English. He died in 1752. 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. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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