Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the village of Ladybank in Fife, Britain, Uniited Kingdom. The village became a burgh in 1878, and became an industrial centre, with linen weaving, coal mining, and malting being the principal industries. Robert Boucher Junior. was born in Ladybank, on the 7th of May, 1873 to Robert Boucher Senior, Inspector of Poor, and Joanna Burns, who had married in Ladybank on the 28th of October, 1864. Robert Junior, had seven brothers and one sister, he being fifth eldest of the nine children born between 1865 and 1884. His father, Robert Boucher Senior, had been born in Collessie on the 20th of January, 1844 to William Boucher and Isabella Wishart who had married in Cults on the 6th of April, 1838. Robert’s mother, Joanna Burns, had been born in Ceres in 1843 to David Burns and Elizabeth Elder who had married in Kemback on the 25th of November, 1838. By 1891, Robert Junior. was practising as a Pupil Teacher in Collessie, and thereafter had teaching experience in various parts of the East Neuk. However, in Wormit, Forgan, during this period, the 22 year old Robert first met, and then married, in 1895 in Dundee, a 37 year old widow Mrs Helen Blake Halliday (Jones) Horsburgh, born Monifieth in 1858. By 1901 Robert Junior. had obtained an Assistant Teachership in Wemyss, and, by that time, had a family comprising, Katherine, born in Wormit by Helen’s previous marriage to Charles Horsburgh], Frederick born in Dundee, and Roberta born in Wemyss. The publication of his 312 page book in 1899, ‘The Kingdom of Fife, Its Ballads and Legends’, was clearly, not only inspired by his love of his native Kingdom, but also by the unfailing support of his wife Helen who died before Robert. But they had enjoyed forty nine years of happy marriage before Helen died, aged 86, on the 21st of October, 1944 in their house, Lindisfarne, 40 South Road, Cupar. Robert also lived to a great age before he also died in Cupar, aged 79, on the 19th of March, 1953..
William Gray was born on September 20th, 1885 in Ladybank, Fife. Ladybank was previously known as The Ladybog or Our Lady’s Bog” and was where the monks of Lindores Abbey in Newburgh, Fife, came to cut peat. After the United Free Church united with Church of Scotland in 1929 there was for a time two parish churches in Ladybank. Ladybank is located about 23 miles North of Edinburgh,14 miles South West of Dundee, and 15 miles South East of Perth, Perthshire. Ladybank golf course was founded in 1879 and a six-hole course designed by Old Tom Morris. The course was expanded to 18 holes in 1961 and has been used as a qualifier for The Open Championship. Ladybank railway station was opened in 1847 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on their line from Burntisland, being the point at which the line divided into two branches to Cupar and Lindores. The latter branch was subsequently extended to Hilton Junction, near Perth, Perthshire, the following year. On 6 June 1857, the Fife and Kinross Railway opened, providing a link to Kinross. This line was closed to passengers on 6 June 1950, with the line between Auchtermuchty and Ladybank closing to freight on 29 January 1957. Passenger trains were also withdrawn on the Perth branch, as far as Bridge of Earn, on 19 September 1955 by the British Transport Commission, the route having been reduced to single track, with a loop at Newburgh, by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1933. The line was retained for freight traffic and was subsequently reopened to passengers in 1975 to provide a shorter route between Perth and Edinburgh than that via Stirling. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. 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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