Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Castle Kennedy on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dumfries and Galloway, Britain, United Kingdom. This is a ruined 17th century tower house located about 3 miles East of Stranraer. The property belonged to the Kennedys from 1482; the castle was started in 1607, on the site of an earlier stronghold, by John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis. After a brief period in the hands of the Hamiltons of Bargany the property passed to the Dalrymples of Stair around 1677. The castle was gutted by fire in 1716, and it was never restored. John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis, born 1575, was a Scottish peer, the son of Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis and Margaret Lyon. He succeeded to the titles of 7th Lord Kennedy and 5th Earl of Cassillis on 14 December 1576. He married Jean Fleming, widow of John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, on 4 November 1597. There had been a plan for him to marry a daughter of the Earl of Glencairn. She died soon after, and this was a cause of a quarrel between the families. On 1 November 1604 he was imprisoned in Blackness Castle for assaulting his wife. He appealed several times for his liberty to the Privy Council for the unmannerly insolence committed by him against his wife. He died on the 14th of November 1615. The surname of clan Kennedy was first found in Ayrshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, where the earliest record of them dates from 1185, during the reign of King William the Lion, when a Henry Kennedy was reported to have been involved in a rebellion in Galloway but died in battle. The Kennedys derived from a branch of Celtic Earls of Galloway, not to be confused with Galway, which is in Ireland. Their power and influence in that region was great. In fact, there is a rhyme handed down through clansmen and bards from the year 1300 which runs as follows: " Twixt Wigtown and the town of Ayr, Portpatrick and the Cruives of Cree. No man need think to bide there, unless he court with Kennedy. " 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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