Tour Scotland short aerial 4K travel video clip, with Scottish Music, of old footage of Hawick, have an ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Borders, Britain, United Kingdom. Hawick is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is 10 miles South West of Jedburgh and 9 miles South South East of Selkirk. It is one of the farthest towns from the sea in Scotland, in the heart of Teviotdale, and the biggest town in the former county of Roxburghshire. Hawick's architecture is distinctive in that it has many sandstone buildings with slate roofs. The town is at the confluence of the Slitrig Water with the River Teviot. Sir Andrew Smith, was born on 3 December 1797, in Hawick. He was a British surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. He died on11 August 1872. Helen Wilson Fell was born on 27 July 1849 in Hawick. She was was a Scottish born Australian diarist and philanthropist. Fell died in North Sydney in 1935. 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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