Tour Scotland 4K Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish accordion music, on ancestry, family genealogy, history visit to Comrie in West Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Comrie is located immediately to the west of Oakley on the A907 road between Dunfermline and Alloa. There had been coal and ironstone mining in the vicinity since middle of the 19th Century but the community developed in the 1930s and 1940s along with the sinking of the Comrie coal mine to the northwest by the Fife Coal Co. The mine later became associated with the Longannet Complex, but closed in the mid-1980s. The earliest record of the surname Comrie is from 1297 when Patrick de Strathearn, the third son of Malise, the 6th Celtic Earl of Strathearn, Perthshire, was given a charter for the lands of Comrie from his father, and was therefore entitled to the style Patrick de Comrie. His son was Thomas de Comrie, 2nd of that Ilk, meaning 2nd of that line. Their heirs for over 300 years were known as Comrie of that Ilk, having dropped the “de” around 1500. Details are recorded of legal disputes over the generations, and John Comrie, 8th of that Ilk was outlawed several times for acts of theft and violence. The last Comrie of that Ilk, John, the 9th, was compelled to sell the lands of Comrie to John Drummond, 2nd Earl of Perth for 19,000 merks in 1629, but the following year obtained the lands of Dunira from that same Earl. William James Comrie, born 1860, died 1945, was the son of James Comrie, one of twelve children of WIlliam and Janet who had followed his eldest brother to New Zealand and become a farmer, William became a presbyterian minister in 1888, becoming General Treasurer of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand in 1906. He was Moderator of the Church in 1922 and retired in 1928. He wrote a history of the Presbytery of Auckland in 1939. He married Polly Bayly and they had six children. Peter Comrie, born 1868, died 1944, was in Muthill, son of a Blacksmith, he studied a wide range of subjects, both arts and science, at St Andrews University graduating with honours in Natural Philosophy. He was awarded the Carstairs Prize for the best mathematics student. He taught at schools in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and was appointed Rector of Leith Academy in 1922. He was a president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D. by St. Andrews in 1928. He married Charlotte Aikman of St. Andrews in 1917. John Dixon Comrie, born 1875, died 1939 was the youngest son of a much loved GP in Peterhead. John Dixon Comrie graduated with an MB degree, first class honours, from Edinburgh University in 1899. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1906, in which year he edited the first edition of Black’s Medical Dictionary, continuing as editor until the 17th edition published posthumously. He took an MD degree in 1911. He did postgraduate studies in London, Berlin and Vienna. During the first World War he bacame Officer-in-Charge of the Second Scottish General Hospital and then acted as consulting physician to the North Russian Expediationary Force, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was lecturer in medical history at Edinburgh University and held consulting posts at several Edinburgh hospitals. He married Margaret Hewat in 1911; they had three daughters. Leslie John Comrie, whose ancestry was Scottisg, was born in 1893, and died in 1950 was born in Pukekohe in New Zealand and attended university in Auckland where the Computing Laboratory now bears his name. He lost a leg in the first World War and after recuperating settled in the United Kingdom. He became the first director of the Computing Section of the British Astronomical Association in 1920 and gained a PhD degree from Cambridge in 1922. He became deputy superintendent at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1926. He was a pioneer in the use of calculators to create mathematical and astronomical tables. In 1937 he founded the world’s first private company for scientific computing. During the second World War he headed a team of thirty scientists to computerise war work, such as the creation of bombing tables. He published several books of mathematical tables. He married twice, first to Noelene Dagger. 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. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. The date for astronomical Summer in Scotland is Tuesday, 21 June, ending on Friday, 23 September. @tourscotland
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