Tour Scotland short 4K Winter travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music of the exterior and interior of the Bachelors Club house on ancestry, genealogy, famiily history visit and trip to Tarbolton South Ayrshire, Britain, United Kingdom. This small 17th century thatched house was used by poet Robert Burns and his friends as the meeting place for a debating club for unmarried men. The upstairs room of the house was the largest in Tarbolton and was used for a number of social events. It was probably the first rural debating society in Scotland and the prototype for many Burns Clubs the world over. On 11 November 1780 a debating club was founded by young men from Tarbolton parish, inspired by one that was established in Ayr, by Robert Burns, Gilbert Burns, Hugh Reid, Alexander Brown, Thomas Wright, William M'Gavin and Walter Mitchell. Robert Burns was unanimously elected president for the first meeting, held in the property of John Richard, used as an al -house.[David Sillar, who lived nearby, was added to the list of founders in May 1781, followed by Matthew Paterson, James Paterson, and John Orr in 1782. The Club continued in operation for some years after Burns left the district. Robert Burns also attended dancing lessons here in 1779, much to his father's annoyance. Rules were drawn up for the Bachelors Clun, the tenth and most significant of which read:" 'Every man proper for a member of this Society, must have a frank, honest, open heart; above anything dirty or mean; and must be a professed lover of one or more of the female sex. No haughty, self-conceited person, who looks upon himself as superior to the rest of the Club, and especially no mean spirited, worldly mortal, whose only will is to heap up money shall upon any pretence whatever be admitted.'" The subjects included: " Whether do we derive more happiness from Love or Friendship? " " 'Whether is the savage man or the peasant of a civilised country in the most happy situation? " " 'Suppose a young man, bred a farmer, but without any future, had it in his power to marry either of two women, the one a girl of large fortune, but neither handsome in person or agreeable in conversation but who can manage the household affairs of a farm well enough; the other of them a girl every way agreeable in person, conversation and behaviour, but without any fortune, which of them shall he choose? " 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. @tourscotland #bagpipes #winter #shorts #scotland
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