Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, on country road routes on ancestry, genealoy, family history visit to Murthly, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Murthly, Scottish Gaelic Mòrthlaich, is a village located 5 miles South East of Dunkeld, and 9 miles North of Perth. Perth District Asylum, later known as Murthly Hospital, was opened in the village on 1 April 1864 for pauper lunatics. It was the second district asylum to be built in Scotland under the terms of the 1857 Lunacy Scotland Act. It closed in 1984 and was later demolished. The village formerly had a railway station on the Perth and Dunkeld Railway, which closed in 1965. William Drummond Stewart was born on 26 December 1795 at the castle in Murthly and was the second son and one of seven children of Sir George Stewart, 17th Laird of Grandtully, 5th Baronet of Murthly and of Blair. The family decided that William would go into the Army, as his older brother would inherit his father's estate and title. After his seventeenth birthday in 1812, William asked his father to buy him a cornetcy in the 6th Dragoon Guards. After his appointment was confirmed on 15 April 1813 he immediately joined his regiment and began a programme of rigorous training. Stewart was anxious to participate in military action; on 22 December 1813 his father purchased for him an appointment to a lieutenancy in the 15th King's Hussars, which was already in action during the Peninsular War. The appointment was confirmed on 6 January 1814 and Stewart joined his regiment, subsequently seeing combat during the Waterloo campaign in 1815. On 15 June 1820 Stewart was promoted to a captain and soon thereafter retired on half pay. Seeking adventure, Stewart travelled to St. Louis, Missouri, America in 1832, where he brought letters of introduction to William Clark, Pierre Chouteau Jr.; William Ashley and other prominent residents. He arranged to accompany Robert Campbell, who was taking a pack train to the 1833 rendezvous of mountain men. The party left St. Louis on 7 May and attended the Horse Creek Rendezvous in the Green River Valley of Wyoming. Here Stewart met the mountain men Jim Bridger and Thomas Fitzpatrick, as well as Benjamin Bonneville, who was leading a governmental expedition in the area. With some of the men, Stewart visited the Big Horn Mountains, wintered at Taos, and attended the next rendezvous at Ham's Fork of the Green River. Later that year, he journeyed to Fort Vancouver, 90 miles up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean. Stewart attended the 1835 rendezvous at the mouth of New Fork River on the Green and reached St. Louis in November. Finding that his finances were curtailed because his brother had failed to forward his share of the estate left by their father, Stewart went to New Orleans, speculated in cotton to recoup, and wintered in Cuba. In May, he joined Fitzpatrick's train to the Rockies for another rendezvous on Horse Creek. In. In 1838 he learned that his childless older brother John had died of an undisclosed disease, probably cancer. William Stewart would become the seventh baronet of Murthly. Stewart returned to Scotland and Murthly in June 1839 with his romantic partner Antoine Clement, and the couple then spent many months travelling abroad, including an extended visit to the Middle East. Stewart returned to North America in late 1842, and in September 1843 and died of pneumonia on 28 April 1871. 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 spring is Sunday 20th March, ending on Tuesday 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, spring will start on Tuesday 1st March. @tourscotland #spring #music #drivingtrip #scotland #bagpipes
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