Tour Scotland 4K short Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, East on the A984 old military road on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Spittalfield, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Spittalfield was a planned weaving village with traditional Scottish cottages surrounding a village green built in 1776. in 1846 the village had 238 inhabitants, mostly weavers, hence the name Spittalfield. Local people cleared from Redgole and farms round about were given new places to live and took up industry using flax weaving looms in their homes. The laird was a successful lawyer in Edinburgh but he insisted on hearing about everything that was taking place on his estate in Perthshire. Sir Alexander Muir MacKenzie, born 1840, died 1909, was the 3rd Baronet and 6th Laird of Delvine who owned estates around the area of the villages of Caputh and Spittalfield in rural eastern Perthshire in Scotland. Sir Alexander Muir MacKenzie trained in Law and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1788. In 1793 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Dugald Stewart, Dr James Gregory and Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee. In 1805 he inherited the estates of Delvine following the death of his wife's great uncle, John MacKenzie of Delvine. He was thereafter known as Sir Alexander Muir MacKenzie. In 1787 he married Jane Murray, daughter of Sir Robert Murray, 6th baronet of Dunerne. His only son, and successor was Sir John William Pitt Muir-MacKenzie, born 1806, died 1855, named in deference to William Pitt the Younger, the then prime minister. He also had eight daughters. He died on 11 March 1835. The village lies between Caputh and Meikleour, on the A984 road 6 miles east of Dunkeld
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