Tour Scotland short 4K Winter travel video of a, road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, along the narrow John Street, George Street on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Cellardyke in the East Neuk of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. This is where I was raised in Scotland. Captain Alexander Rodger was born in Cellardyke in 1804. Alexander was only ten when he was left an orphan by the loss of his father, who perished by the capsizing of his boat while at the Burntisland herring fishery on the last day the year 1814. A few years later he was one of the crew in his brother David’s fishing boat. At the age of eighteen began life as a sailor on the little Dundee brig the Ocean, and when little more than twenty two he was sailing master of a square rigged ship trading to the Mediterranean. Subsequently Captain Rodger was in command on voyages to all parts the world, in the course of which his ship was the first to sail from Glasgow to Australia, an incident that at the time attracted much attention as an extraordinary era in the navigation of the Clyde. He was later the owner of the tea clipper Taeping which won a grand race from Foochow to London against fifteen other clippers including the Ariel captained by his friend and rival Captain John Keay, born 1828, died 1918. This involved a journey of almost 16,000 miles in only 90 days. He died in Glasgow in 1877 and Rodger Street in Cellardyke is named in his memory. Cellardyke was formerly known as Nether Kilrenny, Scots for Lower Kilrenny, or Sillerdyke, and the harbour as Skinfast Haven, a name which can still be found on maps today. The harbour was built in the 16th century and was rebuilt in 1829. The modern name of the town is thought to have evolved from Sillerdykes, a reference to the sun glinting off fish scales encrusted on fishing nets left to dry in the sun on the dykes, or walls, around the harbour. Fishing was a hazardous occupation, and over the years a number of boats from Cellardyke were lost. On 6 April 1826 a boat was lost. Seven of the crew perished and one survived. On 28 May 1844 a boat with eight crew members was lost. Two years later, on 23 April 1846 a boat with seven crew was lost. On 3 November 1848 a boat with eight crew was lost. The next loss occurred on 10 May 1865, when a boat with eight crew disappeared. In 1910 a boat from Pittenweem sank off Cellardyke with the loss of three lives. There was one survivor. In addition, on 1 July 1837 a boat from Cellardyke carrying people on an excursion to the Isle of May as part of a celebration for the start of the herring fishing foundered. Seventeen women and children lost their lives. I was raised in this old fishing village on the East coast and attended Cellardyke Primary School and Waid Academy in Anstruther. I was raised a Dyker. The Fife Coastal Walking Path goes through Cellardyke and runs from the Forth Estuary in the south, to the Tay Estuary in the north and stretches for 117 miles. 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. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March
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