Tour Scotland short 4K Spring travel video, with Scottish bagpipes music, of a road trip drive on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Auchtermuchty in Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. James Ferrier was born on 22 October 1800 in Auchtermuchty.. Ferrier migrated to Canada in 1821 and established himself in Montreal, Quebec, as a successful Scots Quebec merchant. He served as a city councillor of Montreal from 1841 to 1848. Ferrier was chancellor of McGill University from 1884 to 1888. He is commemorated by Ferrier Street in northwestern Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal. Ferrier died on 30 May 1888. Captain George Moodie in 1911, moved from Methil to continue his retirement on the High Street of Auchtermuchty. Moodie was the Captain of the Cutty Sark sailing ship for three years before resigning after an exhausing ordeal at sea during a voyage, and race against Thermopylae. Captain Moodie went on to have a 19 year career sailing steamships from London and Glasgow to New york before retiring to Methil and later to Auchtermuchty, where the air was considered beneficial to his health. John Shoolbred was born on 13 March 1766 in Auchtermuchty and was a Scottish naval surgeon. He is associated with the early widespread use of smallpox vaccine in India in the early 19th century. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1789 he joined the East India Company as a surgeon. In 1801 he married Lucy Rand in Calcutta. Their daughter, Helen Mary Shoolbred, married Admiral Norwich Duff. He retired from the East India Company in 1821 and died in Cheltenham, England, on 12 October 1831. The village was used as the location for Tannochbrae in the 1990s ITV series Dr. Finlay. Craig Reid and Charles Reid musicians and founders of the folk rock group The Proclaimers were born in Leith on 5 March 1962 and grew up in Edinburgh, Cornwall and Auchtermuchty. When they lived in Auchtermuchty they attended Bell Baxter High School. James Shand was born in East Wemyss in Fife, Scotland, son of a farm ploughman turned coal miner and one of nine children. The family soon moved to the burgh of Auchtermuchty. His father was a skilled melodeon player. Jimmy started with the mouth organ and soon played the fiddle. At the age of 14 he had to leave school and go down the coal mines. He was prevented from joining the RAF by a digestive disorder, and spent the war years in the Fire Service. Soon after the war he became a full time musician, and adopted a punishing lifestyle later adopted by rock bands. He would play Inverness in the Highlands one night, London, England, the next night and still drive the van back to bed in Dundee. He took his trademark bald head, Buddy Holly spectacles and full kilted regalia, Scottish reels, jigs and strathspeys to Australia, New Zealand and North America, including Carnegie Hall in New York. In 1972, Shand went into semi retirement. From then he played only small venues in out of the way places for a reduced fee. He was made a freeman of Auchtermuchty in 1974, North East Fife in 1980 and Fife in 1998. He became Sir Jimmy Shand in 1999 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 20th March, ending on 21st June
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