Tour Scotland 4K Summer travel video, with Scottish bagpipes music, of a Clan Menzies of Shian road trip drive on a single track road on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Highlands of Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. The Menzies of Shian, also spelled Schian or Shain, were a prominent cadet branch of the Highland Clan Menzies. While the main chiefly line of the clan Menzies of Weem or Menzies of Menzies traditionally favored diplomacy, stability, and neutrality with the Crown, the Shian branch famously took a radically different path, defining their legacy through their fierce and ultimately tragic commitment to the Jacobite cause. Colonel Archibald Menzies commanded a battalion composed of men from the Menzies estates, which was attached to Lord George Murray's famous Atholl Brigade. They took part in the entire grueling campaign, fighting in the frontline of the Jacobite army. The Shian branch effectively met its end at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746, the last pitched battle fought on British soil. Colonel Archibald Menzies of Shian was killed during the brutal clash on the moors. Historical accounts note that his son also perished during the campaign. Following the devastating defeat, surviving members of the highland army fled back into the Highland Perthshire hills. The nearby ancestral lands of the Menzies in Glen Lyon were heavily utilized as a crucial shelter for the shattered remnants of the defeated Jacobite army. A large number of Scottish people stayed in this area prior to mass eviction followed by emigration, mostly to North Easthope, Canada, in the early 19th Century. Eight or nine families had arrived in Canada voluntarily in the summer of 1832 after a voyage lasting three months. Amongst these was John Crerar from Amulree who had been factor on the Shian estate in Glenquaich, and also a whisky smuggler, running distilled spirit from illicit stills in the glens to the towns. The excise men were closing in and John Crerar emigrated to Ontario to avoid arrest. Here he found employment constructing the Twentieth Line Road into an untamed region of 44,000 acres known as the North Easthope Concession,in South Ontario. This was named after Sir John Easthope, a director of the Canada Land Company and had first been surveyed just three years before in 1829.After the Breadalbane evictions began in 1834 more and more families from central Perthshire began to emigrate . They left with great sadness. The family of Anne Menzies were forced to emigrate in 1842 and sailed from Greenock by Glasgoe on the River Clyde. The voyage was long and stormy and the ship was three times blown back to the Irish coast. Every one on board did their own cooking and ate their own supplies. There was much sickness and many died. Cholera was the scourge on the emigrant ships and over 20,000 victims of the ship-borne disease lie buried at Grosse Island, Quebec. Rob Roy MacGregor and Bonnie Prince Charlie passed through here. This road is only wide enough for one vehicle. It has special passing places. If you see a vehicle coming towards you, or the driver behind wants to overtake, try to pull into a passing place on your left, or wait opposite a passing place on your right. Give way to vehicles coming uphill whenever you can. If necessary, reverse until you reach a passing place to let the other vehicle pass. 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. Summer in Scotland officially runs from June through August #scotland
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