Tour Scotland very short 4K Autumn travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a Kilt and Sporran and walking during storm waves on the coast on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the coast of Little Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde, Britain, United Kingdom. Little Cumbrae, Scottish Gaelic: Cumaradh Beag, is an island located South of Great Cumbrae, its larger neighbour. The Cumbraes take their name from the Old Norse Kumreyjar, meaning " islands of the Cymry " referring to the Cumbric speaking inhabitants of southern Scotland. They are referred to under this name in the Norse Saga of Haakon Haakonarson. The Cumbraes were one of the remote locations that early Irish monks settled. James Archbald was born on March 3, 1793, on the rugged island of Little Cumbrae off the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. After his family emigrated to the United States to escape the Lowland Clearances, he went on to become a prominent engineer in the American railroad and canal industries and was elected as the first mayor of Carbondale, Pennsylvania in 1851. Archbald was born into a family of shepherds on the small, rocky island. When he was a teenager, economic disruptions forced his family to relocate across the Atlantic. He eventually found his footing in the industrial boom of Northeast Pennsylvania, finding work with major transport firms like the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. In addition to serving four terms as Carbondale's mayor, his engineering impact on the region's coal infrastructure was so profound that the nearby borough of Archbald, Pennsylvania, was named in his honour. 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. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30
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