Tour Scotland short 4K Autumn travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a Kilt and Sporran and walking by trees and Rusko Tower House on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dumfries and Galloway, Britain, United Kingdom. The land originally belonged to the Carson or Acarsane family as part of the ancient Glenskyreburn estate. Around 1494, John Carson gifted the land to his daughter Mariota and her husband, Sir Robert Gordon. In 1502, Robert Gordon was hauled before the Lords of Council for tearing down a house on nearby Crown lands to steal timber and slates for his new tower. He was ordered to pay 1,000 merks in damages, completing the tower by 1504. The Gordons of Lochinvar were notoriously violent, and Robert Gordon was outlawed in 1504 after being implicated in the murder of John Dunbar. After fleeing to France, he was pardoned in 1511 and knighted in 1516. Throughout the 16th century, the Gordon lairds routinely used Rusko Castle as a private prison to hold kidnapped rivals. After Robert Gordon died, Mariota Carson remarried Thomas Maclellan of Bombie. Fearing his mother would hand the estate over to her new husband, Mariota's eldest son, James Gordon, seized the tower and locked his own mother inside. James later murdered Maclellan on the High Street in Edinburgh while a court case over the property was underway. Once the Gordons secured the larger Lochinvar estate, Rusko became a minor residence. They sold it in the 17th century, and it passed to families including the MacGuffocks. Farm labourers and a shepherd lived in the tower until around 1900, after which it was abandoned. 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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