Tour Scotland Photograph Dunblane Museum

Tour Scotland photograph of a well dressed tour guide at the Museum in Dunblane, Scotland. Dunblane is an Ancient cathedral city and former burgh on the Allan Water north of Stirling.

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Old Photograph Golf Course Dunblane Scotland

Old photograph of the golf course, Dunblane, Scotland. Golf Scotland. Until 1922 golf was played on a small nine hole course adjoining the River Allan on what is now the Laighills Public Park. The original course was laid out by a Mr. Philp who owned the Hydropathic Hotel which had been built in 1878. Mr. Philp leased the ground from the Honourable Captain Drummond of Cromlix for £24 per annum and bore all the expense of laying out the course.



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Old Photograph High Street Dunblane Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street, Dunblane, Scotland. Dunblane is an Ancient cathedral city and former burgh on the Allan Water north of Stirling. The present Dunblane Cathedral, dedicated to St Blane, dates from the 13th century, with restorations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The town is situated off the A9 road which has been bypassed since 1991, on the way north to Perth, Perthshire.



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Tour Scotland Photograph David Wallace Window Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph the David Wallace memorial stained glass window in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland.

Wallace is a Scottish surname derived from the Anglo Norman French waleis, which is in turn derived from a cognate of the Old English wylisc, pronounced " wullish " meaning " foreigner " or " Welshman . " The original surname may have denoted someone from the former Kingdom of Strathclyde who spoke Cumbric, a close relative of the Welsh language, or possibly an incomer from Wales, or the Welsh Marches. The Kingdom of Strathclyde was originally a part of the Hen Ogledd, its people speaking a Brythonic language distinct from Scots Gaelic and the English derived from Lothian. In modern times, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the surname has been used as an Americanization of numerous Ashkenazic Jewish surnames.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Henry Monteith Hamilton Window Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of the Reverend Henry Monteith Hamilton memorial stained glass window in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland.

The noble Scottish family of the name, who hold many titles, including the Marquessate and Dukedom of Abercorn, and the Earldom of Haddington, are descended from Walter FitzGilbert de Hameldone, a Norman baron who gave his support to Robert the Bruce in the 13th Century. However, some bearers may derive their name from the town of Hamilton near Glasgow, founded by the Hamiltons, rather than from being members of the Norman family mentioned above. A branch of the family was established in Ireland by Sir Frederick Hamilton, died 1646. He later became governor of Ulster, and his descendants were created Viscounts Boyne. James Hamilton, first Earl of Abercorn, died 1617, was gentleman of the bedchamber to King James VI, and Sir Thomas Hamilton, Lord Drumcairn and Earl of Melrose, became first Earl of Haddington in 1626. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Wauter fiz Gilbert de Hamildone, which was dated 1296.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Pulpit Dunblane

Tour Scotland photograph of the Pulpit in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Dunblane, Scotland. The Cathedral was once the seat of the bishops of Dunblane, also sometimes called of Strathearn, until the abolition of bishops after the Scottish Reformation.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Baptismal Font Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland travel photograph of a Baptismal Font in the Cathedral on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Dunblane. In front of the entrance to the Clement Chapel stands a Baptismal font designed by Sir Rowand Anderson, gifted by Mrs Wallace of Glassingall who funded the restoration of the Cathedral in 1889. The Baptismal Window near the font is by Douglas Strachan of Edinburgh, dedicated in 1926 and the gift of Mr and Mrs J D Nimmo of Dunblane, and shows the Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist in the waters of Jordan.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Nave And Choir Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of the the Nave and Choir in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. Elaborate, canopied stalls are preserved at the west end of the nave. The choir is unaisled, but has a long vaulted chamber which served as chapter house and sacristy on its north side. The choir contains the mural tomb of the Cathedral's founder, Bishop Clement.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Nave Facing West Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of the Nave, facing West, in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The Nave was built during the bishopric of Clement though probably not completed before he died in 1258. The nave was the setting for lay worship and devotion.



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May Photograph Flowers Dunblane Cathedral Scotland

May photograph of flowers in Dunblane Cathedral, Dunblane, Scotland.

Tour Scotland Photograph John Stirling Memorial Dunblane

Tour Scotland photograph of the John Stirling Memorial in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. John Stirling, 7th of Kippendavie, Perthshire, Laird of Kippenross House, was descended from a noble Scottish family. Eldest son of Patrick Stirling, Esq., and Catherine Georgina Wedderburn. He married Catherine Mary Wellings, daughter of Reverend. John Wellings and Mary Wedderburn, on 8 August 1839, in Brighton, Sessex, England. They had three sons and one daughter. He died at Kippenross House, near Dunblane, on 27 July 1882.

This distinguished surname is of early medieval Scottish origin, and is a locational name from the historic city of Stirling, in the vicinity of which several famous battles; including Bannockburn in 1314, were fought. Early examples of the surname include: Peter de Striuelin who witnessed a gift of the church of Karreden to the Abbey of Holyrood, in Edinburgh in 1158; Thomas de Striuelyn, archdeacon of Glasgow in 1228, and Sir John Stirling, who swore fealty in 1291.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Celtic Cross Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of of a Celtic Cross in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. Preserved within the pillared nave are two early Christian stones, a cross-slab and a possible architectual frieze, survivals from an earlier early medieval church on the same site, founded or dedicated to St Blane whose name is commemorated in the name of the town.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Pulpit Carvings Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of some of the wood carvings on the Pulpi in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. Dunblane has the largest surviving collection of medieval Scottish ecclesiastical woodwork after King's College Chapel, Aberdeen.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Nave Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of the Nave in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. This Cathedral was once the seat of the bishops of Dunblane, until the abolition of bishops after the Scottish Reformation. There are remains of the vaults of the episcopal palace to the south of the cathedral. Technically, it is no longer a cathedral, as there are no bishops in the Church of Scotland, which is a Presbyterian denomination. William Chisholme, the last Catholic bishop of Dunblane in 1561, later became bishop of Vaison in France. It contains the graves of Margaret Drummond of Stobhall, a mistress of King James IV of Scotland and her two sisters, all said to have been poisoned.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Angel Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of a wood carving of an Angel in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The carving was designed by Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer, born 4 November 1864, died 13 September 1929, who was a prolific Scottish architect and furniture designer noted for his sensitive restorations of historic houses and castles, for new work in Scots Baronial and Gothic Revival styles, and for promotion of the Arts and Crafts movement. Lorimer was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Lorimer, who was Regius Professor of Public Law at Edinburgh University from 1862 to 1890. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and later at Edinburgh University. He was part of a gifted family, being the younger brother of painter John Henry Lorimer, and father to the sculptor Hew Lorimer. In 1878 the Lorimer family acquired the lease of Kellie Castle in Fife and began its restoration for use as a holiday home.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Dermont Campbell Memorial Window Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of the Dermont Campbell Memorial stained glass window in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Bible Dunblane Cathedral

Tour Scotland photograph of Bible in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The Cathedral was once the seat of the bishops of Dunblane, also sometimes called of Strathearn, until the abolition of bishops after the Scottish Reformation. There are remains of the vaults of the episcopal palace to the south of the cathedral. Technically, it is no longer a cathedral, as there are no bishops in the Church of Scotland, which is a Presbyterian denomination.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Willison Memorial Window

Tour Scotland photograph of the Willison Memorial stained glass window in the Cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. The Healing of the Sick window by Douglas Strachan, presented in memory of Mr and Mrs Duncan Willison. Dr. Robert Douglas Strachan was considered the most significant Scottish designer of stained glass windows in the 20th Century. Schooled at Robert Gordon's, he studied art at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, at the Life School of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, and the Royal Academy in London. From 1895 to 1897 Strachan worked in Manchester as a black and white artist on several newspapers, and as a political cartoonist for the Manchester Evening Chronicle, until ill-health forced him to return to Aberdeen. He died at Lasswade, Midlothian and is buried in the central section of the 20th century extension to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Massachusetts Infantry Gravestone Dunblane

Tour Scotland photograph of the William M. Cowan, of the Massachusetts Infantry, gravestone in the cemetery by the cathedral in Dunblane, Scotland. One of the interesting aspects of the Cathedral is the cemetery surrounding it. Of particular interest to Americans may be one memorial marked for " William M Cowan, Massachusetts Infantry who died in Camp Readville US American in defence of the Union against the rebellion, April 1864 Aged 47 Years, " The memorial poses several interesting "mysteries". The inscription is interesting in that there is no Camp Readville. Readville is a town in Massachusetts where Camp Meigs was located. None of the records available show a William M Cowan, or William McCowan, which may be the name on the memorial. There is seems to be no information available either on who built the memorial or why it was built where it stands.



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