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Showing posts with label Tour Scotland Leuchars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tour Scotland Leuchars. Show all posts
Tour Scotland photograph shot this afternoon of a Typhoon Jet landing at RAF Leuchars near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. RAF Leuchars is home to the RAF’s newest multi role jet fighter, the Typhoon FGR4 which are on high alert to scramble and intercept intruders into UK airspace.
Tour Scotland photograph of St Athernase Church, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. St Athernase Church is a Romanesque church. It remains in use as a Church of Scotland parish church. "Athernase" is probably an anglicised form of the name Itharnán, found also in Fife at Kilrenny, and on the Isle of May, an Irish missionary who " died among the Picts " in 669 according to the Annals of Ulster.
Photograph of St Athernase Church, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland.
Photograph of St Athernase Church, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the old churchyard cemetery at St Athernase Church, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Athernase may be an anglicised form of the name Itharnán, found also in Fife at Kilrenny, and on the Isle of May, an Irish missionary who died among the Picts in 669 according to the Annals of Ulster.
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Tour Scotland photograph of old cottages in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. The town is nearly 2 miles the north of the village of Guardbridge, which lies on the north bank of the River Eden where it widens to the Edenmouth estuary before joining the North Sea at St Andrews Bay. Leuchars is 7 miles north east of Cupar and 6 miles north west from the university town of St Andrews. The city of Dundee is 7 miles to the north, across the rail and road bridges that span the Firth of Tay.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the William Taylor gravestone in the old churchyard, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. A shoemaker in Leuchars.
Taylor is a sept or branch of Clan Cameron, a Scottish clan. Present day members of the Taylor sept hold the Scottish surname Taylor. Some members of the Taylor sept are descendants of Donald Cameron, who lived in the Scottish Highlands Lochaber area in the middle of the 16th century. Others are simply descended from those with an occupational surname meaning tailor.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the John Strachan gravestone in the old churchyard, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Erected by William Strachan, Saddler in Leuchars, in memory of his son, John Strachan, who died October 6th, 1835, aged 24.
Famous Strachans from Scotland include:
Archibald Strachan, died 1652, who was a Scottish soldier who fought in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, reaching the rank of Colonel. Archibald was born in Musselburgh near Edinburgh, the son of a craftsman.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Reverend Robert Johnstone gravestone in the old churchyard in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland.
Famous Johnstones from Scotland include:
John Johnstone the 32nd Mayor of New York City from 1714 to 1719. An friend of George Scot of Pitlochie, he was a druggist from Edinburgh and emigrated to the United States in 1685 aboard the Henry and Francis. Johnstone married Scot's daughter, Euphame in 1686. Scot himself died on board ship. Between 1710 and 1714 Johnstone represented Perth Amboy in the New Jersey General Assembly. By 1714 he was mayor of New York City, in which office he served until 1716.
William Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, 1st Marquess of Annandale, born 17 February 1664, died 14 January 1721, was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell and Henrietta Douglas. He succeeded to the Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell on the death of his father in 1672.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Forrester gravestone in the old churchyard in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Erected by John Forrester, shoemaker in Leuchars, in memory of his son Robert Forrester, who died March 10th, 1842, aged 10 years.
Clan Forrester is an ancient Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. The clan took their name from their ancient role as guardians of the royal forest around Edinburgh. The Forresters had significant holdings in Lothian, and Stirlingshire. During the Wars of Scottish Independence Forresters fought at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. They also fought at the Battle of Sauchieburn in the 15th century. Sir John Forrester of Niddry died at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
Sir James Forrester, seventh chief of Clan Forrester was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, as was Sir David Forrester, 4th of the Torwood branch of the clan.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the John Dandie gravestone in the old churchyard in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Erected by Robert Dandie in memory of his son John Dandie who died 6th August 1872, aged 23.
Although the variant forms Dand, Dandie and Dandy are usually thought of as Scottish, the earliest recordings are all from English locations, the earliest Scottish instance being that of Andrew Kerr, son of the eighth Lord of Ferniehurst, who was known as " Dand Kerr " and died in 1499. The marriage of Esbell Dand and John Bukler was recorded at St. Oswald's in Durham on the 17th June 1554. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Dande, which was dated 1279, in the Huntingdonshire Hundred Rolls, during the reign of King Edward 1, known as The Hammer of the Scots. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Janet Hair gravestone in the old churchyard cemetery in, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland.
In Scotland and Ireland when the Hair name is not imported from England, it is an anglicized spelling of the surname " O'hir ", a nickname meaning the descendant of the fierce one. The surname first appears in Scotland in 1366, William Hare being a burgess of Edinburgh,
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Charles Berry gravestone, old churchyard, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Erected by John Berry, weaver, in memory of his son Charles Berry who departed this life in 1815, aged 28.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Agnes Collier gravestone in the old churchyard in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Spouse to John Balfour, tenant at Kincaple, who departed this life in 1737.
The modern Collier surname ranges from Collier, Colliar and Colliard, to Collyer, Colyer, Collyear and Colleer. Among the recordings of the name in Church Registers in London, England, are those of the marriages of John Collyer and Awdrey Parteridg at St. Dunstan in the East, on April 19th 1561, and of Thomas Collyer and Elizabeth Prowe on May 26th 1583, at St. Bartholomew the Less.
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