Tour Scotland Video Eliza Jane MacNab Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Eliza Jane MacNab stained glass memorial window in St. John's Kirk, on ancestry history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Born in Crieff on 25 Aug 1838. Jane married David MacPherson and had 6 children. She passed away on 16 Sep 1910 in Perth. The sunname Macnab is derived from the Scottish Gaelic Mac An Aba, which means child of the abbot. According to tradition the progenitor of the clan was Abraruadh who was the Abbot of Glen Dochart and Strathearn. Abraruadh was allegedly a younger son of Kenneth MacAlpin, the first king of Scots.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Marion Proudfoot Stained Glass Window

Tour Scotland travel photograph of the Marion Proudfoot Stained Glass Memorial Window, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to St. John's Kirk, Perth, Perthshire. The surname Proudfoot was first found in London where Gilbert Proudfoot was sheriff of London around 1140 and it is interesting to find that the first known bearer of the surname was a sheriff, thus a person who might be justified in walking with a proud step. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Tour Scotland Video Andrew Heiton Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Andrew Heiton Stained Glass Memorial Window on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to St. John's Kirk, Perth, Perthshire. Andrew Heiton was a well known Perth architect of the nineteenth century. Andrew was born in Inchture, Perth and Kinross, the son of Andrew Heiton, another architect, and Janet Lorimer. He had at least one brother, the younger Thomas Arthur Heiton. He served as an apprentice under his father, who had moved to Perth. He then worked with William Burn and David Bryce in Edinburgh, before returning to practice with his father in the mid-1840s. John Murray Robertson became their apprentice in the mid-19th century. The duo built or added to several railway stations, including that of Stirling and Perth. They also served as the Perth's City Architects from 1856, succeeding William Macdonald Mackenzie. Heiton Jr. continued alone after the death of his father on 8 August 1858. He inherited Darnick estate, in the Scottish Borders, restoring its 16th-century tower. He died on 3 March 1894. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Stained Glass St John's Kirk

Tour Scotland travel video of photography of Stained Glass windows on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to St John's Kirk, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish church has a wonderfully representative collection of the work of outstanding stained glass artists, both men, and women, of the 20th century.


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Tour Scotland Photograph Video James Kidd Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel photography of the James Kidd Stained Glass Memorial Window on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to St. John's Kirk, Perth, Perthshire. James Kidd was a farmer at Mains of Errol, Perthshire.

This interesting Anglo Scottish surname has three possible origins. The first is from a medieval nickname for a lively, frisky person, and derives from the Middle English, kid, meaning a young goat. The second possible origin is from the Middle English word " kidde " meaning a faggot of wood, and is an occupational surname for a seller of firewood and kindling. The third source is Anglo-Scottish, and is a derivative nickname of " Kit ", itself a pet form of the name " Christopher ", a Greek personal name introduced by Crusaders returning from the Holy Land in the 12th century. There are a number of variants of the modern surname including Kidd, Kidde, Kyd, Kydde, Kidman, etc. Early examples of the surname recordings include Reginald Kyd in the Hundred Rolls of Oxford, England, for the year 1273, Willelmus Kydde in the 1379 Poll Tax Rolls of the same city, and Roger Kidd, who is recorded as being at James Cittye, Virginea on February 23rd 1623. This Roger Kidd was one of the very earliest settlers in the New World. Another was William Kidd of Boston, Massachusetts, who in 1696 was given the command of a privateer to suppress piracy in 1696, but undertook piracy himself, finding it more profitable than being a "Kings man". The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Kide, which was dated 1181, in the pipe rolls of the county of Suffolk, during the reign of King Henry 11, known as The Builder of Churches.



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