Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland photograph of Stained Glass windows in 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 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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Tour Scotland travel video of the John Cowan Stained Glass Memorial Window in St. John's Kirk, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This window, the work of Herbert Hendrie, was the gift of Mrs Annie Cowan, in memory of her husband John.
This surname, widespread in Scotland and Ulster, Ireland, is an Anglicized form of the old Gaelic MacEoghain or MacEoin. The Gaelic prefix " mac " means " son of ", plus the personal name Eoghan from the old Celtic " Ouen ", meaning well born, but believed to derive ultimately from the Greek " Eugenious ", " born lucky " or " well born ". In Ireland Eugene replaced Eoin, the old Irish form of John, and the various patronymic forms of the name include MacOwen, MacCown, MacCone, MacKeown. The forms Cowan, Cowen and Kewon resulted from the subsequent loss of the " Mac " prefix. In 1582 one, John Cowan was Chancellor of Christ church, Waterford, and in 1639 Cowan's Hospital in Stirling was founded by John Cowan, a merchant there. On June 29th 1643 Marionne Cowan and George Mwir were married in Ochiltree, Ayrshire. On May 8th 1846 Pat Cowan, a merchant, aged 21 years, embarked from Liverpool on the " Rochester " bound for New York, America. He was a famine immigrant to that city. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Elizabeth Cowan, marriage to Edward Humphery, which was dated November 12th 1580, London, England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1.
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Tour Scotland travel ideo of the John Ritchie Stained Glass Memorial Window in St. John's Kirk, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit ant trip to Perth, Perthshire. This window, the work of Herbert Hendrie was the gift of Mrs Ritchie, in memory of her husband, John Ritchie, Sheriff Clerk in Perth, who died in 1923.
Recorded as MacRitchie, McRitchie, Riche, Richie, and Ritchie, this surname is of early medieval English and Scottish origin. It is a diminutive of Richard, the popular Germanic personal name composed of the elements " ric ", meaning power, and " hard ", brave or strong. The surname as MacRitchie is mainly found in the Highlands, and more usually without " Mac " in Southern Scotland and the English border counties. Early examples include Duncan Richie, a kings messenger in Perth in 1505, John Riche who witnessed an instrument of sasine in Brechin in the same year, and Robert McRichie also known as Makryche, of Glenshee in 1571, whilst Duncan Riche was the king's sheriff of Inverness in 1512. William Ritchie founded the Scotsman newspaper in 1817, and Alexander Ritchie was an Edinburgh artist of repute in the early half of the last century.
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Tour Scotland travel of the Neil Gow Stained Glass Memorial Window in St. John's Kirk, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. The window is known as the Neil Gow Stained Glass Window given that it was the gift of Neil Gow, of Perth, in memory of his parents. Niel Gow, born 1727, died 1807, was the most famous Scottish fiddler and travelling dance instructor of the eighteenth century. Gow is a surname of Scottish or Gaelic origins. The origination is the Gaelic word gobha meaning an iron worker or smith, and is usually found as MacGowan or McGowan. The Gow's are regarded as being part of the Clan Chattan. Examples of early surname recordings taken from the charters and registers include Alexander Gowansoun, who it is recorded was hanged in Dundee in 1578, although for what crime is not known, and Michael Gow who was arrested in Perth in 1595 for raiding. Agnes Gowlett was christened at Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England, on March 12th 1621, whilst Colin Gowin of Isle of Tiree, was denounced as a rebel in 1695.
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