Tour Scotland Photograph William Knox Gravestone Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel photography of the William Knox, skull and crossbones, gravestone in the Abbey cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland,
This famous surname, much associated with the religious zealot John Knox, born 1505, died 1572, and with no less than three others also called John and also religious divines, can be of Scottish or English origins. In all cases it is either a topographical name for someone who lived on a hilltop, derived from the pre 7th century Old English word " cnocc " or the similar Gaelic " cnoc ", both meaning a round topped hill, or it maybe locational from one of the various places called Knock found in both Scotland and Northern England. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John de Cnoc, also recorded as Knoc, a charter witness who appears in the charter lists of Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 1260.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Ralph Erskine Gravestone Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine gravestone in the Abbey cemetery in Fife, Scotland. In 1711 he was appointed as Minister of the Second Charge at the famous Dunfermline Abbey and in 1716 he became Minister of the First Charge of that Church. That he was a scholar and a theologian of considerable ability can be shown by the fact that his collected Works in ten volumes passed through many editions. Gospel Sonnets, his best known work, was first published in 1734.



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Tour Scotland Photograph David Goodall Gravestone Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel photograph of the David Goodall Celtic Cross Gravestone in the Abbey cemetery on ancestry, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. A graveyard is at the north, south, and east of the church, and there are also some gravestones against the west boundary wall.

This interesting surname has two possible origins. The first being a metonymic occupational name for a brewer of good ale, deriving from the medieval English " gode " meaning " good " plus " ale ", ale or malt liquor. Among the earliest settlers in the New World were Robert Goodall, aged 30, and his wife Katherin, aged 28, who departed from Ipswich, England, aboard the ship named Elizabeth, bound for New England, in April 1634.



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Tour Scotland Video Unicorn Dunfermline

Tour Scotland travel video of a Unicorn in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Unicorn with Scotland flag and shield on the Dunfermline Mercat cross. A mercat cross is a market cross found in Scottish cities and towns where trade and commerce was a part of economic life. It was originally a place where merchants would gather, and later became the focal point of many town events such as executions, announcements and proclamations.
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Tour Scotland Photograph White Tulips Dunfermline

Tour Scotland photograph of white tulips in the garden by the Abbey Church in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The tulip is a Eurasian and North African genus of herbaceous, perennial, bulbous plants in the lily family, with showy flowers. The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant, Syria, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iran, north to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains.



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