Tour Scotland Photograph Thomas Stewart Gravestone Alyth Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the Thomas G. Stewart gravestone in the old graveyard cemetery in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. A Mathematical Master in Edinburgh who died from the effects of an accident on the 4th of March, 1863, aged 24. The progenitor of the Stewart family was Alan fitz Flaad, a Breton knight who settled in England after the Norman Conquest. His son, Walter fitz Alan, relocated to Scotland during the Anarchy, became the High Steward of Scotland, hence the origin of the surname. One of the hereditary Stewart stewards, Walter Stewart, married Marjorie Bruce, daughter of King Robert I, and founded the royal House of Stuart, a French spelling, beginning with their son King Robert II. The House of Stewart was the longest serving royal dynasty of Scotland. In 1603, the Stewart King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England and Wales by his succession to Queen Elizabeth I. The Stewart dynasty ruled Scotland, England and Wales, with an interruption during Cromwell's Commonwealth after the English Civil War, until 1714, when Queen Anne died and the British Crown passed to the German Electors of Hanover. The grandson of James II, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, led the last attempt to restore the Stewart dynasty to the British Crown in 1745 and became known to history as " Bonnie Prince Charlie ". This attempted coup d'état ended in the slaughter of Charles' army at the Battle of Culloden in April, 1746.



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Tour Scotland Photograph James McDonald Gravestone Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the James McDonald gravestone in the graveyard cemetery in Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland. Died 3rd November 1889, aged 87. MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are Anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic name MacDhòmhnaill, which in modern Gaelic is approximated as McConnell. It is a patronym where Mac means " son " and Dhòmhnaill means " of Dòmhnall ". The personal name Dòmhnall is composed of the elements domno " world " and val " rule ". In the context of Scottish clans, the various forms of the name refer to one of the largest clans, Clan Donald.



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Tour Scotland Photograph William Thomson Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the William Thomson gravestone in the graveyard cemetery in Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland. Erected by Flora McDonald in memory of her husband. Thomson is a Scottish patronymic surname meaning " son of Thom, Thomp, Thompkin, or other diminutive of Thomas ", itself derived from the Aramaic תום or Tôm, meaning " twin ". The Welsh surname is documented in Cheshire records before and after the 1066 Norman Conquest. Variations include Thomason, Thomasson, Thomerson, Thomoson, and others. The French surname Thomson is first documented in Burgundy. Variations include Thomassin, Thomason, Thomesson, Thomeson, and others. Thomson is uncommon as a given name.



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Tour Scotland Photograph J Grubb Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the J Grubb gravestone in the churchyard cemetery in Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland. A Colour Sergeant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, he died 22nd August, 1914, aged 38. The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 until 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow Regiment, to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, which was later itself merged with the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons, to form a new large regiment, the Royal Regiment of Scotland. Grubb with variant spellings Grob, Grube, Grubbe etc., derives from the Old German " grube ", a mine, pit, hollow or cavity, from the Old High German verb " grubilon ", to dig, related to the Middle Dutch " grobben ", to scrape, and was originally given as an occupational name to a worker in a mine. The family of Grubbe, spelt in the old registers Grube or Groube, migrated from Germany about the year 1430, after the Hussite persecutions, however, the surname is on record in England from the late 12th Century, suggesting a much earlier initial date of entry. One, Johannes Grubb was noted in the 1379 Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire. The surname is particularly well recorded in church registers of South West England from the late 16th Century. In 1581, the birth of one, Thomas Grubb is recorded in Devizes, Wiltshire, and on February 18th 1582, Henry Grubb, an infant was christened in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall. The name was introduced into the Irish Counties of Waterford and Tipperary in the mid 17th Century by an English family who settled there. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Grubbe, which was dated 1176, in the " Pipe Rolls of Berkshire ", during the reign of King Henry 11, known as " The Builder of Churches ", born 1154, died 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation.



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Tour Scotland Photograph John Robertson Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the John Robertson gravestone in the graveyard cemetery in Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland. A Weaver in Rattray who died in 1849, aged 59. Robertson is Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Robert. This surname is especially common in Scotland, where Robert was a popular personal name and the name of three kings of Scotland, including Robert the Bruce, born 1274, died 1329.



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