Tour Scotland Photograph David Carnegie Gravestone Balquhidder

Tour Scotland photograph of the David Carnegie gravestone in the cemetery in Balquhidder, Scotland. David Carnegie, of Stronvar, born 3rd of May 1813, died 15th February 1890. David was a major landowner and benefactor in Balquhidder. He was the grandson of George Carnegie who fled to Sweden after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. George established a very successful business in Gothenburg and became a wealthy man. David made his fortune from brewing in Gothenburg and also sugar refining. His second wife was his cousin, Susan. They had three children and decided to make their home in Scotland. In 1849 John Lorn Stewart sold the Glenbuckie estate to Carnegie. By this time a new Glenbuckie house had been built on the site of the present Stronvar House. The house was rebuilt on a much grander scale to the design of the architect David Bryce. Beautiful gardens were created and the estate was renamed Stronvar by Carnegie. He acquired several other areas of land including Stroneslaney and Gartnafuaran and built many houses in the village for his tenants, solid stone houses which are still there today. He gifted the Church, also designed by David Bryce, to the village in 1855 and also the school and schoolhouse in 1869 as well as the Reading Room.



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Old Photograph Causeyside Street Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of Causeyside Street, Paisley, Scotland. The Industrial Revolution based on the textile industry turned Paisley from a small market town to an important industrial town in the late 18th century. Its location attracted English mill owners; immigrants from Ayrshire and the Highlands poured in to a town that offered paying jobs to women and children. By the middle of the19th century weaving had become the town's principal industry. The Paisley weavers' most famous product were the shawls, which bore the Paisley Pattern made fashionable after being worn by a young Queen Victoria. The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 cut off cotton supplies to the textile mills of Paisley. The mills in 1861 had a stock of cotton in reserve, but by 1862 there was large scale shortages and closures.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Margaret MacLaren Memorial Balquhidder

Tour Scotland photograph of the Margaret MacLaren Memorial in Balquhidder Churchyard, Scotland. Wife of The MacLaren. Born 21st of March 1924, died 2nd September 1978. Balquhidder was the heartland of the MacLaren Clan. The MacLarens, a powerful and warlike Clan, were probably some of the first dwellers in Balquhidder Glen. They were named after Abbot Labhran who had a cell in Auchtubh around 1250. He is thought to have build Eaglais Beag, the Little Church, which was roughly at the east end of the 1631 Church



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Tour Scotland Photograph Donald MacLaren of MacLaren Memorial Balquhidder

Tour Scotland photograph of the Donald MacLaren of MacLaren Memorial, in Balquhidder Churchyard, Scotland. Chief of Clan Labhran. Born 22nd July 1910, died 8th June 1966. In the 18th century the Clan MacLaren supported the Jacobite House of Stuart and fought at the Battle of Sherrifmuir in 1715. The clan also fought in the 1745 to 1746 Jacobite Uprisings at the Battle of Prestonpans and the Battle of Falkirk in 1746. They also fought at the Battle of Culloden in the Appin regiment under Lord George Murray. After the battle the clan chief at that time, an earlier, Donald MacLaren remained a fugitive until the amnesty of 1757.



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Old Photograph Castle Roy Scotland

Old photograph of Castle Roy, Nethy Bridge, Scotland. Castle Roy is an 11th century fortress built by the Clan Comyn on a small glacial mound to the north of the modern village of Nethy Bridge. In 1420 the whole area came under the stewardship of the Clan Grant who are still the clan of this area today.



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