Tour Scotland Video David Tosh Gravestone Howff Cemetery Dundee

Tour Scotland travel video of the David Tosh, Boatman, gravestone, in the Howff graveyard cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dundee. Erected by David Tosh in memory of his wife Agness Hall who died 28th January, 1843, aged 50.

Recorded as Tash, Tashe, Tasche, Tesh, and Tosh, this unusual surname is of early medieval English origin. It is a variant of the more familiar Ash or Nash, a topographical name from residence by a prominent ash tree. The derivation is from the early English phrase " atten asche ", or at the ash, which later became ate Assh, Nash, Tash, and others. Early examples of the surname include: William atte Nasche and John ater Aysse, noted in the Subsidy Rolls of Sussex in 1273; Henry Aten Assche of Worcestershire, in 1301; Roger atte Ashe in Norfolk, in 1327; and Alan Tassh, recorded in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk also in 1327. Other recordings include examples such as that on December 21st 1611, of Elizabeth Tash, christened at St. Dunstan's in East Stepney, and on July 26th 1759, William Tosh, whose daughter Elisabeth, was christened at Swallow Street Scottish Church, city of London, England.

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Tour Scotland Video Margaret Duncan Gravestone Howff Cemetery Dundee

Tour Scotland video of the Margaret Duncan gravestone in the Howff Graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dundee. The land of the Howff burial ground was part of the Franciscan, Greyfriars, Monastery until the Scottish Reformation. In 1564 Mary, Queen of Scots granted the land to the burgh of Dundee, for use as a burial ground. It was used for meetings by the Dundee Incorporated Trades, and subsequently became known as The Howff, from the Scots word howff meaning a meeting place. Meetings at The Howff ceased in 1776. The last burial took place in 1857. The walls along the west side date from 1601.

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Tour Scotland Video George Murdoch Gravestone Howff Cemetery Dundee

Tour Scotland travel video of the George Murdoch, Maltman, gravestone in the Howff Graveyard on ancestry, history visit and trip to Dundee. This interesting name is Gaelic in origin, and is the Anglicized form of two Gaelic personal names that, over time, have coalesced into one, usually written as " Muireadhach ". The two original names were " Muiredach ", a derivative of " muir ", sea, which meant " belonging to the sea ", a mariner and " Murchad ", meaning " sea warrior ". The resulting personal name was introduced into Yorkshire, England, before the Norman Conquest of 1066 by Norwegians from Ireland, and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Murdac, Murdoc and Meurdoch. The modern surname is thought of as Scottish, but it was not until the reign of William the Lion, King of Scotland, born 1165, died 1214, that one Walter Murdoch is recorded as witness to several charters.

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Tour Scotland Video Robert Ramsay Gravestone Howff Cemetery Dundee

Tour Scotland travel video of the Robert Ramsay, Brewer, gravestone in the Howff Graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dundee.

Recorded in the spellings of Ramsay and Ramsey, this ancient and noble surname is of Anglo Saxon and Scottish origins. In all spellings it is locational either from places in Huntingdonshire and Essex in England, or from the lands of Ramsey in the parish of Whithorn, in the former county of Wigtown, Scotland, The first bearer of the name in Scotland was Simundus de Ramsia. He was a Norman baron from Huntingdonshire in England, who was a retainer of David, Earl of Huntingdon, the brother of King Alexander 1 of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Slider Gravestone Howff Cemetery Dundee

Tour Scotland travel video of the William and Joseph Slider gravestone in the Howff Graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dundee. Erected by Joseph Slider, painter in Dundee, in memory of his brother William Slider who died on the 5th of July, 1815, aged 21. The above mentioned Joseph Slider who died 29th of February, 1819, aged 32.

This interesting surname of Anglo Saxon origin is a metonymic occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century " slyth " meaning " slaughter. " Church records of the variants include Richard Slider who married Margarett Savage on May 23rd 1592 in St. Mary Abchurch, London, England, Johanna Slyder who married John Woode on November 30th 1616 at Edmonton, and Richard, son of Ricardi and Janae Slider who was christened on March 8th 1639 in St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster.

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