Old Photograph Sauchie Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and cottages in Sauchie located North East of Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The land here originally belonged to Clan Campbell, being mentioned in connection with Cailean Mór and Gilleasbaig of Menstrie. In 1321 Robert the Bruce granted the lands of Sauchie to Henry de Annand, former Sheriff of Clackmannan. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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Old Photograph Cumberland Stone Culloden Battlefied Scotland

Old photograph of the Cumberland Stone on the battlefield at Culloden, near Inverness, Scotland. According to local legend, the Cumberland Stone, by Culloden Moor, marks the spot where on the morning of the battle the Butcher Duke of Cumberland took breakfast. The huge stone served the purpose of his table, and later in the day was used by him as a vantage point to survey the field of battle. On 8 April 1746, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, set out from Aberdeen for Inverness, and, on 16 April, his army fought the decisive Battle of Culloden, in which the Stuart forces were completely destroyed. Cumberland ordered his troops to show no quarter against any remaining Jacobite rebels. His troops traversed the battlefield and stabbed any of the rebel soldiers who were still alive. When Cumberland learned that a wounded soldier lying at his feet belonged to the opposing cause he instructed a major to shoot him; when the major, James Wolfe, refused to do so, Cumberland commanded a private soldier to complete the required duty.



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Old Photograph Sheephousehill Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and children in Sheephousehill by Fauldhouse in West Lothian. West Lothian lies on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and is predominantly rural, though there were extensive coal, iron, and shale oil mining operations in the 18th and 19th centuries, which created distinctive red spoil heaps, locally known as " bings " throughout the council area. The old county town was the royal burgh of Linlithgow, but the largest town (and the second largest town in Lothian after Edinburgh) is now Livingston. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs Graves Of The Clans Culloden Battlefied Scotland

Old photograph of the graves of the Clans on the battlefield at Culloden, near Inverness, Scotland. This is the area where many of the wounded Clansmen died and were buried. The principal graves are on an elevated piece of ground and consist of two or three grass covered mounds rising slightly above the adjoining land. There are clan graves of the Mackintoshes, MacGillivrays, Macleans, Maclachlans and Atholl Highlanders, Stewarts of Appin, Camerons, Campbells, Frasers and others including Alexander MacDonald chief of the Keppoch MacDonalds.

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Old Photograph Hardgate Street Haddington Scotland

Old photograph of children on Hardgate Street in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. King Alexander II, born 24 August 1198, died 6 July 1249) was King of Scots from 1214 until his death in 1249. He was born in Haddington, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont. He spent time in England, John of England knighted him at Clerkenwell Priory in 1213, before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year. Joan of England, born 22 July 1210, died 4 March 1238, was the eldest legitimate daughter and third child of John of England and Isabella of Angoulême. She and Alexander II married on 21 June 1221, at York Minster. Alexander was 23. Joan was 11. They had no children. Joan was Alexander's 3rd cousin, their closest common ancestor being Henry I of England. Joan died in Essex in 1238, and was buried at Tarant Crawford Abbey in Dorset, England. King Alexander II died on the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides. He died there in 1249 and was buried at Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders.



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