Tour Scotland Video Colonel James Gardiner Grave Graveyard Carriden Bo'ness West Lothian

Tour Scotland video of the Colonel James Gardiner gravestone in the old graveyard at Carriden on ancestry visit to Bo'ness in West Lothian, Scotland. James, born 10th of January 1687, died, 21st September 1745, was a Scottish soldier who fought in the British Army, including during the 1745 Jacobite rising. He was born at Carriden, educated in Linlithgow, and joined the army at the age of fourteen. He served with distinction in several battles and was promoted through the ranks to Colonel in 1743. Gardiner was known as a rake in his youth, but had a religious experience in 1719 and became a devout convert. In 1726 he married Frances Erskine, daughter to the ninth Earl of Buchan; five of their thirteen children survived to adulthood. During the Battle of Ramillies he was shot through the mouth and nearly killed by a French soldier who had returned to plunder the dead. However, Gardiner was spared after being mistaken for a French soldier. At the Battle of Prestonpans he was mortally wounded by the Highlanders after his dragoons had fled the field and he was attempting to rally some footsoldiers. He received a mortal blow whilst wounded on the ground and was stripped to the waist as his possessions were looted by the Highlanders. After the battle Gardiner was carried from the field by a servant to nearby Tranent where he soon died. By a quirk of fate Gardiner lived close to the battlefield in Bankton House. " A brave soldier and a devout Christian. I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith "

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Tour Scotland Video Jessie Roger Grubb Window Martyrs Church St Andrews

Tour Scotland video of of the Jessie Roger Grubb Memorial stained glass window in Martyrs Church on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Jessie was born Janet Bett on 5th February, 1870 at Burnside, Auchtermuchty, Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Her parents were James Bett, a Gas Manager, and Janet Roger. Jessie was 26 when she married 48 year old Charles Grubb, a Grocer and Wine Merchant, on 15th June, 1896 at Don's Bank, Auchtermuchty. His parents were Charles Maitland Grubb, a Porter and Farmer at different times, and Maria Watson Gardiner. Jessie and Charles lived at St Columba's, 1 Murray Park, St Andrews, at least from 1915 until her death. Charles owned houses and shops at 84 and 86 Market Street where he had his own shop, and others which he let out to various businesses and tenants. Charles died of Cerebral Apoplexy at Kilmorack, Pitlochry, Perthshire on 7th June, 1925, aged 77. Jessie died from Arterio Sclerosis, aged 78, at home on 3rd February 1948. Above is the stained glass window in her memory in the Martyrs' Church, North Street, St Andrews.

The surname Grubb 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.

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Old Photograph Fishermen Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen by the harbour in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748 in Kintyre, a village near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In 1753, when he was 5, his family emigrated to York County, Pennsylvania, America, near the Maryland border, then a frontier. At age 15 he was head of a free school in Maryland. At age 19 he entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, where he joined Philip Morin Freneau, James Madison, and others in forming the American Whig Society to counter the conservative Cliosophic, or Tory. In 1772 he became headmaster of an academy in Somerset County, Maryland, with Freneau as his assistant. He went back to Princeton for a Master's degree, and then served in George Washington's army as a chaplain, preaching fiery patriotic sermons to the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1780 at age 32. In 1781 Pittsburgh was a village of 400 inhabitants, mostly Scots, like himself, Scots Irish, and Germans. He was elected in 1786 to the Pennsylvania state assembly. In December 1799 Governor Thomas McKean appointed him a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The Allegheny County borough of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, is named for his son, the lawyer, judge, and writer Henry Marie Brackenridge, born 1786, died 1871.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boats Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in the harbour in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fishermen Fishing Boat St Monans Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen on a fishing boat in St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. In the latter part of the 1800s and early decades of the next century, the harbours of places like St Monans, Anstruther and Pittenweem were the centre of local life. Busy and buzzing, all the industries depended on the sea. Boat builders wielded adzes to handcraft wooden fishing craft, then sealed the hulls with hot black pitch. there were blacksmith, sail makers, the rope works, cork factory, net makers and the iceworks. There were gutters to clean the fish, and packers to fill the wooden barrels made by local coopers.



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