Tour Scotland Video Smallpipes Glencarse Games Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a musician playing the smallpipes at Glencarse Highlands Games on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip by Inchyra House near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The village of Glencarse is situated 4.1 miles to the east of Perth and lies alongside the A90 road. It was formerly served by a railway station on the Caledonian Railway. John Gabriel Murray, a former Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, was the incumbent of the Scottish Episcopal Church’s All Saints Church in the village from 1959 to 1970,

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Tour Scotland Video The Carloways Band Glencarse Games Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Carloways Band from Bridge of Earn at Glencarse Games by Inchyra House near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Mearns Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Mearns Castle by Newton Mearns located seven miles South West of Glasgow, Scotland. The castle was built by Herbert, Lord Maxwell, under a royal warrant issued in 1449, and remained with the family until the fifth Lord was required by King James VI to deliver it up to the crown. It was sold to Sir George Maxwell of Nether Mearns in the middle of the seventeenth century, and later passed to the Shaw Stewart family.



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Old Photograph Pollock Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Pollock Castle by Newton Mearns located seven miles South West of Glasgow, Scotland. Pollok Castle was a tower house castle built by the de Pollocs in the 12th or 13th century and became the seat of Clan Pollock. The castle was rebuilt between 1686 and 1694 by Sir Robert Pollok, 1st Baronet of Pollok, with a new east wing. Destroyed by fire in 1882, it was rebuilt afterwards in 1886 in the Scots Baronial Style. It was requisitioned by the British Army in 1939 during World War II, bar one wing occupied by the Pollok family throughout the war and the lands used as an ammunition dump. In 1944, Miss Ferguson Pollok abandoned the castle and the castle deteriorated and was required to be demolished in 1952. The castle was again rebuilt in 2003, in the Scottish Adam style by Alex Hewitt.



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Old Photograph Southfield House Newton Mearns Scotland

Old photograph of Southfield House in Newton Mearns located seven miles South West of Glasgow, Scotland. Suthfield was sold in 1691 by Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall to Robert Urie of Millbrae and in 1771 was acquired by Alexander Hutchison, a Jamaican merchant. It remained in the Hutchison family until 1902.

The Hutchison name was adopted as a surname by the end of the 13th Century: Gilbert Huchun, recorded in the Subsidy Rolls of Sussex, dated 1296. The patronymic appears in the late 14th Century especially in Northern England and in Scotland. In the modern idiom the surname can be found recorded as Hutchison, Hutchason, Hutchinson and Hutchins. One of the earliest settlers in the New World Colonies was John Hutchinson, who departed from the Port of London, aboard the " Bonaventure ", bound for Virginia, America, in January 1634.



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