Tour Scotland Video John Cattanach Gravestone Newtonmore Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of the John Cattanach gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Newtonmore in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highlands. Recorded in various spellings including Catto, Cathoch, Cattach, Cattanach, and Cattenach, this is a Scottish surname. It could be described as "descriptive" as the name translates literally as "belonging to the Clan Chattan", and as such is probably the only surname of its type to be found anywhere. The clan it is said claim descent from one Gillacatain, first recorded in 1376, and translating as the follower of Saint Catan, and earl;y Holy man of the 7th century or thereabouts. The surname has never been very populous but is found in pockets in the highlands particularly in Upper Deeside, Braemar and Strathdon. As Cattach it was a name originally found only in the Buchan District of Aberdenshire. The surname is first recorded in the 15th Century and developed as Catanache in 1623, when Arthur Catanache was the attorney at Wadbuster in the Shetlands, with James Cattache being recorded in Aberdeen in 1633 and Iain Cattoch in 1685. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Andrew Cathoch. This was dated 1463, when he was a witness at the Aberdeen Court during the reign of James III of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Craigtoun Hospital By St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the now derelict Craigtoun Hospital on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Craigtoun Hospital was was at one time a mansion house owned by the Younger family who also previously owned Craigtoun Park itself. Dr James and Mrs Annie Younger, of the famous family of Scottish Brewers, lived here, at Mount Melville, as it was called when they were in residence. Many good causes in East Fife benefited from Dr and Mrs Younger's generosity. Deeply interested in the Episcopal Church, Mrs Younger was responsible for the completion of All Saints' Church in the 1920s and the Rectory of the Church completed in 1939. She and her husband donated the Younger Hall to the University of St Andrews. It was built at a cost of £90,000 and formally opened in 1929 by the Duchess of York when it was presented to the University. Mrs Younger was President of the St Andrews Horticultural Association and for many years the exhibit of flowers from Mount Melville gardens was a feature of the shows. She took an interest in the St Andrews Cottage Hospital, and each year gave a Christmas dinner to staff and patients. Mrs Younger died in August 1942 aged 78, and is buried in the Eastern Cemetery, St Andrews.

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Tour Scotland Video Heavy Rain Outside My Cottage Scone Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of heavy rain outside my cottage in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Scottish weather forecast today was of persistent and heavy across Perthshire, Angus and Fife.

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Tour Scotland Video Bonnie Prince Charlie Monument Loch Shiel

Tour Scotland video of the Bonnie Prince Charlie Monument on the shores of Loch Shiel on ancestry visit to Lochaber, Scotland. In 1745 the Jacobite Rising began here when Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard here. Prince Charles initially landed from France on Eriskay in the Western Isles. He then travelled to the mainland in a small rowing boat, coming ashore at Loch nan Uamh. On arrival on the Scottish mainland, he was met by a small number of MacDonalds. He waited for a number of days as more MacDonalds, Camerons, Macfies and MacDonnells arrived, On 19 August 1745, after Prince Charles judged he had enough military support, MacMaster of Glenaladale raised his royal standard. The Young Pretender then announced to all the mustered clans he claimed the Scottish and the English thrones in the name of his father James Stuart, the Old Pretender. A MacPhee, Macfie, was one of two pipers with Bonnie Prince Charlie when he raised his banner.

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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Traditional Dancing Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of traditional Scottish dancing at the Highland Games in John Dixon Park on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. Highland dance or Highland dancing is a style of competitive solo dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games. Highland dancing is often performed to the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music. It is now seen at nearly every modern-day Highland games event.

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