Tour Scotland Video Duncan MacPhee Gravestone Newtonmore Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of the Duncan MacPhee gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Newtonmore in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highlands This interesting name, with variant forms, Duffie, MacDuffie, McFee, McPhee, D'Duffie and O'Duhig, is an Anglicization of the ancient Gaelic personal name Mac Dhubhshith a compound of elements, " mac " meaning " son of " plus " dubh ", " black " and " sith ", peace, hence " son of the black one of peace ". The name was borne by a 6th Century saint who was also Archbishop of Armagh. The name is one of the oldest, most interesting, and widespread in Scotland, while also prevalent in all provinces of Ireland except in Munster, where the variant is known as Duhig. Johannes Macdufthi appears as a charter witness in Dumfridshire, in the reign of king Alexander 11 of Scotland, circa 1180. Church Recordings include one John, son of John Duffy, who was christened on May 30th 1570, at St. Giles' Cripplegate, London, England, and James Duffy married Jane Armonette on December 17th 1684, in London. James Duffy, a famine emigrant, embarked from Londonderry to New York, America, on board the " Mary Harrington ", on June 2nd 1846.

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Tour Scotland Video John Davidson Gravestone Newtonmore Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of the John Davidson gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Newtonmore in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highlands. This interesting Anglo Scottish surname is a patronymic from the male Hebrew given name David. This crusader name meaning beloved of god was borne by the greatest of the early Kings of Israel, which led to its popularity first among Jews and later among the Christians throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. St. David, the 6th Century Bishop of Menevia, became patron saint of Wales, and the name was borne by two Kings of Scotland, David 1st, who reigned from 1124 to 1153, and David 11, who reigned from 1329 to 1371. In the modern idiom the surname has numerous variant spellings including Davison, Davson, Davisson, and Davids. William Davidson, one of the early settlers in the New World, was granted a special licence to " dig for all mines of gold and other metals in Jamaica, for two years " in March 1674, by King Charles of England.

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Tour Scotland Video Maggie MacPherson Gravestone Newtonmore Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of the Maggie MacPherson gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Newtonmore in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic surname for Macpherson is Mac a' Phearsain which means son of the parson. The Celtic church allowed priests to marry and the progenitor of the chiefs of Clan Macpherson is believed to have been a man named Muireach or Murdo Cattenach who was the priest of Kingussie in Badenoch. The Clan Macpherson is part of the Chattan Confederation. In 843 the chief of Clan Chattan was Gille Chattan Mor and one of his sons, the first chief of Clan Macpherson was forced to resettle in Lochaber by Kenneth MacAlpin, first king of Scots. The chief could have been the lay prior of Ardchattan and he seems to have been named in honor of Saint Cathan. Macpherson clan traditions is that in 1309 Robert the Bruce offered the lands of Badenoch to the chief of Clan Macpherson on the condition that they destroyed the Bruce's enemies, the Clan Comyn, and the Macphersons carried out the king's wishes. The Clan Macpherson is sometimes known as the Clan of the Three Brothers owing to the fact that chief Ewan Ban Macpherson had three sons: Kenneth Macpherson of Clunie, Iain Macpherson of Pitman and Gillies Macpherson of Invereshie.

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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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