Old Travel Blog Photograph Of A Pipe Major 1st battalion Seaforth Highlanders In Edinburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Pipe Major, 1st battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Seaforth Highlanders was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, mainly associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The regiment existed from 1881 to 1961, and saw service in World War I and World War II, along with many numerous smaller conflicts. In 1961 the regiment was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders, Seaforth and Camerons, which merged, in 1994, with the Gordon Highlanders to form the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons. This, however, later joined the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to create the present Royal Regiment of Scotland.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Of Lumsden Family From Govan Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Lumsden family from Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. Recorded in several spellings including Lumsden, Lumsdaine, and Lumsdon, this is a Scottish locational surname. which originates from a place called " Lumsden " in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th century " lumm " meaning a pool, plus "denu " a valley. In an early Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, reference is made to an Adam de Lummesdene of Berwickshire who rendered homage in 1296. In the early half of the 14th century a branch of the Lumsden family acquired land in Fife and in Aberdeenshire, near Aberdeen to which they gave their family name, whilst John de Lummysden witnessed a charter by Duncan, earl of Fife in 1335. An interesting name bearer was Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, born 1821, died 1896, lieutenant general of the British army, and who served for many years in India. He introduced the khaki uniform into the Indian army, and it was subsequently adopted throughout the forces at the end of the 19th century. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Gillem de Lumisden. this was dated circa 1166, when he witnessed a charter by the earl of Dunbar to the Priory of Coldingham. This was during the reign of King William, the Lion, of Scotland.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Of Gilfillan Family From Govan Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Gilfillan family from Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish surname is recorded in a range of spellings including: Gilfillan, Gilffillan, Gillffilland, Gillilan, Gilliland, and others, this is a Scottish surname. It is also widely recorded in its different spellings in the province of Ulster, Northern Ireland. It derives from the pre 10th century Gaelic name " Mac gille Fhaolain ", meaning " The son of the servant of St. Faolan ", an early saint whose personal name represents a diminutive form of " faol ", meaning wolf. This personal name appears frequently in the early charters and registers of Scotland from the 12th Century, and examples taken from surviving charters include: Gillefalyn who held land in Lauderdale in the year 1214, another Gillifelan is recorded as being the dean of Kintyre in 1250. The surname has early examples of recordings which include: Ewan Gillfillance, in the register of the Privvy Seal of Scotland in 1516, James Guilliland, who was christened on July 8th 1743 at Hand Alley Presbyterian church, in the city of London, England, and Ann Gilfillan, who emigrated from Glasgow in the ship " Hynderford ", bound for the city of New York, America, on June 8th 1847.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Police Constables In Lanark Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Police Constables in Lanark, Scotland. Lanark has served as an important market town since medieval times, and King David I made it a Royal Burgh in 1140, giving it certain mercantile privileges relating to government and taxation. King David I realised that greater prosperity could result from encouraging trade. He decided to create a chain of new towns across Scotland. Lanark was the county town of the former county of Lanarkshire, though for many years Hamilton was the county town, before the formation of Strathclyde. Lanark railway station and coach station have frequent services to Glasgow. There is little industry these days in Lanark and some residents commute to work in Glasgow and Edinburgh.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Of Stewart Family From Govan Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog of the Stewart family from Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. The progenitor of the Stewart family was Alan fitz Flaad, a Breton knight who settled in England after the Norman Conquest. His son, Walter fitz Alan, relocated to Scotland during the Anarchy, and became the High Steward of Scotland, hence the origin of the surname. Stewart is the 66th most common surname in the United Kingdom.



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