Old Travel Blog Photograph Drinking Fountain Rothney Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses and the drinking fountain in Rothney, a hamlet which now forms a southern extension of the village of Insch village in Garioch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located approximately 28 miles from the city of Aberdeen. The name of the village may have come from the Scottish Gaelic innis, meaning an island, or, as in this context, a piece of terra firma in a marsh. In the Middle Ages, the village was home to a colony of Flemish merchants. The village is served by Insch railway station and has regular bus services to Huntly and Inverurie with connections to Aberdeen and Inverness. Dr Robert Daun was born in 1785 in Insch. He was the eldest son of Reverend George Daun the local minister. On 16 April 1785. He went to Elgin Grammar School and then studied Medicine at King's College, Aberdeen graduating MA in 1803. Having sat the relevant medical exams in London, England, in 1804 he received a commission as Assistant Surgeon, aged only 19, in the army and travelled to India to work there, aiding in the Second Anglo Maratha War. He served first with the 22nd Light Dragoons then the 59th Foot. He returned to Britain around 1812 and received his MD degree from Aberdeen University in 1813. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1814. He then joined the Scots Greys. He was nomadic by nature living in London from 1832 to 1835, St Andrews in Fife, from 1835 to 1839 and Aberdeen from 1839 to 1861. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. From 1861 onwards he lived in retirement at 6 Picardy Place at the head of Leith Walk in Edinburgh. He died peacefully at home in Edinburgh on 14 June 1871, aged 86. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in west Edinburgh. His wife, Helen Jamieson, lies with him. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Vintage Car Road Strathglass Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage car on the road through Strathglass, in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1801, William, the 24th Clan Chief of Chisholm, began the clearances in Strathglass. In the period of one year, half of the clan were evicted. Many left for Canada and Nova Scotia. After William's death, his son was still a minor; but his wife Elizabeth continued with the evictions for one sole purpose, to pay for her son's, the future 25th Chisholm, education at Cambridge. Bishop Chisholm had pleaded with her to end the evictions: " Oh! Madam, you would really feel if you only heard the pangs and saw the oozing tears by which I am surrounded in this once happy but now devastated valley of Strathglass, looking out all anxiously for a home without forsaking their dear valley; but it will not do, they must emigrate ! " She promised the tenants, who had gone to her for help, to come up with a solution. But she never did. Two sheep farmers, Thomas Gillespie and William MacKenzie, had convinced her that she should continue with the “improvements” to her land. The evictions continued with the Cambridge educated son, Alexander. He followed in his parents’ footsteps and totally depopulated Strathglass. It was said that only one Chisholm remained. Bard and poet in the old Gael tradition, Donald Chisholm, wrote these words: " Our chief is losing his kin! He prefers sheep in the glens, and his young men away in the camp of the army ! " A man of the time described Alexander as wanting nothing so much as to replace all his people, " his family from the beginning of time," with sheep. And, unfortunately, it was true.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road By Loch Ness To Fort Augustus Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage car on the road to Fort Augustus, at the south west end of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, Scotland. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising in 1715, General Wade built a fort, taking from 1729 until 1742, which was named after the Duke of Cumberland. Wade had planned to build a town around the new barracks and call it Wadesburgh. The settlement grew, and eventually took the name of this fort. The fort was captured by the Jacobites led by Bonnie Prince Charlie in April 1745, just prior to the Battle of Culloden. In 1867, the fort was sold to the Lovat family, and in 1876 they passed the site and land to the Benedictine order. The monks established Fort Augustus Abbey and later a school. The school operated until 1993. The Caledonian Canal connecting Fort William to Inverness passes through Fort Augustus in a dramatic series of locks stepping down to Loch Ness. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph St John Street Creetown Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses and a woman walking on St John Street in Creetown near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 miles Weest of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The village dates from 1785, and became a burgh of barony in 1792. Sir Walter Scott laid part of the scene of Guy Mannering in this neighborhood. Dr Thomas Brown, the metaphysician, born 1778, died 1820, was a native of the parish in which Creetown lies. The town was originally named Ferrytown of Cree as it formed one end of a ferry route that took pilgrims across the River Cree estuary to the shrine of St Ninian at Whithorn.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video Whisky Barrels Lindores Distillery In Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of whisky barrels outside Lindores Whisky Distillery on visit to Abbey Road in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The earliest record of scotch whisky cited by the exchequer roll for 1494 is a commission from King James IV to Friar John Cor of Lindores Abbey to make about eight bols of malt or 580 kg of aquavitae. The abbey is now the location of Lindores Abbey distillery.

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