Agnes Crichton Gravestone Graveyard Currie Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Agnes Crichton gravestone on ancestry visit to the graveyard cemetery at Currie Kirk by Edinburgh, Scotland. This interesting surname name is of Scottish and English origin and is locational from a place so called near Utloxeter in Staffordshire, England, and Crichton near Edinburgh in Scotland. The place name in Scotland is derived from the Gaelic " crioch ", meaning a border or boundary. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Turstan de Crectune, witness of King David's Charter, which was dated around 1128 in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the reign of King David 1, of Scotland.
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Schoolmaster Gravestone Kirkton of Monikie Angus Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of the Robert Craig gravestone in the graveyard on ancestry visit toKirkton of Monikie in Angus, Scotland. In loving remembrance of Robert Craig, 26 years Schoolmaster in Newbigging, born 6th January, 1827, died 17th March, 1887. The Craig surname is of Scottish locational origin from any of the various places thus called, including Craig in North East Forfarshire, and Craig in South Ayrshire. The name derives from the Old Gaelic " creag " meaning rock, a word that has been borrowed in Middle English as " crag ". In some instances, the name may be topographical, from residence by a steep or precipitous rock. Anneys del Crage of Edinburgh and Johan del Cragge of Lanarkshire rendered homage to John Balliol in 1296, and in 1323 reference was made to the land of James del Crag, son and heir of John del Crag, in Ayrshire.
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Polish War Graves Wellshill Cemetery Perth Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of Polish War Graves and Memorial on ancestry visit to Wellshill cemetery in, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. During the Second World War, Perth's main cemetery, Wellshill Cemetery, was enlarged to provide space for the war dead of the Free Polish Forces based in Scotland. The graves are in a special section of the cemetery. The gravestones have the Polish eagle engraved on them, and at the entrance to the section is a Polish war memorial inscribed as follows, ETERNAL GLORY TO THE POLISH SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN 1939-1945. FOR OUR FREEDOM AND YOURS CHWAŁA ŻOŁNIERZOM POLSKIM POLEGŁYM W LATACH 1939-1945 ZA NASZĄ WOLNOŚĆ I WASZĄ RODACY
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George Stobie Gravestone Wellshill Cemetery Perth Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of the George Stobie gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, family visit and trip to Wellshill cemetery in Perth, Perthshire. George, who died in 1882, was a fruit merchant at 21 Kirkgate in Perth. This surname is recorded in several forms include Stobb, Stobbe, Stubb, the patronymics Stobbs, Stobbes, and Stubbes, the diminutives Stobie, Stobbie and Stobby, which may be Scottish, a Henry Stoby being a cleric in Perth, in 1356.
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Robert Wallace Gravestone Wellshill Cemetery Perth Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of the Robert B Wallace and wife gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Wellshill cemetery in Perth, Perthshire. Robert from 16 Pitcullen terrace in Perth was a brewer with John Wright and Company. Wallace is a Scottish surname derived from the Anglo-Norman French waleis, which is in turn derived from a cognate of the Old English wylisc, pronounced " wullish " meaning " foreigner " or " Welshman." The original surname may have denoted someone from the former Kingdom of Strathclyde who spoke Cumbric, a close relative of the Welsh language, or possibly an incomer from Wales, or the Welsh Marches. The Kingdom of Strathclyde was originally a part of the Hen Ogledd, its people speaking a Brythonic language distinct from Scottish Gaelic and the English derived from Lothian. In modern times, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the surname has been used as an Americanization of numerous Ashkenazic Jewish surnames.
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