Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Queen's Bridge River Tay Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland Spring travel video of vehicles crossing Queen's Bridge which carries the A93 public road over the River Tay between Perth, to the West, and Bridgend to the East on ancestry visit to the Fair City of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Queen's Bridge is an eastwards continuation of South Street. The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Perth, to the West and and Kinnoull , to the East.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Drive From Guardbridge Through Dairsie To Cupar Fife
Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive from Guardbridge through Dairsie on ancestry visit to Cupar, Fife, Scotland. David Finlay VC, born 29 January 1893 was from Guardbridge. He was the son of a shepherd named George Finlay and his wife Susan Small. He was 22 years old, and a lance corporal in the 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch Royal Highlanders, British Army during the First World War when was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Finlay was later promoted to the rank of sergeant. He was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 21 January 1916 and is remembered on the Basra Memorial. There is a memorial stone in the children's play park in the north end of Guardbridge his home village. Dairsie is a village and parish in north east Fife, located 3 miles from Cupar on the A91 Stirling to St Andrews road which developed principally around the industry of weaving. Colonel Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken VC was born in Cupar on 8 February 1826. He was the son of John Aitken and Jane Christie, of Cupar. He was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.He was 31 years old, and a Lieutenant in the 13th Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deeds took place for which he was awarded the VC: He died in 1887 and is buried in the Eastern Cemetery at St Andrews on the upper terrace.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Road Trip Drive On A917 Road To Tolbooth In Crail East Neuk Of Fife
Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive on the A917 road on ancestry visit to the Tolbooth on the Marketgate in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Tolbooth in the centre of the town has a characteristic tower and a European style roof, similar to buildings in Holland. Crail became a Royal Burgh in the 12th century. Robert the Bruce granted permission to hold markets on a Sunday, in the Marketgait, where the Mercat Cross now stands in Crail. The decision caused such outrage in religious circles that John Knox delivered a sermon at Crail Parish Church in the Marketgait damning the fishermen of the East Neuk for working on a Sunday. Despite the protests, the markets were a huge success and were amongst the largest in Europe.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video MacNaughton Window Parish Church Kenmore Highland Perthshire
Tour Scotland travel video of the MacNaughton stained glass window in the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kenmore in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. A clan with an ancient descent from the Pictish rulers of Moray, the MacNaughtons were appointed hereditary keepers of a strategic stronghold that guarded the Pass of Brander in 1267, and lands were also acquired in Argyll. Knighted by James IV, Clan Chief Alexander MacNaughton was killed along with his monarch at the disastrous battle of Flodden in 1513.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Hutchison Window Parish Church Kenmore Highland Perthshire
Tour Scotland travel video of the Hutchison stained glass window in the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to and trip to Kenmore in Highland Perthshire. The surname Hutchison was first found in Argyllshire, Gaelic erra Ghaidheal, the region of western Scotland corresponding roughly with the ancient Kingdom of Dal Riata, in the Strathclyde region of Scotland, now part of the Council Area of Argyll and Bute, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D. In the modern idiom the Hutchison surname can be found recorded as Hutchison, Hutchason, Hutchinson and Hutchins. One of the earliest settlers in the New World Colonies was John Hutchinson, who departed from the Port of London, aboard the " Bonaventure ", bound for Virginia, America, in January 1634.
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