Tour Scotland Travel Video Thomas Cormack Fish Curer Gravestone Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Thomas Cormack, Fish Curer, gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. The Scottish herring fleet lay in the harbour all day and in the evening they all left the harbour together. They shot their nets at sunset and hauled them at sunrise, and delivered large quantities of fresh herring to the curers on the quayside in the morning within a few hours of being caught. MacCormac, MacCormack, McCormack, McCormick and Cormack, is a surname of Scottish origins, and one well recorded in Ireland, and particularly in Ulster.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video James Donaldson Baker Gravestone Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the James Donaldson, Baker, gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. The Donaldson surname of Scottish and Irish origin, is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic patronymic name " MacDomhnall ", meaning " son of Donald ". Haket Donald paid his contribution for peace to the Bailie of Kinross in 1328 as recorded in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Davide Donaldson was one of the tenants of Campsie in 1443, and Patrick Donaldson was Keeper of the Kings Wardrobe in 1516. Walter Donaldson in 1620 was a philosophical writer and part of an embassy sent by King James V1 of Scotland to Denmark in 1594. Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson, born 1812, died 1867, was an Australian statesman and was finance minster of New South Wales in 1856. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Henry Donaldson, one of the Garrison of Edinburgh Castle, which was dated 1339. The Baker surname is of Olde English pre 8th century origins deriving from the word boeccure. The surname is always occupational, but not always for a maker of bread. There are a number of possible origins and these include an official with special responsibilities for the baking ovens in a monastery or castle, as well as the keeper of the communal kitchen in a town or village, since most of the humbler households had no cooking facilities other than a pot over a fire.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Stephen Williamson Gravestone Cellardyke East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Stephen Williamson gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. The surname Williamson was first recorded in the 1279 Hundred Rolls of Oxfordshire, England, with one Richard William. An interesting name bearer was Alexander Williamson, born 1829, died 1890, a Scottish missionary, who was ordained at Glasgow in 1855, and worked under the London Missionary Society in China from 1855 to 1858; he was an agent in China to the National Bible Society of Scotland from 1863 to 1890.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video General John Scott of Balcomie Grave Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the General John Scott of Balcomie gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. Scott was a celebrated gambler, whose skill and phenomenal luck gained him a fortune estimated at £500,000. Nicknamed Pawkey by his friends, he maintained in the fashionable world the character of the bluff soldier, the pawky Scot. He died on 7th December, 1775. George Selwyn wrote the following to Lord Carlisle; " the General Scott is dead ... The place of Nickster which is in the Devil's gift and vacated by John Scott is not disposed of. We go into mourning on Thursday. The waiters are to have crepes round their arms and the dice to be black and the spots white, during the time of wearing weepers, and the dice box muffled "
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Lumsdaine Gravestones Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Lumsdaine gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. Innergellie mansion house in Kilrenny was built in 1740 for Robert Lumsdaine. This gentleman was a leading member of what is known as the Beggar's Benison, a thriving 18th century sex club in Anstruther. Lumsden, Lumsdaine, and Lumsdon, is a Scottish locational surname. it originates from a place called Lumsden in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire. 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.
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