Tour Scotland Travel Video Coalburn I O R Pipe Band 2018 Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Coalburn I O R Pipe Band playing bagpipes and drums music and marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the 2018 Scottish Highland Games on ancestry visit to Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The band was established in 1894 and is based in the village of Coalburn, South Lanarkshire. Coalburn is easily reachable via the M74 and A70 and is only 20 minutes from Glasgow and 40 minutes from Edinburgh. The band currently attracts players from Ayrshire, Stirling, Lanark, West Lothian and Falkirk areas as well as all surrounding local areas.

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Old Photograph East Bay Bowmore Islay Scotland

Old photograph of a fishing boat in the East Bay at Bowmore, Island Of Islay, Scotland. Bowmore, Scottish Gaelic: Bogh Mòr, is a small town that serves as administrative capital of the island. It gives its name to the noted Bowmore Whisky distillery producing Bowmore Single Malt, a single malt scotch whisky. The came in operation at some time before 1816 and is situated on the shores of Loch Indaal and next to an old warehouse which is converted to a swimming pool, known locally as the MacTaggart Centre. The waste heat from the distillery is partially used to heat the water of the swimming pool.





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Old Photograph MacLean Shop Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of women outside the MacLean shop in Dingwall, Scotland. MacLean, Maclean, McLean, McClean, McLaine, and McClain is a Gaelic surname, MacGill Eain in Scottish Gaelic. There are several different origins for the surname McLean or MacLean, however, the clan surname is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic MacGilleEathain. This was the patronymic form of the personal name meaning " servant of Saint John " or the " son of the servant of Saint John ". The family grew very powerful throughout the Hebrides and Highlands through allegiances with the Catholic Church in the 9th century, the MacDonalds in the 13th century, the MacKays and MacLeods in the 16th century. Many early MacLeans became famous for their honour, strength and courage in battle. In 1411 the Battle of Dingwall is said to have taken place between the Clan Mackay and the Clan Donald. Dingwall formerly served as the county town of the county of Ross and Cromarty. It lies near the head of the Cromarty Firth where the valley of the Peffery unites with the alluvial lands at the mouth of the Conon, 14 miles North West of Inverness.



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Old Photograph Kendall Road Kemnay Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people on Kendall Road in Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. James Burnett, the next younger brother of Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet, married Elizabeth Burnett. Their second son, Thomas Burnett of Kemnay was the first laird of Kemnay. Thomas was a writer in Edinburgh and married Margaret Pearson, daughter of John Pearson, a merchant in Edinburgh. He purchased Kemnay House from Sir George Nicolson, Lord Kemnay, a Lord of Session. The older residence that the newer mansion replaced, was built by Sir Thomas Crombie, had been owned previously by the Auchinlecks and the Douglases of Glenbervie. I hope these photographs are 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 Photograph Post Office Rhynie Scotland

Old photograph of postmen and customers outside the Post Office in Rhynie village, located fourteen miles North West of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Alexander Murdoch Mackay was born on 13 October 1849 in Rhynie. He studied at the Free Church Training School for Teachers at Edinburgh, then at the University of Edinburgh, and finally in Berlin, Germany. He displayed a great aptitude for mechanics, and spent several years as a draftsman in Germany. Mackay decided to become a missionary after Henry Morton Stanley was told by Mutesa I of Buganda that Uganda wanted missionaries. He joined the Church Missionary Society in 1876. Mackay reached Zanzibar on 30 March 1876, followed by Uganda in November 1878. He taught various skills to the Ugandan people, including carpentry and farming. He was named Muzunguwa Kazi by the Ugandans. The name means " white man of work. " Mackay's work in Uganda came under threat after Kiwewa came into power. He worked in Uganda until 1890. He became sick with malarial fever and died four days later 4 February 1890.



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