Saturday 31 May 2008

Ancestry Tours of Inverary High Street Scotland


Ancestry Tours of Inverary High Street, Scotland.

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Thursday 29 May 2008

Ancestry Tours of Baledgarno Scotland


Ancestry Tours of Baledgarno, Perthshire, Scotland. Baledgarno village was built, around 1807, by the 8th Lord Kinnaird.

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Thursday 22 May 2008

Ancestry Tours of Auchmithie Angus Scotland


Ancestry Tours of Auchmithie, Angus, Scotland.

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Tuesday 20 May 2008

Berry Ancestry Tours of Scotland


Berry Ancestry Tours of Scotland. Berry Gravestones at Forgan Churchyard, Fife, Scotland.

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Friday 16 May 2008

Gilbert Falconer Ancestry Tour of Scotland


Gilbert Falconer Ancestry Tour of Scotland. This gravestone can be found in Kilconquhar Parish Churchyard, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Sacred to the memory of Gilbert Falconer of Braeside, upwards of 30 years Teacher of English School Aberdeen, who died at the Manse of Lathones on the 13th of December 1852, aged 66 years.

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Wednesday 14 May 2008

John Allan Ancestry Tour of Scotland


John Allan Ancestry Tour of Scotland. This gravestone can be found in Dundee Howff, Dundee's City Cemetery, Tayside, Scotland. Erected in memory of John Allan, Wig Maker, Dundee, died 28th February 1804, aged 69.

Dundee sits on the north side of the Firth of Tay, eighteen miles east of Perth.

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James Kyd Ancestry Tour of Scotland


James Kyd Ancestry Tour of Scotland. This gravestone can be found in Elie Parish Churchyard, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Here lie, James Kyd, of Elie Lodge, Lieutant Royal Navy, died 1795, aged 72.

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Monday 12 May 2008

Ancestry Tours of Lochgelly Scotland


Ancestry Tours of Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland. Lochgelly Cemetery. Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland, was once a well known Scottish mining town. Lochgelly in 1846, a village, in the parish of Auchterderran, district of Kirkcaldy, county of Fife, two miles from Beath; containing 612 inhabitants. This village is pleasantly situated in the southwest part of the parish, and near the loch from which it takes its name; the high grounds have an elevation of more than 300 feet above the level of the sea, and are cultivated to the very summit. The borders of the loch, which is three miles in circumference and in some parts of great depth, abound in richly diversified scenery, comprising highly cultivated fields well inclosed, and numerous flourishing plantations. A subscription library is supported, and a savings' bank has been long established here. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the neighbouring collieries belonging to Lord Minto, and in the quarries. The road from Beath to Auchterderran passes close by the village. There is a place of worship for members of the United Secession; also two schools attended by about seventy children each, and the masters of which are exclusively supported by the fees.

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Ancestry Tours of Cardross House Scotland


Ancestry Tours of Cardross House Scotland. Cardross House originally had a Z-plan layout with a circular stair tower to the north, and a square tower on the south. The date 1631 is inscribed on the ceiling. In the late 18th century, the north front was given a symmetrical facelift with a recessed front. A Gothic two storey stable block, circa 1790, lies to the north-east of the house, replacing earlier offices to the south-east. It has a two-storey symmetrical frontage to the south, with a blind arch in the centre and corner pavilions. The walled garden lies to the north of the stable block, with a curved north wall and a low south wall. There is a wrought iron hand gate on south wall with stone piers. There is an early sundial, which sits on a later column, with a brick plinth. The Erskine graveyard is situated in the far east of the policies with six gravestones, bearing the Erskine, Bruce, and Stirling names, from 1767 onwards. They are all simple except for neo-medieval cross of 1849 to George Keith Erskine.

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Saturday 10 May 2008

John Connel Ancestry Tour of Scotland


John Connel Ancestry Tour of Scotland. This gravestone can be found in Burntisland Cemetery, Fife, Scotland. In loving memory of John Connel, Coalmaster, born at St Andrews, 25th February, 1835. Died at Burntisland, 25th February, 1905. Also, Isabella Stocks Wishart, his wife, born at Kinglassie, 27th November, 1836. Died at Burntisland, 16th January, 1924. Also their second son John Connel J.P., agent of the National Bank of Scotland Limited, Burntisland. Born 3rd May, 1867. Died 15h March, 1937.

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Friday 9 May 2008

John Duncan Ancestry Tour of Scotland


John Duncan Ancestry Tour of Scotland. This gravestone can be found in Kinghorn Cemetery, Fife, Scotland. Erected to the memory of John Duncan, Shoemaker, who died 22nd of February, 1859, aged 42 years.

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Thursday 8 May 2008

James Lamb Ancestry Tour of Scotland


James Lamb Ancestry Tour of Scotland. This gravestone can be found in Greyfriars Graveyard, Fair City of Perth, Scotland. Erected by The Reverend James Lamb, Old Kilpatrick, in memory of his father, James Lamb, Stuffer of Birds, who died 12th April, 1876, aged 77 years.

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Tuesday 6 May 2008

Ancestry Tours of Kirkcaldy Scotland


Kirkcaldy Old Kirk, Fife, Scotland. For over 760 years there has been Christian worship on the little hill where the Old Kirk building stands. The tower is late 15th century. Tour Kirkcaldy Churchyard on a small group Tour of Scotland.

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Sunday 4 May 2008

Jean Sangster Ancestry Tour of Scotland


Jean Sangster Ancestry Tour of Scotland. This gravestone can be found in The Scottish Episcopal Churchyard of St. Mary and St. Peter, Montrose. Here lyes the remains of the body of Jean Sangster affectionate wife of James Birss, Mason in Montrose.

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Saturday 3 May 2008

Ancestry Tours of Carriden Scotland


Ancestry Tours of Carriden Scotland on the best Scottish Tours. Carriden Old Church, Scotland. The church was built in 1766 to replace the medieval church adjacent to Carriden House. It is T-shaped in plan and finished in simple Georgian style. An aedicule was attached to the north side of the building in 1771 to protect the monument to Sir William Maxwell of Carriden. Carriden in 1846, a parish, in the county of Linlithgow, East from Borrowstounness; containing, with the villages of Blackness, Bridgeness, Cuffabouts, Grangepans, and Muirhouses, 1208 inhabitants. This place derives its name, originally Caer-edin, from an old Roman station on the wall of Antonine, which extended into this parish, nearly to Carriden House. Of this wall, however, there are no remains, though several Roman antiquities have been discovered, at different times, including a gold coin of the Emperor Vespasian, a Roman altar without incription, a brass sword, several vases, and other relics. Few events of historical importance occur in connexion with the parish, except such as are closely identified with the castle of Blackness, which, with the village, is noticed in a separate article. The parish extends for three miles, along the southern shore of the Frith of Forth, and is about two miles in breadth, comprising 2719 acres, of which 2550 are arable, with some fine tracts of meadow and pasture, 113 woodland and plantations, and the remainder roads and waste. The surface is varied, rising from the shore, for nearly a mile, in bold undulations, which, as they approach the south-west, near Linlithgow and Borrowstounness, attain an elevation of 519 feet above the sea, and form part of the Irongath hills; towards the east, they gradually subside into gentle acclivities. The shore is a sloping sand, mixed with calcareous matter, and, at low water, expanding into a considerable breadth of a mixture of alluvial soil and sand; the sandy margin, however, is gradually becoming firmer and more stony, from the encroachment of the sea.

The soil varies from a light sand to a rich and fertile loam, and, in some parts, to a heavy clay; the system of agriculture is in a highly improved state, and the crops are, grain of all kinds, potatoes, and turnips. Some attention is paid to the rearing of live stock; the sheep, of which small numbers are pastured on the lands, are generally of the black-faced kind; the cattle are the short-horned, occasionally intermixed with others from the north. The rateable annual value of the parish is £4510. The plantations consist of oak, ash, elm, beech, plane, lime, and larch, for all of which the soil is tolerably adapted. There are several quarries of freestone for building, and whinstone for the roads, which are worked for domestic use; coal is every where abundant, and has been wrought from a very remote period. Within the present century, not less than ten collieries have been opened, at a short distance from each other; but only four, of which two belong to the Duke of Hamilton, are at present in operation. Ironstone, also, is wrought to some extent. Carriden House is an ancient mansion with modern additions, situated in grounds tastefully laid out, and embellished with the windings of the Carriden burn, of which the banks are beautifully picturesque.

At the village of Grangepans, the making of salt is carried on to some extent, for which there were formerly six pans; but only four are now in operation. Near Blackness is a valuable field of clay, twelve feet in depth, affording materials for the making of bricks and tiles, of which, in 1834, the produce amounted to 150,000 bricks, 200,000 roofing, and the same number of draining tiles, since which time, the demand has much increased. At Bridgeness, is a pier for the shipping of coal and salt, and the landing of lime and manure; it has been recently enlarged by the proprietor, and with it is connected a railway, about a mile in length, from the collieries. Facility of communication is afforded by the road from Linlithgow to Queensferry, which passes through the south-eastern portion of the parish. On the lands of Capt. Hope, some stake-nets were laid down a few years since, and the quantity of salmon taken has occasionally been considerable. The ecclesiastical affairs are under the superintendence of the presbytery of Linlithgow and synod of Lothian and Tweeddale; the minister's stipend is £249. 17., with a manse, and a glebe valued at £25 per annum; patron, the Duke of Hamilton. The church, a neat plain structure, erected in 1766, about half a mile from the old church, of which the burial-ground is still used, contains 458 sittings. The parochial school is well conducted; the master has a salary of £34, with a house, and an allowance in lieu of garden, and the fees average about £8 per annum. There is a good parochial library. Colonel Gardiner, who was killed at the battle of Prestonpans, in 1745, was a native of this parish; Dr. Roebuck, of Sheffield, the original founder of the Carron iron-works, and associated with the celebrated Watt in some of his improvements on the steam-engine, is buried in the churchyard; and the late Rear-Admiral Sir George J. Hope was proprietor of Carriden House.

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Thursday 1 May 2008

Ancestry Tours of Kinloch Parish Church Scotland


Ancestry Tours of Kinloch Parish Church Scotland. Kinloch Parish Churchyard, Perthshire, Scotland. Located on the road between Blairgowrie and Dunkeld.

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