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Discover your Scottish Highland Roots. |
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If you have Scottish roots, have you ever wondered
how your ancestors lived in Scotland long ago? What clothes did they wear?
What was everyday life like for them? Was home a castle or a croft?
Historian Peter Lawrie would be pleased to assist descendants of Scots emigrants to
discover their ancestral roots. Email: peter.lawrie@glendiscovery.co.uk
and let Peter know how much you have already discovered.
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Even
if you do not have Scottish ancestors, Peter would be delighted
to assist you in discovering the Scotland you want to see.Your holiday
in Scotland will be made memorable by advice on visits to cultural sites
and museums which have relevance to your own family background. You go
to the places you want to go. If you have researched your genealogy, Peter
can inform you about the places which, until now, have been just names.
Except by special arrangement Peter does not arrange or conduct tours. |
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See our Accommodation page for details of our Bed & Breakfast or Self Catering accommodation. The house overlooks the beach at Broughty Ferry on the Tay riviera where liners cruise by. Dolphins are an occasional sight in summer, but swans pass sedately by every day. |  |
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Curious swans at Broughty Ferry, wondering where the Pelican came from. - But not nearly as much as the herd of twitchers following its every move!
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Do you like the tartan? From 1747
to 1782, the use of tartan and wearing of the kilt or belted plaid, except
by the Highland regiments of the British army, became an offence punishable
by transportation to the colonies. In 1822, Sir Walter Scott stage-managed
the visit of George IV to Edinburgh, in which the king himself was persuaded
to wear a kilt. From then on every family in Scotland had to have its
own clan tartan made by the woollen weavers of Lowland Stirlingshire and
Clackmannan. Most modern tartans (with a few exceptions) date from this
time or after. The process is by no means complete and it is common today
for companies and institutions in Scotland to have their own tartan.
Although I am descended from a number of Highland clans, my male line
'Lawrie' ancestors lived in Banff in the 17th century. Some of them joined
the Jacobite army which was defeated at Culloden in 1746. Other Lawries
in the 16th to 18th centuries were found in the Lothians, in Lanarkshire
and in Dumfries (the famous Annie Laurie of Maxwelton). One of my distant
cousins has designed and registered a 'Lawrie' tartan and I have used
it as a background with his kind permission. See the
Laurie tartan company. |
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If
you are too busy to visit Scotland, but wish to discover more about a
site of importance to your family, Peter can provide digital photographs
and historical background to the level of detail specified by you. Let
us know what you want. |
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