DEAN CEMETERY, EDINBURGH
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The Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
Robert Cox Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Robert Cox gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. Robert, born 1810, died on the 3rd of February 1872, was a Scottish lawyer, known as a writer of several works on the question of the Christian Sabbath, and a phrenologist. He was the son of Robert Cox, leather-dresser, of Gorgie Mills, near Edinburgh, and of Anne Combe, sister of George Combe and Andrew Combe. He was born at Gorgie on 25th of February, 1810, and received his early education at a private school and at Edinburgh High School. Besides attending the classes of law and of general science at the university of Edinburgh, he also studied anatomy under Robert Knox. Cox, a writer to the signet, took an active part in the Right of Way Association, and was one of the parties to the action against George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl, by which Glen Tilt was reopened to the public. The surname Cox is of English or Welsh origin, and may have originated independently in several places in Great Britain, with the variations arriving at a standard spelling only later. There are also two native Irish surnames which were anglicised into Cox. An early record of the surname dates from 1556 with the marriage of Alicea Cox at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London, England. Cox is the 69th-most common surname in the United Kingdom
George Combe Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the George Combe gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. George, born 21st of October 1788, died 14th of August 1858, was a Scottish lawyer and writer on phrenology and education. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of a brewer, and the elder brother of Andrew Combe. After attending the High School of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, he entered a lawyer's office in 1804; and, in 1812, he began his own practice. His most popular work, The Constitution of Man, was published in 1828. In 1840 he published his Moral Philosophy, and in the following year his Notes on the United States of North America. In 1833, Combe married Cecilia Siddons, a daughter of the actress Sarah Siddons, and sister of Henry Siddons, the author of the Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action. She brought him a fortune, as well as a happy marriage. The Coombe surname is an English: topographic name from Middle English combe, Old English cumb, of Celtic origin, denoting a short, straight valley, or else a habitational name from a place named with this word. There are a large number of places in England, mostly spelled Combe, named with this word.
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David Octavius Hill Monument Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of the David Octavius Hill monument in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. David, born 1802, died 1870, was an artist and photography pioneer The monument is by his second wife, Amelia Robertson Paton, born 1820, died 1904. David Octavius Hill was born in 1802 in Perth. His father, a bookseller and publisher, helped to re-establish Perth Academy and David was educated there as were his brothers. He formed Hill & Adamson studio with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland.
The surname Hill was first found in Worcestershire, where one line is descended from the De Montes of Castlemorton in Worcestershire, England.
Scotland was another ancient homeland for the Hill family name. In this case, the first record was William de la Hyll, son of Waldeve son of Aldewyn, who resigned lands in Mydilham in 1271. William o' the Hill rendered homage to King Edward I of England in 1296 and in 1321 William de le Hille was received to the king of England's peace. It was Richard de Hulle, Hill, ' varlette of Scotland, who striked and killed, Catarine Mortimer, a damoisel of London, one of the inmates of the harem of King David II in 1360.
The name has been spelled Hill, Hille, Hyll, Hills and others.
John Hill, an English convict from Essex, was transported aboard the Ann on August 1809, settling in New South Wales, Australia.
George Hill, aged 36, a carpenter, arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship Arab in 1841.
Francis Hill, aged 20, emigrated to Canada, arriving at the Grosse Isle Quarantine Station in Quebec aboard the ship John Munn departing from the port of Liverpool, England but died on Grosse Isle on September 2nd, 1847.
Abraham Hill, landed in Charlestown, Massachusetts, America, in 1640.
Essex Helen Gray Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Essex Helen Gray gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. The surname Gray was first found in Northumberland, England, with Anschatel Groy of Haute Saone, Normandy, who fought with William the Conqueror in 1066 AD. After the conquest, Anschatel Groy settled in Chillingham, Northumberland. He was from the department of Haute Saone called Gray, sometimes Groy, or Croy, in Normandy. Gray is a name, who ancestors come from the noble Boernician clans of the Scottish English borders region. It is a name for a person who had gray hair. In Scotland, the surname Gray actually came from two different derivations. As a nickname, it came from the Gaelic word riabhach, which means gray.
Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Colonel Robert A. Smith monument in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. On September 14, 1862, Scottish born Colonel Smith was ordered to capture a vital bridge during the Battle of Munfordville. After three hours of combat, Confederate losses were 40 dead and 211 wounded. Smith himself was mortally wounded and in great pain until he died several days later.
Frances Hermitage Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Frances Hermitage gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. Grave of Frances Hermitage and her husband John Houston Barrie. The surname Hermitage was first found in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, at Kirkless, a hamlet, in the chapelry of Hartshead cum Clifton, parish of Dewsbury, wapentake of Morley. The hamlet was originally the site of a Cistercian nunnery, founded in the reign of King Henry II and later passed to the Pilkingtons and later to the Armytages, whose mansion formed part of the conventual buildings, till the time of King James I.
Lieutenant John Irving Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Lieutenant John Irving gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. Lt John Irving of HMS Terror, born 1822, died 1848 or 1849, died on King William Island as part of the Franklin Expedition searching for the Northwest Passage and whose body was found some 30 years later and brought back to Edinburgh for burial, re-interred 7th of November 1881. The surname Irving was first found in Dumfriesshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Dhùn Phris, a Southern area, bordering on England that today forms part of the Dumfries and Galloway Council Area. They descend from Duncan the first of Eryvine , killed at the battle of Duncrub in 965. The earliest listed was William de Irwin, an armor bearer to King Robert the Bruce. He received a grant of lands encompassing the Forest of Drum, on the banks of the River Irvine. And it was here that he had Drum Castle built which would become the family seat of the Clan for centuries. The river originally was named Lar Avon, or West River. Robert de Hirvine, ancestor of that previous William was mentioned in a Charter dated 1226 and he was at that time tenant of the Douglas Clan. From 1331 to 1333 the family received further grants of land and by 1400 had become a very predominant family. The Chief of the Irvines lead his Clansmen in the Battle of Harlaw in 1511. Sir Alexander Irvine was slain there, and it was said of him: Gude Sir Alexander Irvine, The much renowned Laird of Drum.
John Wilson Monument Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the John Wilson monument in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. John Wilson was born at Edinburgh in 1800, and at ten years of age was sent to learn the printing business. When his apprenticeship was over he became a proofreader in James Ballantyne's printing office, and is said to have been one of the few to whom the secret of the authorship of the Waverley Novels was made known. During this time he was studying music and training his voice to speak as well as sing, and, in spite of the protestations of his friends, he made his first appearance on the stage in Edinburgh in 1830. He was beyond question one of the most accomplished vocalists of his time. In 1849, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Wilson entered upon another American tour. While at Quebec, he was seized with cholera on July 7th, and died two days later. His last wish was to be buried in a Scottish grave, but the circumstances of the case forbade that wish being carried into effect, and the great singer was laid at rest in Mount Hermon Cemetery, Quebec, Canada.
John Mure Steel Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the John Mure Steel gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. Recorded as Steele, Steel, Stell and Stelle, and the patronymics Steeles and Steels, this is an Anglo Scottish surname. It has several possible origins. The first is from the Olde English pre 7th Century word style , meaning steel, and an occupational nickname for skilled man who worked with iron and steel. Secondly and again a nickname, it may have described someone who was as hard as steel, or true as steel . Thirdly it can be locational from places called Steele or Steel in Ayrshire, Berwickshire and Dumfrieshire in Scotland, and Northumberland, Westmorland and Shropshire in England.
Arthur Perigal Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Arthur Perigal gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. Arthur was born in 1816 and died in 1884, he was a landscape painter, born in London in August 1816, and instructed in painting by his father. At first a drawing-master in Edinburgh, he sent in 1838 to the exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy a study of John Knox's pulpit and some scenes in the Trossachs, and from that time became a regular contributor of landscapes, sending more than three hundred. He roamed in search of subjects over all parts of Scotland, and occasionally into the mountainous districts of England and Wales. He repeatedly visited Switzerland and Italy, and also made an extended tour in Norway; but his preference was for the scenery of the Scottish Highlands and the banks of the Tweed and Teviot. In 1841 he was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, and in 1868 he became an academician. He painted also in water-colours, and exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy and other London exhibitions. He was a keen and skilful angler. He died suddenly at 7 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh, on 5 June 1884, and was buried in the Dean Cemetery. Moorland, near Kinlochewe, Ross-shire by him, is in the National Gallery of Scotland.
Alexander Monro Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Alexander Monro gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. Alexander of Craiglockhart, born on the 5th of November 1773, died on the 10th of March 1859, was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and medical educator at Edinburgh Medical College. One of the Burke and Hare murderers, William Burke, was hanged on 28th of January 1829, after which he was famously dissected at the Edinburgh Medical College by Alexander Monro himself. In a letter, Monro dipped his quill pen into Burke's blood and wrote, This is written with the blood of William Burke, who was hanged at Edinburgh. This blood was taken from his head. The Pictish clans of ancient Scotland were the ancestors of first people to use the name Monro. The name was found near the foot of the river Roe in the Irish county of Derry. The Gaelic form of the name is Rothach, which means a man of Ro or a man from Ro. The surname Monro was first found in Cromartyshire, where they were descended from Donadl O'Kane and his Irish sept, who left their homeland at the mouth of the river Roe, in Ireland and settler in Ferrindonald in Cromarty, in the 11th century. Other historians suggest the name was originally Monrosse, because they were Mountaineers of Ross. In this case, their traditional origin is from the Siol O'Cain, an ancient Pictish tribe descended from Anselan O'Cain in North Moray, which also produced the Buchanans and the MacMillans.
Robert Monro, born 1841, aged 22, British shepherd travelling from London, england, UK aboard the ship Brothers Pride arrived in Lyttelton, South Island, New Zealand on 8th December 1863
Alexander Monro settled in Georgia, America, in 1735 with his wife and children
Thomas Bonnar Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Thomas Bonnar gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. The Bonnar surname is found particularly in England and Scotland; one Thomas Boner was the first of the name to be recorded in Scotland as a charter witness in Aberdeen in 1281. Secondly, Bonner may be an Irish surname from County Donegal, translation of the Gaelic O'Cnaimhsighe , descendant of Cnaimhseach, a byname meaning Midwife. James Bonner was an early settler in the American Colonies, arriving in Virginia in 1623. Finally, the surname may be of Welsh origin, as an Anglicized form of the patronymic ab Ynyr , son of Ynyr, a personal name derived from the Latin Honorius , meaning Honoured
John MacGregor McCandlish Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the John MacGregor McCandlish gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. John MacGregor; Member of Faculty of Actuaries; Writer to the Signet. Born 1821, died 1901 aged 80. Mary Sibbald Dalmahoy, wife of John MacGregor McCandlish, born 1833, died 1900 aged 67. Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Dalmahoy McCandlish, son of John MacGregor McCandlish, born 1871, died 1942, aged 71. The surname McCandlish was first found in Galloway, Gaelic: Gall-ghaidhealaibh, an area of southwestern Scotland, now part of the Council Area of Dumfries and Galloway, that formerly consisted of the counties of Wigtown, West Galloway, and Kirkcudbright, East Galloway, where they held a family seat in Western Scotland. After the Norman Conquest of England many of Duke William's rebellious Barons moved north. The border became a convenient but turbulent no-man's land where the persecuted found haven. Many were given land by King Malcolm Canmore and later by King David of Scotland. Some Gallowegians were native Scots, some were Irish clans mostly from Ulster in the 13th century. The name was first recorded in Scotland about the 15th century in Wigtown. They may also have been McCanish sept of Atholl to the north.
James Buchanan Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the James Buchanan gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. James died in 1857, leaving £30,000 for the maintenance and instruction of destitute children . The resulting Buchanan Institute on Glasgow Green was where generations of poor children from the city's east end learned a trade, such as tailoring, shoemaking or carpentry. Buchanan is a habitational or geographical surname meaning who came from the district of Buchanan in Stirlingshire, a location near Loch Lomond in Scotland. The place name is thought to derive from the Gaelic elements buth, meaning house and chanain, meaning of the canon.
Gravestones Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of a walk around the gravestones in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. This Scottish cemetery was opened in 1846. Law lords, explorers, merchants, soldiers, philosophers, photographers, artists, academics and people from all walks of life are buried here.
Mary Buchanan Sproat Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Mary Buchanan Sproat gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh.The surname Sproat was first found in Derbyshire where the Domesday Book of 1086 lists the name was derived from the name of an ancestor, the son of Sprot. Further to the north in Scotland, the name was perhaps from Sprot, an Old English personal name, but more likely to be of Scandinavian origin. The tradition of those bearing this name in Scotland is that their ancestors were Saxons who came into Scotland after the Norman Conquest of England. The first recorded of the name in Scotland appears to be Hugh Sprot of Ur who witnessed a charter by Eustace Baliol granting the church and lands of Hur or Urr in 1262 to the monks of Holyrood
Major General William John Gairdner Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Major General William John Gairdner gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. He was born in 1789 and died in 1861 aged 72. A sculpture of his hat under a canopy, with his sword at the base. Jane Wishart, his wife, was born in 1822 and died in 1894 aged 72. The surname Gairdner was first found in Oxfordshire where they held a family seat from very early times. Early records show William le Gardinier in county Rutland in 1199; William Gardin, listed in the Curia Regis Rolls of Huntingdon in 1218, John atte Gardyne, listed in the Subsidy Rolls of Sussex in 1296; and Walter le Gardiner listed in the Subsidy Rolls for London in 1292. The name Gairdner comes from one of the family having worked as a gardener. The surname Gairdner originally derived from the Old French word gardinier. It was later adopted in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
John Leishman Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the John Leishman gravestone in Dean Cemetery on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. John Leishman, Writer to the Signet, born 1801, died 1861, and of his wife Hannah Elizabeth Weatherley. The surname is the Scottish form of the name Leachman or Leechman. Describing someone who used leeches in helping a physisian, to cure somebody. The name itself first appears in Scottish records in the mid 15th Century, William Leischman or Leisman was prior of Fogo, in 1465,, and John Leishman was bailie and custumar of Stirling in 1559. Duncan Leishman of Hiltoun and Middlethird, Stirling and others were fined in 1622, for destroying wood in Torwood Forest. James Leischmanis who a dochter in Lanarkshire in 1644, while six of the name are recorded in the commissariot Record of Dunblane from 1554. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas Lescheman or Leisman was burgess of Glasgow, which was dated 1435, in the Liber Collegii Nostre Domine registrum ecclesie , during the reign of King James 1.