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BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 12: Julia "juliano" Kiran of G2 Gozen poses at the VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2022 Features Day on November 12, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
The kit and its assembly:
This German 8x8 vehicle is a contribution to the “Back into service” Group Build at whatifmodelers.com in late 2019. Beyond aircraft I also thought about (armored) vehicles that could fit into this theme, and the SdKfz. 234/2 “Puma” (even though this popular name was never official!) came to my mind, because it was a very effective vehicle with many modern features for its time. So, what could a modernized Puma for the young Bundeswehr look like…?
The starting point became the very nice Hasegawa SdKfz. 234/2 kit, which did not – except for some PSR between the hull halves – pose any complications. I did not want to change too much for the Bundeswehr update, but new/wider wheels and a new, more modern turret with a light post-war weapon appeared sensible.
The wheels come from a ModelTrans aftermarket resin set for the LAV-25 – they are quite modern, but they do not look out of place. Their different, more solid style as well as the slightly bigger diameter and the wider tires change the Puma’s look considerably. In order to mount them, I modified the suspension and cut away the former attachment point on the four axles, replacing them with thin, die-punched styrene discs. This reduced the track width far enough so that the new, wider wheels would fit under the original mudguards. It’s a tight arrangement, but does not look implausible. The spare wheel, normally mounted to the vehicle’s rear, was omitted.
The turret was taken from a Revell “Luchs” Spähpanzer kit, but simplified so that it would have a more vintage look. For instance, the machine gun ring mount above the commander’s hatch was omitted, as well as the rotating warning light and the modern smoke grenade dischargers. The latter were replaced by the WWII triple dischargers from the Hasegawa kit, for a more vintage look.
To my astonishment, the Luchs turret was easy to mate with the Puma chassis: its attachment ring diameter was almost identical! The new part could be attached almost without a problem or modification. I just added some reinforcements to the hull’s flanks, since the Luchs turret is slightly wider than the SdKfz. 234/2’s horseshoe-shaped turret. Beyond that, only small, cosmetic things were added, like mirror fairings for both drivers above their workstations, license plates at the front and the rear and antennae.
Painting and markings:
Creating an early Bundeswehr vehicle is a simple task, because there is only one potential color option until the Eighties: a uniform livery in Gelboliv (RAL 6014). Due to the livery’s simplicity, I used a rattle can to paint hull, turret and wheels separately.
After some detail painting, a very dark brown wash with acrylic paint and some post shading with Revell 42 (also Gelboliv, but a rather greenish and bright interpretation of the tone) as well as dry-brushing with Revell 46 and 45 along the many edges were used to weather the model and emphasize details. After decals had been applied (mostly from a Peddinghaus sheet for early Bundeswehr vehicles, plus some tactical markings from the Revell Luchs), the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.
Once dry and completed, some artist pigments were added around the wheels and lower hull in order to simulate dust and dirt. On the lower chassis, some pigments were also "cluttered" onto small patches of the acrylic varnish, so that the stuff soaks it up, builds volume and becomes solid - the perfect simulation of dry mud crusts. I found the uniform livery to look quite dull, so I added some branches (real moss, spray-painted with dark green acrylic paint from a rattle can) to the hull – a frequent field practice.
Plan of the Iron Age features. This image is from the recent WA publication An Iron Age Enclosure and Romano-British Features at High Post, near Salisbury.
For more information about this site visit: www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/wiltshire/high-post
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 29: Huang "Husha" Zi-wei of PSG Talon at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Features Day on April 29, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
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Garden fountains are beautiful outdoor water accents. Outdoor fountains are used in public parks, gardens, yards, patios and decks. The most traditional design is a tiered waterfall with multiple levels where the water cascades down many levels of stone. A garden fountain is very dramatic and has a high degree of water noise and motion due to the water becoming airborne and crashing into the lower level pool below. The water finds it's way into the pool at the bottom and is taken back to the top again by a powerful water pump to begin it's journey anew. Some famous artists and sculptors have created garden water features which add life and elegance to their sculptures. Today craftsmen and increased knowledge have made available garden fountains for private residences.
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 12: G2 Gozen poses at the VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2022 Features Day on November 12, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 08: Jeong "Impact" Eon-young of Evil Geniuses poses at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Features Day on May 8, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
The calendar features images from the VigyanVijay's Eco-water literacy project titled "Youth for Water".
VigyanVijay’s Eco-water literacy project titled “Youth for Water”, in the progress of awareness to youth of different age groups, has evolved a network of institutions with water elements in the NCR- Delhi region. Among these sites, 12 of them have been selected for conducting Eco-water Trails (walks). At each of these selected sites, various key elements were identified for conducting “Water Trials” to the lead volunteers and teachers with keen interest for taking the messages to youth and the communities they are associated with.
As a result, Eco-water literacy has been successfully taken forward in various institutions and communities by these trained volunteers and teachers. Basic knowledge levels and the preferences of youth have been taken into account in these training programs organized through the respective Water-trail walks under the project.
The main aim of these trail walks is to make youth from different discipline and educational background to explore and understand the heritage, environment and the current issues and solutions attached to them. The program also involved water audit and mapping to understand the routes of water availability, usage and how it is disposed off. They were involved in exploring simple principles and practices to optimize the available water to get the best value from the available water by methods of 4 Rs- “reduce, re-use, recycle and recharge”.
VigyanVijay’s “Edu-tainment” strategy has successfully evolved apt aids, which are both traditional / conventional IEC- materials, and also innovations of using computers and modern electronic media for appropriate S&T communication to the communities. During other workshops, volunteers were involved in making posters and banners, flip-cards presentation, songs and skits, games, water-quiz, E-water learning computer flash games, etc, to the youth and communities based on the eco-water trails.
The success of the eco-water literacy is evident with the growing number of lead volunteers. The number of volunteers has grown from a meager 30 last year to nearly 60 at present. VigyanVijay has been successful in strengthening the base of educators-innovators and institutions through this initiative. The youth, who have experienced community service and belongingness, have demonstrated that they have greater potentials to stimulate dialogue and address the issues in the societies they live. The initiative of VigyanVijay has ensured that they have the necessary skills, tools and the training towards realizing this potential.
For more information, and to get calendars, contact Er. Ajit Seshadri seshadri.ajit@gmail.com. Also access the Vigyan Vijay website here: vigyanvijay.org/
For more information and usage permission, for these images contact ajit seshadri seshadri.ajit@gmail.com with a cc to portal@arghyam.org
Mark Robertson, a graduate student at Boise State University, checks the depth of the snow pack just after GROVER passes. The pole has graduated markings along its length. Mark is checking the depth of the ice layer formed after the big melt of summer 2012. For more information: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/grover.html
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 19: Jessie "JessieVash" Cristy Cuyco of Team Secret poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 19, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 29: Do "Levi" Duy Khanh of GAM Esports at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Features Day on April 29, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 12: Jonah "JonahP" Pulice (L) and Michael "neT" Bernet of The Guard pose for the VALORANT Masters Features Day on April 12, 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
This photo features a woman with dark hair, wearing a white shirt, and smiling. She has a bright smile on her face, which makes her appear happy and approachable. The woman is standing in front of a table, which is located to her right side. There is also a chair positioned near the table, and a book can be seen on the table. The overall atmosphere of the scene is warm and inviting.
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 11: Brendan "BcJ" Jensen of Evil Geniuses poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 11, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 07: Tomas "Aloned" Diaz Valiente of Team Aze poses at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Features Day on May 7, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
The icebreaking LNG carrier features an ice-strengthened hull structure, which was fabricated using E-grade high-tensile special steel. Covered with 7cm of steel plates, the bow offers high manoeuvrability in open water and up to 1.5m-thick ice. The stern section is designed to enable navigation in severe ice conditions.
Each vessel has an overall length of 299m, a width of 50m, a depth of 26.5m, and a design draught of 11.7m. The length between perpendiculars is 282m, the deadweight is 80,200t, and the gross register tonnage is 128,806t. The vessel is manned by a crew of 29 members and is capable of carrying 172.600m³ of cargo.
The icebreaking LNG carrier comes with two wheelhouses, arranged in a T-shaped layout, to perform operation and control tasks. One wheelhouse points towards the bow section. It features two external winterised wings on the port and starboard sides for monitoring the ship’s manoeuvres.
The second bridge is situated at the rear of the deck to perform command and control when the ship proceeds astern.
The icebreaking LNG carrier will be powered by a diesel-electric propulsion system consisting of four 12-cylinder and two nine-cylinder Wärtsilä 50DF diesel fuel engines, as well as an electric propulsion system. The nine-cylinder variant generates a rated power of 8,550kW, while the 12-cylinder variant is rated at 11,400kW.
The four-stroke Wärtsilä 50DF engines, which run on LNG and light or heavy fuel oils, deliver a total power output of 64.35MW.
Three Azipod propulsion units, which can rotate through 360°, are installed to power the vessel in arctic conditions. Each Azipod unit, rated at 15MW, is coupled to a rudder propeller.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 16: T1 at the League of Legends World Championship 2023 Swiss Features Day on October 16, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Aiksoon/Riot Games)
With at least 3 marriages in my grandmother's family tree (apparently) conducted within /b/ 1805 and 1853, this most historic bldg. in this historic city features more often than any other I know of as a setting for such events in my mother's family history. (See below.)
- "St John's Kirk is the oldest standing building in Perth, and is one of the most important parish kirks in Scotland. It was first mentioned in 1126, and has played a central part in the life of the burgh. The original building was completed by 1241, when the Kirk was dedicated by the Bishop of St Andrews, but it has undergone many alterations since then. In 1440 a new choir was built, now the oldest remaining part of the building. The nave was rebuilt later in the century.
- "The best known incident to take place [here] was John Knox's sermon against idolatry, preached on May 11, 1559. Some of the congregation (Knox referred to them as "the rascal multitude") took him at his word, stoned the priest, stripped the church of all its fittings and ornaments, then ran to the Greyfriars, Blackfriars, and Charterhouse monasteries and stripped them down to their bare walls. [Wtf?] After the reformation, partitions were erected to divide the church into 3, the East, Middle and West Kirks, each with its own congregation and minister." www.perthcity.co.uk/attractions-and-leisure/buildings-mon... www.scottish-places.info/parishes/parhistory555.html My great x 3 grandparents (Mom's Mom's Mom's Dad's parents) and the bride's parents, my great 4 grandparents, were married in this church, specifically the 'East Church Parish'. (See below.)
- St. John's has the finest collection of post-Reformation church plate in Scotland. And the collection of medieval bells is the largest to have survived in Great Britain.
- Perth's old name 'St. John's town' was a reference to this kirk.
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/perth/stjohnskirk/
- Here's a virtual 3D tour.: youtu.be/SXPN0PN4MSc?si=IBGZ4Ils7mS_-Kch
- The following's only of interest to close family or to those on my Mom's Mom's side. (It's a dry repository of info. re my Mom's Mom's tree.):
My great great grandparents (Mom's Mom's Dad's folks), George McLaren Jr. and Helen/Ellen Marshall, were married in Perth in 1853, and I had written "but not in this" in this space, as they were members of the 'Free Church', a popular denomination at the time, and for although it was only 10 years old in 1853, there were a number of Free church bldg.s in and @ town back then. But George and Helen/Ellen were married by a Rev. Murdoch, and Google A.I. advises that: "In the 1850s, a Rev. John Murdoch was the minister of the Middle Church in Perth [within this kirk, divided into East, Middle and West churches], which adhered to the Church of Scotland." So it seems that George and Helen/Ellen were married in this church, the most recent marriage of 3 conducted within in my grandmother's family tree. (The earlier two are those of my great grandmother's father's parents in 1826 and of his mother's parents in 1805.)
- "The Free Church of Scotland was formed in 1843 when most of the evangelical ministers in the Church of Scotland resigned because of state interference in its internal affairs. ... Under a system known as Patronage, landowners could nominate and present ministers to congregations, irrespective of whether those ministers were evangelical or even whether the congregation wanted them. This was regarded by many as totally unacceptable. ... The result was that in 1843, in what became known as 'The Disruption', [the] new denomination was formed. ... Immediately following the Disruption, Perth - 'where the Scottish Reformation first sprang from thought into action' - had 5 Free Church congregations." www.knoxchurchperth.com/history.html It's a puzzle or a clue that also the marriage record indicates that they were residing in Kippen near Stirling at that time, and that they were married in 'Perth', as they both originally hailed from towns in that county north of the city (but not far north). As discussed below, I suspect they were living in Kippen with or handy to George's mother's kin (a theory) and were married in Perth to accommodate Helen/Ellen's family in Bankfoot not far north of town. (Why not in Bankfoot?)
GREIG - WHITTET - MACKIE
- A pair of great x 3 grandparents (Mom's Mom's Mom's Dad's folks), David Greig and Elizabeth "Whittock" (sic, Whittet), were married in Perth in THIS church a generation earlier in the mid 1820s, specifically in the 'East Church Parish' portion or division of it (as witnessed by church 'elder Robert Duncan'. I don't know of any ancestors in my tree who married younger. The groom was 15 or 16 and already a shoemaker, and the bride was 13, 14 or 15 [most likely 13].) Census records are contradictory as to whether their son Robert, my great great grand-dad, was born in Perth or Edinburgh (most likely Edinburgh; 3 records indicate Perth and 2 Edinburgh, but those 2 are the earliest [neither is a baptismal record]; if he misrepresented his place of birth as Perth, that might be a red flag that he wasn't proud of his childhood or of his roots in Edinburgh), but his Dad, David, the young groom, was born in Edinburgh and the young bride, Elizabeth, was born and/or raised in Inchture, Perthshire in the 'Carse of Gowry', much closer to Dundee than to this city. How did the young couple meet? (Her family was living in Perth [per the registry] when her elder and younger sisters were baptized here in this church, so the family seems to have moved back and forth some. But it's also possible that the parents had commuted from Inchture to baptize their daughters here and that the minister or registrar was careless or assumed the family was Perthian when he wrote those entries in the register [despite his impressive handwriting].) AND Elizabeth's parents, Alexander Whittet and Helen/Nellie Mackie, were married in this church as well another generation earlier by the august Rev. James Scott. artuk.org/discover/artworks/reverend-james-scott-of-perth... My great x 3 grandmother Elizabeth's parents spent some time in Perth, but did one of them have roots here? (More re her parents below.)
- @ 15 yr.s later, the young couple David and Elizabeth Greig and their 6 kids, of whom great great granddad was the eldest, were living in 'the Northback of Canongate' in Edinburgh, a slum then, while great x 3 granddad worked as a 'Bootcloser'. www.watercolourworld.org/collections/8ee47a53-02c0-3ba8-9... 10 yr.s later, he'd become a 'Master' shoemaker employing 2 people (incl. his son, great great granddad, I think, who'd been an apprentice 10 yr.s earlier) and the family had moved to an apt. in the "3rd House Right hand" in Skinner's close on the High st. at its west end near the castle (the ultimate in prime real estate today), the low entrance to which is now covered by a convex mirror.: www.tiktok.com/@andy_highlander/video/7208633282970340614 in the Parish of Tron church. www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/8193/skinners-c... www.google.com/maps/@55.9489106,-3.195509,3a,90y,353.68h,... (The impressive courtyard behind the entrance isn't on google maps.) My great x 3 grandmother Elizabeth's death record indicates both Skinner's Close and 64 High st. further east as her address (?). She was living as a widow in a small apt. at 64 High st. 2 yr.s earlier at age 48.
MENZIES (More below)
- Great great granddad's father-in-law (Mom's Mom's Mom's Mom's Dad), Archibald Menzies, was baptized in the city of Perth @ 20 yr.s earlier, but in 'the Gaelic chapel' built in 1787, which served Highlander immigrants to the city until the mid-19th-cent. Services were conducted in Gaelic there. (Archibald's mother hailed from a coastal town on the Firth of Moray not far east of Inverness [see below], and his father hailed from a gaelophone region in Perthshire, quite possibly in or @ Weem or Dull in north Perthshire.) The bldg.'s been the venue for a succession of night-clubs much more recently ('Electric Whispers' and 'ZOO Nightclub'), but was demolished in 2016. www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/perths-zoo-nightclub-to...
MARSHALL/MARSHAL - CHALMERS (and RORY/ROREY) - CAMERON
- My grandmother and both of her parents were born and raised in Edinburgh, but again 2 of her grandparents, her Dad's folks George McLaren Jr. and Helen/Ellen Marshall, were born in Perthshire. Her Dad's Mom's folks, Joseph Marshall/Marshal and Margaret Chalmers, were married in Auchtergaven aka Bankfoot, a town north of Perth (Margaret's hometown) and lived as newlyweds in Methven, a town only 6-8 clicks west of Perth (Joseph's hometown evidently) in the mid-1820s, but were back living in Bankfoot 15 yr.s later. youtu.be/1S30LCwC6GY?si=WlB0G9vi1xpvINCC While Margaret was raised in that town, she was born in Ireland to a James Chalmers and a Margaret Cameron, and was 3 or 4 years of age when her young family moved to Bankfoot in 1802 or 1803. But an extant baptismal record for a James sired by a David Chalmers (from Bankfoot) and a Margaret Rorey/Rory (from 'Little Dunkeld' youtube.com/shorts/lF9_mipSUVg?si=rvvPQt2hb234gBIE where Niel Gow is buried www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GEcRirHlqE&list=RD3GEcRirHlq... ) in 1771 in Bankfoot (specifically 'Coltrannie', the site of a farm on the outskirts of town and of a tower named Coldrayny or Koldrayny in the 16th cent. www.stravaiging.com/history/castle/coltrannie/ ) seems to be a match for her father. (It's an exact match for his age per his tombstone; he named his first son David; and Chalmers were in abundance in Bankfoot in the 1770s, incl. another James born in 1775. I haven't found any Chalmers in the Irish records, but which are as patchy as they are following the fire in the archives in Dublin in 1922. [Baptisms and marriages of Presbyterians were only recognized in Ireland if performed by a minister of the 'Church of Ireland' until as late as the mid-19th cent. - !] "There were 81 with [that] surname in Ireland in 1911" according to barrygriffin.com.) If the baptismal record's a match (and I think it is), James had travelled to Ireland (to find work? or a wife? see below) where he likely met and married great x 4 grandma Agnes Cameron, sired Margaret and 2 of her sisters there, and then moved his family back to his home in Bankfoot where he and Agnes sired 9 more kids. Cameron is a Scots surname ("There were 860 with [that] surname in Ireland in 1911" per barrygriffin.com), Margaret's parents were Presbyterian and skilled workers in the linen-weaving industry, which in Ireland in @ 1800 was based in 3 co.s in Ulster, Scots-Irish 'plantation country', and 2 contiguous co.s to the south and west, and so it's likely the young Chalmers family was living in Co. Antrim or Down before they moved to Bankfoot. It follows that if Agnes Cameron was Irish, and again it's likely she was, she was almost certainly 'Scots-Irish'.
- My grandmother said that her paternal grandmother Helen/Ellen Marshall was Irish in response to questions and in a tone of admission in a discussion at the table with my Mom in our home in the late 80s. She said her mother "didn't like her mother-in-law because she was Irish", to paraphrase. (She didn't say much about the Irish in Edinburgh, just enough to give the impression that they had a poor reputation as impoverished people who would beg for $. "Irish immigrants were frequently blamed [in early 20th cent. Scotland] for social problems like overcrowding, disease, crime, and drunkenness, even though these issues stemmed from the poverty and poor housing conditions they were forced to endure." [Google A.I.] I'm very proud of my Irish roots on my Dad's side, myself.) My grandmother was honest (e.g., she was candid about her grandmother's death from a tapeworm infection), and had told this to my Mom years earlier evidently. (Mom said that the Scots and Irish are "really the same people, you know".) But she was wrong on two counts. 1. Again, the records reveal that her grandmother was born and raised in Perthshire; rather, it was HER mother Margaret who was born, but not raised, in Ireland, and it seems it was Margaret's mother Agnes who was Irish or 'Scots-Irish' while, again, Margaret's father James was Scots. If so, my grandmother's tree was 1/16th Irish or 'Scots-Irish'. (It's also possible, but much less likely, that Agnes was Scots and married James somewhere in Scotland [she didn't hail from Bankfoot] before moving with him to Ireland to start their young family. James would've done well to travel to Ulster to look for a wife where he would've been a catch in the 1790s for any young Scots-Irish woman with an interest in emigrating. The Scots-Irish experienced economic hardship then, and Presbyterians were subject to religious discrimination in Ulster [c/o the 'Popery Act' of 1704], but not in Scotland [of course].) And 2. Her mother wouldn't have known her mother-in-law in any event as all my grandmother's grandparents had died before her parents were married. The kernel of truth in this might be that my grandmother heard her mother tease her father or gossip about his mother's Irish roots without knowing much about them, or my grandmother might have misapprehended her mother's information. My Uncle Mac believed that the McLaren clan was Gaelic in origin (i.e. from Dal Riata, SW Scotland and considered [then] to have 6th cent. roots in Ireland), while the MacGregors had (the more indigenous) Pictish roots, which might've been a point of pride for my great grandmother, whether or not it's true. And it's common for a parent to promote a sense of pride in their own heritage relative to that of their spouse in the ongoing competition for filial love, which we might consider to be a mild form of 'parental alienation' today (if that's not being unkind to my great grandmother). It's likely my great grandmother would've heard of her husband's great grandmother Agnes Cameron, for his mother Ellen, Agnes' granddaughter, had been taken in by her by the age of 12 and was living with her and 3 of her own daughters in Bankfoot while Agnes was a widow of 60 and continued to work as a 'Linen yard wind', and while Ellen's 2 elder and 4 younger siblings continued to live with her parents (which raises questions). I wonder if Agnes and her daughters (25, 20 and 20) might've been better able to support Ellen than Ellen's parents, whose hands were full with their 6 other kids. But Ellen was working as a 'Linen yard wind' then too (at 12!). Hmmm. I strongly suspect that my great aunt Agnes, my grandmother's eldest sister, was named after her father's hospitable Scots-Irish great grandmother. All the puzzle-pieces fit if so. (Btw, I think it was in that same discussion at the table that my grandmother recalled seeing Chinese women with their tiny bound feet down at the docks in Leith when she was a girl.)
- Great x 3 grandma Margaret's (much) younger sister Helen's middle name was Wyllie, for James Wylie I think who inherited the Airleywright Estate in Auchtergaven in 1806, "created feus in the villages of Bankfoot and Waterloo and offered them to [those farmers or crofters] dispossessed" by his clearances. He was probably the family's landlord. roysofauchtergaven.blogspot.com/ His son Thomas Wylie developed the 'Airleywright Linen Works' in @ 1840 at 'Graham court' in Bankfoot, a town known for its textiles heritage and its once-thriving artisan sector in which this family seems to have prospered. They lived in the 'Airleywright' neighbourhood for a time where, again, Margaret and her mother Agnes worked in the mill as 'Linen yard winds'. The Chalmers erected a large family tombstone in the kirkyard at Bankfoot (covered in 19 names over 3 or 4 generations), the only one I know of that remains standing in Scotland for any of my ancestors outside Edinburgh.
- Again it seems that my great x 3 granddad Joseph Marshall/Marshal (Mom's Mom's Dad's Mom's Dad), a stone-mason, hailed from Perthshire too. A candidate for a match (the only one extant and who appears to be a match) in Perthshire's baptismal records was born or baptized or his family was living "at Ardetie" or "Andetie" (?) in the Parish of Methven (site of 'the Battle of Methven' in 1306 at which Robert the Bruce was ambushed youtu.be/bhwlPToqQ_4?si=nKVNwCs4IoogVkMC youtu.be/xeM_yn7JzJc?si=38MdXIyYKEWdIhPt ), and where he and Margaret sired 2 kids as newlyweds in the 1820s. (So it's a good bet that that baptismal record was his.) The name of the father of that candidate for my great x 3 granddad Joseph was James and the only match for that James baptized in Methven parish per the records was sired by a James Sr. in 1770 in Cloag. ("Cloag Farm Cottages [tourist accommodations] lie just north of the village of Methven" today. www.insiderscotland.com/cloag-farm-cottages-perth/ )
McLAREN (and possibly ELDER) - GRAHAM (and possibly ALEXANDER)
- The name of the town of Clunie in Perthshire features in my family history as my great uncle Mac maintained that his grandfather George McLaren, the manager of a tannery in Edinburgh, was the son of "the Miller of Clunie" and had moved to the nation's capital as a young man to find work. Rather, George was born in 1827 or early '28 in Logierait, a small village at the confluence of the Tay and the Tummel a 20 min. drive or so NW of Clunie (although it IS home to a mill at the confluence) to a George McLaren Sr., "Farm servant" (not a less lowly miller), and a Jane Graham.
- Of 13 baptisms of infants named George McLaren/MacLaren in Perthshire /b/ 1773 and 1813, 6 took place within 40 miles of Logierait, 1 in Bendochy at 23.5 miles, 4 in Perth (where the minister records the name in the registry with 'Mac') at 22.4 miles, and the closest at 13.7 miles is ... Ta-dum! ... Clunie. (No such baptisms were held in Inverness-shire, Aberdeenshire, Banffshire nor in Moray in that period. There were 5 in Stirlingshire, but none in Kippen or closer to Kippen than 10 miles. [See below.]) So the George who hailed from Clunie (with his twin William) takes on a certain interest, although he appeared in July, 1811 and would've had to marry in his mid-teens, quite young, to sire George Jr. by 1827 or early '28. But his age might be a better fit in light of the discovery of the baptism of a Janet Graham in Kippen in 1810. I wondered why George Jr. and his bride Helen/Ellen would register their marriage (conducted in Perth) in Kippen, Stirlingshire in 1853, and whether George Jr. had any roots and support there? (Helen/Ellen didn't.) Scots were clannish by necessity and George Jr. led the life of an 'Ag Lab Ploughman' at age 23 (see below), two years before his marriage. If the Janet Graham baptised in May, 1810 is a match for George Jr.'s mother (she was only a year older than George McLaren of Cluny, and the only Jane/Janet Graham(e) born in Kippen /b/ 1787 and 1813), then George Jr. and Helen/Ellen would've had kin in and @ Kippen and enjoyed their support as newlyweds in 1853. (That said, I've found no marriage record /b/ George Sr. and his wife Jane/Janet, nor any other record that links them aside from George Jr.'s stat. death record, and while a match /b/ this Janet and George from Clunie would explain their presence in Kippen in 1853, it begs the question how did Janet from Kippen and George from Crieffe [see below] meet [if they did; Crieff is 27 miles from Kippen], and at such a young age. But the coincidence of looking for a Jane/Janet Graham in Kippen and finding one ["the names Jane and Janet were often considered completely interchangeable in Scottish naming traditions of {the early 19th cent.}", Google A.I.], and one so close in age to the George McLaren from Clunie, both of an age to sire George Jr., is impressive. Btw, Janet and Jane Graham were very common names, with 256 baptisms across Scotland /b/ 1778 and 1813. More re this Janet Graham below.)
- The George McLaren baptized in Clunie in 1811 was sired by a David McLaren, a farmer from 'Chapelton of Clunie' (where the ruins of a 10th cent. Christian church have been excavated) and one Elisabeth Elder who hailed from Clunie (Mom's Mom's Dad's Dad's Dad's folks, if George McLaren of Clunie's a match). Chapelton was in "the Parish of Moulin" (French for mill - !), it's marked on an old map on-line next to a curve in the River Tummel as 'Wester Clunie', and which appears to be at the site of an old dam, a great spot for a mill, currently that of the modern hydro-development (1950) where the 'Clunie Memorial' arch stands today highland-discovery.com/point-of-interest/clunie-memorial-... (a coincidence as I stopped to tour it en route south to the town of Clunie in my search for the 'Miller of Clunie'; read my write-up for the photo of the Dicks in Clunie). So not only did the George McLaren of 1811 hail from Clunie, his father David was a farmer in the parish of Moulin, i.e. 'Mill', and his farm in 'Chapelton of Clunie' would've been next or very handy to a famous local mill.)
- These (good) candidates for my great x 4 grand-parents, David McLaren and Elisabeth Elder, married in Nov. 1806. It's likely the ceremony was held in the old medieval or Reformation-era kirk there, fragments of which, including a red sandstone portal, "have been rebuilt in a small structure that probably served as a 'Watch house' to the south of the present church [1840]". arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/corpusofscottishchurches/site.php?i... See that portal at the 1:42 min. pt. in this.: youtu.be/sT_ygdTLfpg?si=-u9getZBQlhT2MWI
- It must be a clue (re the McLaren branch of my tree) that in 1851 at the age of 23 (two yr.s before his marriage) George Jr. was living and working as an 'Ag Lab Ploughman' on a farm in 'East Dowald', Crieffe, home to an Alexander McLaren ("47", a farmer of 133 acres employing 5 Labourers) and his wife Isabella Sharp (35), his sister-in-law Charlotte, his 2 sons and 2 daughters (9 - 3) and 2 servants, all (except the eldest servant) born in Logierait incl. the 3 yr. old. It's not unlikely that Alexander was George Jr.'s uncle or a relatively wealthy cousin. (More re Alexander below.)
- Of 36 David McLaren/MacLarens baptised /b/ 1755 and 1792, 10 were born in Perthshire, and good candidates include one sired by a David McLaren Sr. and a Mary Panton in the city of Perth in 1778 (David Sr. and Mary married in June 1770 in Cargill), and one born in the town of Dowally (@ 5 km.s S-SE of Logierait) to a John MacLaren and a Margret (sic) Conacher in June, 1794. It could be significant that an Alexander McLaren was sired in "Pitnacree" (in the Parish of Logierait) in 1807 by an Alexander Sr., "Wright" (his profession) of Pitnacree and a Marjory Connacher/Conacher of "Balleyallonoch", both married in June 1803 in "Logierait". Alexander McLaren of 'East Dowald', Crieffe was reported to be 47 in 1851, not 44. But then "finding discrepancies (e.g., a 4-year difference across censuses) is normal for Scottish genealogy from [the early 19th cent.], reflecting a time when exact age wasn't always known or recorded accurately." (Gougle A.I.)
- Could the John McLaren (father of a David) of Dowally and Alexander Sr. of Pitnacree have been brothers? 170 John McLarens were baptised /b/ 1745 and 1780 in Perthshire, 13 in Logierait. (!) 78 Alexander McLarens were baptized /b/ 1755 and 1790 in Perthshire, 7 in Logierait. Only one couple sired both a John (in 1768) and an Alexander Jr. (in 1770) in Logierait, namely Alexander McLaren Sr. (1st of III?) and a Catharine McDONALD (if there weren't 2 couples with the same names in the same parish. An "Alexr McLaren and [a] Kathrine McDonald" were betrothed on June 12, 1761.) Again a John McLaren married a Conacher in Dowally and an Alexander married a Conacher in Pitnacree (the same spelling of the surname, candidates for these Conacher cousins or sisters hailed from Blair Atholl, a village < 10 miles NW of Moulin; there are several other variations of the name in other towns in the area), which might or might not be coincidental (as Scots were clannish).
- Candidates: A John Conacher and a Janet Stewart sired a Margaret Conacher on Jan. 16, 1780, and a Charles Conacher ("Conchair" per his marriage record) and a Grissel Robertson sired a Margaret in July 16, 1780. (Both would be a bit young, too young I Iike to think, to bear a David McLaren by June, 1794.) A Charles Conacher sired a Marjory on Jan. 19, 1783 and a John Conacher and a Margt. Robertson sired a Marjory on May 11, 1785. It's likely that Margret and Marjory were cousins in any event.
- Elder was a common surname in Scotland in the late 18th cent. 261 females with the name were born /b/ 1760 and 1792 in Scotland, 22 with the name Elizabeth/Elisabeth, 9 in Perthshire. 2 were born in Clunie, both sired by a William Elder (mother's name n/a for both) in Feb., 1767 and in March, 1780 (the 2nd is the best candidate for my great x 4 grandmother), and no others hailed from closer than Kinnoull, 17 miles away. 22 William Elders were baptized in Perthshire /b/ 1705 and 1766.
William Elder was sired by either a William Elder Sr. and an Elizabeth Man in Oct., 1742, or by a Thomas Elder and a Kathrine Anderson in April, 1737.
- Again, a good candidate for George McLaren Sr.'s bride, my great x 3 grandmother Jane Graham, is Janet Graham, a farmer's daughter from the Drum farm near Gargunnock (where her parents George Graham and Margaret Alexander were married in the lovely kirk there [built in 1628, "altered" in 1774]), a town in Stirlingshire @ 13 clicks west of Stirling and @ 70 SW of Perth as the crow flies, and who had family and roots in the area. youtu.be/wg52fNYHhWQ?si=TQPdFcufAa9Tmyo2 If this candidate for Jane is a match, it follows that there's also a good chance that @ 1/8 of my grandmother's heritage was in Stirlingshire. 16 children with the surname Elder were born in Clunie /b/ 1750 and 1800, impressively all were sired by a William (or 2 Williams?). One, a Margaret, was born to William Elder and an Elizabeth MAN in Oct. 1757, the only one of the 16 for whom the mother's name is indicated.
- It's probably a coincidence that the plot for the 'Grahams of Meiklewood' has such prominence in the kirk's cemetery in Gargunnock (seen in the video in the last link and here: www.pressreader.com/uk/stirling-observer/20200219/2819259... ), with carvings of helmets on its elaborate tombstones. In fact, in contrast, the paternal grandmother of this candidate for Jane, one Katharin Haldin [sic], was born "in fornication". Hers is the only one of 26 entries on a page in the local registry of baptisms without a pair of witnesses, although her paternal grandfather or uncle acted as a 'sponsor' for her baptism. (See, it's the details that make genealogy interesting.)
WHITTET - MACKIE
- My grandmother's other grandparents (her Mom's folks) were born in Edinburgh, or at least her Mom's Mom, Christina Menzies, was. Again, her Mom's Dad, Robert Greig, might've been born in Perth but it's more likely he was born in Edinburgh. And again her grandmother's father, Archibald Menzies (her Mom's Moms' Dad) was born in Perth and was baptized there in 'the Gaelic chapel', while her grandfather's mother, Elizabeth Whittet (her Mom's Dad's Mom), was from Inchture, a town in SE Perthshire, she being the 13 or 14 yr. old bride who was married in this kirk, as were her parents before her, although her elder and younger sisters were baptized in this kirk as well (?), all in the first few decades of the 19th cent. My grandmother's great x 3 grandfather James Mackie, a weaver (her Mom's Dad's Mom's Mom's Dad), lived, worked and died in Dundee in Angus, but there's conflicting evidence as to whether he sired my great x 4 grandmother Helen/Nelly Mackie in Dundee or in another county. His daughter and son-in-law both declared in a census taken in Dundee that they were born out of county (ie. not in Angus), but his daughter's death record indicates that she was born in Dundee and what might be the death record for her husband (only if there was an error in recording one digit in his age at death) indicates that he was born there too. If so, why did they marry in Perth? If not, her father James might have moved across county lines to work in Dundee's mills as so many did at @ the end of the 18th cent. One candidate for Helen/Nelly's baptismal record dates from Dec. 25 in Fintray near Aberdeen, but for a child (born in Braeside) that was a year or 2 too young. The only baptism with a match for her DoB (or w/in 10 yr.s) in Angus (sired by a tailor and former soldier in the Sutherland Fencibles and a mother from Old Marchar [ie. "Old Aberdeen"] just north of Aberdeen) has an unlikely variation of her surname. It's more likely that her baptism record didn't survive, as so many didn't. She and her husband Alexander Whittet married, lived, and worked in Perth and lived and worked in Inchture, Perthshire allegedly (near Dundee), until sometime /b/ 1825 and 1840 when they moved (or returned?) to Dundee (per the said census) to live and work there in their 50s and 60s with 4 of their children (all younger than Elizabeth, Mom's Mom's Mom's Dad's Mom, their sister) and where they lived at one point on the 'West Wynd'. Alexander (again Mom's Moms' Mom's Dad's Mom's Dad) worked as both a 'Weaver' and as a 'Cattle Dealer', and his wife Helen/Nelly died a widow at 64 in 1851 of 'Decay of Nature'. Her sons and their families lived in a house on 'Mid Wynd', the next street over from 'West Wynd', in the 1850s. www.google.ca/maps/@56.4560251,-2.9889498,3a,75y,343.02h,... (West Wynd meets Perth rd. only @ 200 m.s west of an interesting old pub, 'The George Orwell' with Orwell memorabilia. [Orwell had no connection to Dundee.]) Those 4 kids all lived out their final days in Dundee as well, but I've found no evidence that they had roots in Dundee that predate their mother Helen's parents, nor that they didn't.
URQUHART (and possibly McINTOSH)
- My grandmother's great great grandfather, John Menzies, her Mom's Mom's Dad's Dad, was serving with the 'Perth militia' and was stationed at Fort George on the Firth of Moray near Inverness youtu.be/qxTu7j9fZjw?si=9LC1nAJbBWCpdqPe youtu.be/7N01FQtpkMM?si=mrTB_487aFWA2V2H youtu.be/4a_OQA1GtBM?si=AUfXGpIkDX0F72WK when he met and married my great x 4 grandmother Margaret Urquhart who was living in Ardersier then, a town that serviced the fort. The best candidates for the infant Margaret in the baptismal records were baptized in towns not far east of Inverness. One would think the best would match other more reliable records (reliable in other respects) as to the date of birth, particularly when a competing candidate is a year younger. (Why would a woman claim to be a year older than she is?) The best match for Margaret in surviving records on that basis (i.e. she was born in the same year as that indicated in the later records), and in light of the geography, hails from Forres in Moray, had a mother with the maiden surname Anderson, and has traceable roots in and @ that town that stretch back to at least the early 18th cent. But Forres might have been just east of the Gàidhealtachd (Scots-Gaelic territory), and both Margaret and her husband John were gaelophones. Another candidate in the baptismal records was born in the Parish of Petty, very handy and much closer to Ardersier, and more reliably gaelophone. That Margaret would've turned the age indicated in her death record and in a final census record a little more than a month following the date of her death. (Note that people were less likely to be certain of their age in those less literate times.) She was one of 6 siblings, the first 3 of whom were baptized in the Parish of 'Croy and Dalcross', and the next 3 (or 4, she had an elder sister who was also named Margaret and who I assume died in infancy), incl. Margaret, were baptized in the Parish of Petty. Her mother was a McIntosh from "Fleeming town" or 'Flemington', or most likely Balspardon (according to one record, and which is more specific), @ 1 km. NW of 'Flemington loch' today, only 2 - 3 km.s SE of Ardersier youtu.be/WwV7tDKqKkQ?si=AsuV2L872CKlizxH , and only 5 or 6 clicks as the crow flies NW of Cawdor castle of MacBeth fame. ("All hail Macbeth. Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor." youtu.be/13WWN6rhxM4?si=lt9a27muvANhCce5 youtu.be/kEidcxBTu0E?si=fTSrJcQM3L4j9M-J youtube.com/shorts/ZFeKGImucfM?si=eejWhFHE-G9WN5w- ) The best candidate for her father in baptismal records was 14 yr.s older than her mother (and so not such a good candidate?) and was born to parents living in the "Miltown of Kilraick [or Kilrailk]" near Croy (very coincidentally as my Dad's Mom's Mom's Mom's Dad's Mom's Mom, Ann Calder, was born in that same small town in 1774 a few decades later). The mother of that (unlikely?) candidate for Margaret's father in the baptismal records was also a McIntosh. The Margaret from Forres had 4 siblings, only one of whom has a name in the marriage records in Ardersier, although one of the 'witnesses' at her wedding has the same surname but a different first name than that of her father or of either of her brothers (in the available baptismal records). By contrast, the Margaret from the parish of Petty has 3 siblings out of 5 with candidates in the marriage records in Ardersier (although their first names are common), so 4 out of 6 altogether incl. Margaret. She was living in that town in her late teens when she was engaged to be married, and it's most likely that she was living with her family then. The father of that candidate for Margaret was a weaver and might have made the move of only several km.s NW with his wife and kids for work. (Again, Ardersier services Fort George.) It's likely that that candidate for Margaret was baptized in the old kirk at Petty, replaced in 1836 by the current structure, closed today, and which adjoins the fascinating mausoleum of the 'lairds' of Clan McIntosh (1687-'88), a fixer-upper today. That clan was a prominent member of the Clan Chattan (Cat) confederacy, and twin, antique, iron sculptures of long, thin cats stretch up poles on their hind legs like brackets at either side of the entrance, which is boarded up. www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/905299 I now think that that candidate for Margaret, the one baptized in the kirk that stood next to that mausoleum in Petty in the 1780s, is the better candidate (of those in the surviving records) to be my great x 4 grandmother, for what it's worth, and if so she would've had deep roots there in McIntosh country.
- Re an ancient funeral custom at Petty known as 'the Petty Step'.: "It was the custom of the people of Petty to run, not walk, at funerals. It appears the custom was given up owing to some of the bearers having tripped while carrying the coffin of an old reputed witch-woman to the churchyard and the fear that her curse might befall them. The origin of the custom can be traced to a superstition that the spirit of the last person interred in the cemetery had to keep watch and ward at the kirkyard gate until relieved by the subject of the next funeral. When two funerals took place on the same day, it was considered lucky to be the first to cross the threshold, hence the haste at Petty funerals. The custom seems to have been abandoned by 1841." www.cushnieent.com/new_moray_churches/inverness_deanery/p...
- youtu.be/MtYriTAjHZc?si=7rl71j9uyqvK_xxX
MENZIES
- The amazing 16th-cent. Menzies castle is in north Perthshire not far west of the A9. www.youtube.com/watch?v=INnN8JdAn98 (Menzies castle is also home to the McGregor museum, which is coincidental as my great great grandmother, a Menzies, married a Greig and the Greigs are a sept of the McGregor clan.) It might be trite to say that as Margaret's husband John, my great x 4 granddad, was serving in the 'Perth militia' and as the Menzies clan is based in Perthshire, it's likely he hailed from there too. He named his eldest son Archibald, and I've found a cluster of baptismal records for infants in his generation sired by men named Archibald Menzies, which could be significant as it was common in Scotland to name one's son after one's father or grandfather, in the historic town of Dull, Perthshire only @ 3 km.s west of Castle Menzies. Then again, that name might've gained popularity amongst Menzies in the 18th cent. in honour of 'Chieftain Capt. Archibald Menzies of Culdares' who led an expeditionary Jacobite force in 1715, but was captured and taken to London for trial on charges of high treason and rebellion. His two sons, "being handsome young men with fair complexions, disguised themselves in women's clothes, and pretending to be [his] daughters, were admitted to visit him in prison. [?] On being left with him in the condemned cell, their affection for their father was so great that they proposed that one should exchange clothes with their father, and that he should escape in that disguise. But this he nobly and peremptorily refused. ... News of his noble conduct coming to the knowledge of the Government, he received an unconditional pardon [lol], returned to his native Highlands along with his two sons, and lived 60 yr.s afterwards in his native Glenlyon - an honourable specimen of a genuine old Highland chieftain and patriarch, beloved by his own clan and people, and respected by all within the range of his acquaintance. He died in 1776." (Stewart's 'Sketches of the Highlanders', p. 46) Glenlyon is < 10 km.s west of Dull as the crow flies. Another famous Archibald Menzies, the son of 'Chieftain John Menzies of Shian and Glenquiech' aka "Muckle John Menzies", was a Jacobite commander who "call[ed] out Clan Menzies for Prince Charlie, ... [and] is the hero of Sir Walter Scott in his Waverley, where he is called by his Gaelic appellation the "Vich Ian Vohr of Glennaquoich [aka] the son of big John Menzies of Glenquiech." He marched on London with Prince Charlie and fought against the Duke of Cumberland at Clifton, where he was captured and then executed at Carlisle. electricscotland.com/webclans/m/redwhitebookofme00menz.pdf
- Of 3 candidates extant for my great x 4 grandfather's baptism ([a 4th in Dull was ruled out by the book in the last link] 3 only if the death record which seems to be a match for him IS a match and accurate), 1 was in Caputh where there's only 1 candidate for the baptism of his father (John, son of John Sr.) in that town within 55 years prior, and 2 (sired by Gomery and Robert) were in Weem, the home of Castle Menzies, only 1 of which has a father (Robert, "begotten in fornication") with candidates for his baptism in that town, 8 in total, incl. 1 Alexander and 1 John (the names of great x 3 granddad Archibald's brothers). A candidate one year younger than the death-record-match was baptized in Dull (which is linked with sister communities Boring, Oregon and Bland, New South Wales in 'the Triumvirate of Tedium' btw), where 30 candidates for the baptism for his father Duncan are extant, incl. 2 Alex'rs, 8 Johns and 2 Archibalds, and where the name Archibald Menzies seems to assert itself. Consider: One candidate 2 yr.s younger was born in Kenmore, 5 km.s SW of Dull; 9 candidates for his father Donald were sired in Dull /b/ 1724 and 1764, 2 by Johns and 1 by an Archibald. And one 3 years younger was sired in Dull by an Archibald, and whose 4 siblings incl. a Donald and an Archibald Jr.; Archibald Sr. "in Monzie par." married Betty Anderson in 'Monzievaird and Strowan' near Crieff, @ 30 km.s south of Dull. Although that Archibald was listed as "in Monzie par.", he and Betty moved to Dull as newlyweds, which I suspect was that Archibald's home town. Many families of Menzies still live in the vicinity of the castle in Weem and Dull. Any roots in that area on that branch of my tree must run deep.
- Here's a tour of the Menzies Mausoleum in the Old Kirk of Weem (less than 500 m.s from the Castle).: youtu.be/_GPpuWCKawk?si=mDmONXlsGH-EbpDC (My grandmother said "It's pronounced 'Mingis'" [Menzies], which this guide demonstrates. [Here's a short re the emergence of the letter Z in the anglicization of Scots Gaelic names.: youtube.com/shorts/kGDMftHBbTg?si=99ypPX3RaFlBpNhh ]) Here's a discussion of famous, very old stone crosses from Dull.: youtu.be/-qPRQqXf3wE?si=ZE5l5Q-9i7AthNAL Dull was once home to a legendary 7th or 8th cent. Columban monastery and kirk, one of the earliest in Scotland, founded by St. Adomnán, an abbot of Iona and the biographer of Columba, who once cast the evil spirit of the plague into a rock and who was buried at Dull. (His famous biography of Columba includes a reference to one Arturius, a Scotti prince who died in an important and legendary battle in Argyll and who the BBC's Michael Wood presents as a candidate for the inspiration for the legend of King Arthur. Watch from the 45:30 min. pt. to 50:00 in ep. 4 of 'In Search of Myths and Heroes': youtu.be/RiKEAX4Xp4Q?si=ud7pG9WmDFIpytNN www.electricscotland.com/history/ascreen.pdf ) And here's the amazing 'Menzies monument' (1616).: youtu.be/0fSPaRXHr4E?si=W2XuHaQcwLxds9oR
- Here Jag Betty, a vlogger with charisma up the yin-yang, visits Dull and even finds the gravestone of one Archibald Menzies at the 1:55 min. pt.: youtu.be/agz19ey35kA?si=4qH-dX06UDViSo0e He and his brother 'Bro' are famous, written up in 'The Courier' www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/outdoors/2713317/strang... but this episode of his vlog has had only 136 views (as of Oct. 29, '24) since July, 2015, more PROOF that 'Bald and Bankrupt' and other less likeable types with so many millions of views per video (? - and who spew propaganda from time to time re who to vote for, etc.) in an echo-chamber of vloggers, are spooks. Youtube's in on it of course. Sigh. (I like a song Jag wrote and sings in one of his videos.: "We're going to the moon. It won't be very soon. We're going to the moon. ...")
- So in conclusion it seems likely that 6 (or more) of my grandmother's 16 great great grandparents hailed from and had roots in Perthshire, 2 were from Stirlingshire (I think), 2 lived out their later years in Angus (in Dundee) and might have been born there and had roots there, or hailed from further north in Aberdeenshire or west in Perthshire (?), 1 was from Inverness-shire or Moray further north (more likely Inverness-shire I think, possibly with roots in 'Croy and Dalcross' on her father's side), and 1 (Scots-Irish) moved to her husband's home in Perthshire as a young mother from somewhere in the north of Ireland, likely Co. Antrim or Co. Down in Ulster. 4 or 5 of those 5 or 6 (of 12) who weren't originally from Perthshire either settled there or passed through and stayed there for a while, in this city in particular. (The 2 exceptions are the 2 who [I think] were in Stirlingshire, although their daughter lived in Perthshire.) The other 4 of the 16 had 2 children /b/ them who lived in Edinburgh; one, David Greig, was born there but married in Perth (in this church, the very young groom; I write a bit more about him here: www.flickr.com/photos/97924400@N00/9572386491/in/datepost... ), but I don't know where those 4 were from. I suspect that 2 (Margaret McKenzie's parents) were victims of the Highland Clearances and possibly (or likely?) hailed from as far north as Ross (McKenzie country). Again, although Margaret bore her daughter in Edinburgh, there's a good chance she was a gaelophone as she married one. The more distant roots are a moving target, of course, on all branches. My grandmother and her siblings knew that their Dad's Dad hailed from north Perthshire, but I don't think they knew that they had as many roots and as much family history in this county and in the city of Perth as they did. (I had no clue at all when I took this.)
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBrAvAlvPxc
- This article, written in the 1880s (and linked to above re the 'East church' in St. John's Kirk) is excellent and thorough, but emphasizes how many wonderful bldg.s have been demolished in the city over the centuries, and that little stands today relative to its history.: www.scottish-places.info/parishes/parhistory555.html
- A history of Perth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3TYNShXSzg
- 'Traditions of Perth' re St. John's Kirk: electricscotland.com/history/perth/19TraditionsOfPerthPag...
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Image ID: expn3417, Voyage To Inner Space - Exploring the Seas With NOAA Collect
Location: Puerto Rico, Guayanilla Canyon East Wall
Photo Date: 20150416T155714Z
Credit: NOAA OKEANOS EXPLORER Program, Oceano Profundo 2015; Exploring Puerto Rico's Seamounts, Trenches, and Troughs
USAA Real Estate Company built the 397-room Four Seasons Resort and Club located in Irving, Texas in 1984 including two golf courses. USAA Real Estate also built the Westin La Cantera Resort & Spa in San Antonio. The 9 story Spanish colonial-style building with dun colored brick exterior and arched windows was designed by HKS, Inc. HKS also was the architect for the Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay and the Ritz Carlton Bachelor Gulch. The sports and golf club component opened in 1983 and the hotel opened in 1986.
The property features two restaurants and three lounges, two 18-hole golf courses, eight outdoor and four indoor tennis courts, all of which are equipped for nighttime play, three outdoor pools and one indoor pool, and a 6,000-sq.-ft. Sports Club equipped with state-of-the-art cardiovascular and weight-training equipment and squash and racquetball courts. In addition, it has a 14,000-sq.-ft. full-service spa featuring a broad menu of spa services, private treatment rooms, a relaxation area, and an outdoor spa pool. The hotel's meeting space contains 24 meeting rooms and approximately 37,506 sq. ft. of indoor meeting space, which can accommodate large groups of up to 800 people.
The Resort has two 18-hole golf courses: the Cottonwood Valley Golf Course and the TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas Golf Course, originally designed in 1982 by golf course consultant Jay Morrish along with two professional golfers, Byron Nelson and Ben Crenshaw. It was redesigned in 2008 by D.A Weibring, another professional golfer, and Steve Wolfard. The course is and will be through 2018 the annual host to the PGA Tour's HP Byron Nelson Championship. The courses are not open to the public--only to members, member guests, and hotel guests.
In 2005 under the direction of Craig Reid, the Four Seasons' general manager, the resort built 40 new villa guest rooms facing the 18th hole of the Tournament Players Course. A 1-acre lake was also added to the 18th "stadium" hole. Reid later was Four Seasons' president of Hotel operation for the Americas region and more recently CEO of Auberge Resorts.
Frederick Wehba, chairman and co-founder of BentleyForbes a Los Angeles real estate investment firm, announced the acquistion of the Four Seasons Resort in 2006. The hotel was appraised in 2006 at $229 million. BentleyForbes took out a $183 million secured mortgage from U.S. Bank NA and a $39 million mezzanine loan from Capri Capital. By January 2010 the appraised value of the hotel dropped to $117 million. In April 2010 the mezzanine holder, Capri Capital, foreclosed on BentleyForbes' hotel asset. It was bad publicity for the Four Seasons as it was likely largest local hotel foreclosure ever. Capri, a Chicago based real estate investment firm, held an auction in April 2010. No bidder offered more than what US Bank NA and Capri was owed. The new formal ownership group was now 4150 N MacArthur Blvd Holdings, a limited partnership controlled by Washington DC based CWCapital Asset Management. CWC aggressively asset managed the property from that time, focusing on revenue management and controlling expenses and preparing the only AAA-rated Five Diamond resort in Texas for sale. Toronto based Four Seasons runs the hotel - it's contract to manage the property was extended by 75 years in 2007 and runs through 2082. That meant the resort would not be forced to curtail any of its many top-of-the-line amenities.
In April, 2014 New York-based Blackstone,a major U.S. real estate investor, which has a significant stake in Hilton Worldwide Holdings, acquired the Four Seasons hotel (now 431 rooms) for $150 million from CW Capital, who represented the securitized debt holders on the property. Blackstone is noted for its 11 year ownership of Hilton Worldwide Holdings. Blackstone’s profits from its ownership of Hilton were reportedly triple its investment.
Dirk Burghartz is the Regional Vice President and General Manager of Four Seasons Resort at Las Colinas. He was the former GM at Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC. He replaced Luis Argote, who will manage two new Four Seasons properties in Bogota, Columbia.
Since 1983 (35 years) Irving, Texas and the Four Seasons Los Colinas hosted the Byron Nelson. The PGA Golf tournement, which attracts 250,000 people and has raised more than $100 million for charities sponsored by the Salesmanship Club of Dallas, has been Irving’s largest annual economic event for three decades. The tournament pumps $40 million annually into Irving. The Irving Convention and Visitors figures show a $4.8 million publicity value from the Nelson, including four days of national TV exposure. AT&T, which moved its corporate headquarters to Dallas from San Antonio in 2008, and seeking to enhance its influence in the professional golf world, built the $50 million public/private Trinity Forest Golf Club in partnership with the city of Dallas. Trinity Forest Golf Club was created explicitly to attract prestigious golf championships back to Dallas. Trinity Forest is the new home of the PGA Tour’s AT&T Byron Nelson effective May, 2018.
In 2017 the hotel's longtime restaurant Cafe on the Green underwent a makeover to become LAW restaurant (Land, Air, Wings). The Outlaw Taproom opened in the space formerly known as Bar 19.
In November 2018 The Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas was purchased by an affiliate of Manhattan-based Extell Development for $235 million, or about $580,000 per unit. Since 2014, the 431-room hotel had been owned by a company set up by Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. Four years ago Blackstone paid an estimated $150 million for the foreclosed property. Since then, the hotel has had more than $30 million in upgrades. New owner Extell Development is a major New York property owner and developer that has hotels including the Four Seasons in Vail, the Intercontinental in Boston and the Park Hyatt New York and W Hotel Times Square. A previous owner was BentleyForbes who purchased the hotel in 2006 for $230 million.
Compiled by Dick Johnson, November 2018
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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 12: Trent "trent" Cairns of The Guard poses for the VALORANT Masters Features Day on April 12, 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
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An equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) sits atop Meridian Hill Park, albeit without her sword, which was stolen. Washington, DC.
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Key recognition features: red or orange markings on the abdomen, hairy underside & legs, pronotum with strongly indented side keels. All grasshoppers are very variably marked & coloured, and colour should only be used very cautiously as an identification feature. But this female could be described as the 'default' form ie a straw / grey colour. This species prefers dry habitat & avoids lush vegetation. Notice how well matched she is to her background. The individual in the inset is a stronger mix of ochre & brown.