Wednesday, May 09, 2012



The seal of the burgh of Culross in Fife, Scotland. Depicted is the ancient Abbey of Culross, whose legendary founder, St. Serf, or Servanus, is seen in the foreground.
The photograph is of the Old Kirk of Tulliallan, where, from about 1730 when they settled in the parish, until 1825 when a new church replaced it, my forebears (male line) were baptised and wed. The kirkyard will hold their remains, but not their names. Poor then, poor now.
The neighbouring parish of Culross is where my kin were settled before the move to the burgh of Kincardine in Tulliallan parish. Since then we've always been town-dwellers, that's over a quarter of a millenium. "Town air makes free" was the German proverb.

(Photograph by Ms. Marion M. of the Kincardine Local History Society)

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