Parish Graveyard Forteviot Strathearn Perthshire Scotland
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Channel: tourscotland · 2018 · Travel & Events
Tour Scotland travel video of a walk around the parish graveyard in Forteviot on ancestry visit to Strathearn, Perthshire. Forteviot, Scottish Gaelic: Fothair Tabhaicht, is a village on the south bank of the River Earn between Dunning and Perth. The parish church is first recorded about the year 1172; the present building dates from about 1778. The present village was rebuilt in the 1920s by John Alexander Dewar, 1st Baron Forteviot of the Dewar's whisky family. There are four wargraves here; three are those of the four Bonthrone brothers who died in the Great War and are buried in a row.The other brother who also fell is buried at Rouen in France.
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