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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💔Royal Road to Fotheringhay💔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

25th September Mary Queen of Scots is brought to Fotheringhay Castle. Here she would spend the remainder of her life.

Mary, who had spent much of her 18 years of imprisonment at Sheffield Castle and Sheffield Manor, spent her final months at Fotheringhay, where she was tried and convicted of treason. In this time it was used as a state prison. She attended her own trial in the Great Hall on 5 October 1586, which lasted two days. After waiting over two months for Elizabeth I of England to officially sign her death warrant, Mary was told the sentence would be carried out the day before her ex*****on. She spent her final night praying in the castle's small chapel. She was beheaded on a scaffold in the castle's great hall on 8 February 1587. 🥹

📸 Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 at Fotheringhay Castle William Baxter Collier Fyfe



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📜Saint Margaret of Scotland – The Pearl of Scotland

📜Saint Margaret of Scotland (c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was Queen of Alba from 1070 to 1093 as the wife of King Malcolm III. Remembered as “The Pearl of Scotland”, she was a devout Christian whose legacy of faith and charity left a lasting mark on Scotland.

📜Born in Hungary to the English prince Edward the Exile and Agatha, Margaret was the granddaughter of King Edmund Ironside of England. After years abroad, she returned to England in 1057, but following the Norman Conquest her family fled north. In 1070, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland. Their union tied the royal houses of Scotland and England, and she became the mother of three (possibly four) Scottish kings and Matilda of Scotland, who later became Queen of England.

📜Margaret was renowned for her piety and acts of charity. She established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to St Andrews, which gave South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names. Her influence helped reform the Scottish Church and court life.

📜She died in 1093 at Edinburgh Castle, just days after learning of the deaths of her husband and son in battle. In 1250, Pope Innocent IV canonised her, and she was reinterred in Dunfermline Abbey. Though her relics were later lost during the Reformation and French Revolution, her memory as a symbol of faith, charity, and unity endures.

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Free Online Mid West States Immigration Records - Updated

Looking for Immigrant ancestors? 205 total links to Free Collections, which include Passenger lists, alien declarations, ship manifests, etc. Immigration Records are chock-full of very useful genealogy information.

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