Although the King of Rock and Roll could solely briefly have touched down in Scotland for little greater than an hour in 1960, it seems his Scottish connections really go a lot deeper. It seems that Elvis Aaron Presley's household could initially have been from Aberdeenshire.
The music and movie star, recognized for his unmistakable voice and infectious charisma, could by no means have carried out right here however for hundreds of followers, he nonetheless positively left his mark. With the legend's life presently being revisited with a brand new movie starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, Aberdeen Reside has taken a glance again on the work of Scots creator Allan Morrison, who, in 2004 lastly traced Elvis' roots again to a little bit village within the north east.
In researching Elvis' lineage for his ebook the Elvis Prophecy, the author mentioned he was in Sarasota in America in 2000 when he found the star's ancestor Andrew Presley was really from Scotland, and the primary Presley to cross the Atlantic means again in 1745.
Additional digging again in Edinburgh discovered that the Andrew who settled in North Carolina in 1745, was initially from Lonmay, a small village six miles south of Fraserburgh.
Information present Andrew's father, with whom he shared a primary identify, married Elspeth Leg within the village in 1713. And the Presley clan's lineage in the US will be adopted proper up till the singer's mother and father married two years earlier than his start in 1935.
Morrison additionally traced many kin who lived in Aberdeenshire all through the 18th and nineteenth centuries. The author's findings have been a revelation to followers within the northeast who had seen devotees within the west of Wales and Paisley lay claims to their hero for many years.
Throughout his stint with the US Military, when he touched down at Prestwick Airport, he could solely have been in Scotland for 90 minutes or so – the one time set foot on UK soil – when he reportedly requested "The place am I?"
However he may by no means have dreamed that the reply was the nation his ancestors hailed from over two centuries earlier than.
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