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I do hope you find this compilation of reports of Cairneyhill deaths interesting.
Best wishes
Jacqueline
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EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937
FATALLY BURNED IN WASHHOUSE
Charlotte Skeel (60), who resided at Main Street, Cairneyhill, has died in Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital from burning injuries received on Tuesday morning.
Her clothing became ignited while she was lighting her washhouse fire. Neighbours extinguished the flames by wrapping a rug round her.
EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1940
WEST FIFE FATALITIES
Two fatalities occurred in West Fife yesterday. The victims were James Murdoch McDonald (13), Main Street, Cairneyhill, who was knocked down by a bus near Torryburn School, and James Herd, miner, 43 Midfield Terrace, Steelend, who was knocked down by a lorry near Saline.
EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1961
FATAL SEIZURE
A 74-year-old retired miner, Mr Peter Hogg, of Main Street, Cairneyhill, who collapsed in Queen Anne Street, Dunfermline, yesterday afternoon, died on his way to hospital
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