Labourer – Cairneyhill People and History

Cairneyhill Court Appearances

DUNFERMLINE SATURDAY PRESS, SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 1887. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFF SUMMARY COURT. At the Sheriff Summary Court on Tuesday – Sheriff Gillespie on the bench – Edward Turnbull, labourer, Cairneyhill, was charged with assaulting his wife and daughter with a walking stick. He pled guilty, and the Sheriff ordered him to find £3 as cautionContinue reading “Cairneyhill Court Appearances”

Cairneyhill 1841 Census Part 1

Dear blog reader I am so excited to start a new family history Cairneyhill series – the censuses of Cairneyhill, beginning with 1841, 4 pages of the original schedule at a time. I do hope all of you with Cairneyhill ancestors will find this useful. Jacqueline. **************************************** Cairneyhill – south side of the street PageContinue reading “Cairneyhill 1841 Census Part 1”

Cairneyhill Burglar

DUNDEE EVENING POST FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER 1904 LENIENCE TO DUNFERMLINE BURGLAR Some amusement was raised in Dunfermline Sheriff Court today, when an apparently half-witted labourer, George Erskine, North Pitdinnie, Cairneyhill, was charged with breaking into a house lately occupied by himself in Cairneyhill, belonging to Alexander Erskine, railway surfaceman. He admitted the charge, and statedContinue reading “Cairneyhill Burglar”