Dear blog reader This is the sixth part in my series of Cairneyhill hatches, matches and dispatches that have appeared in the newspapers. I have always found such finds very exciting in my own 30 years of family history research and I hope this helps anyone doing similar Cairneyhill-based research. (Glossary: inst/instant means of theContinue reading “Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 6”
Category Archives: Muirside
Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 3
Dear blog reader This is the third part in my series of Cairneyhill hatches, matches and dispatches that have appeared in the newspapers. I have always found such finds very exciting in my own 30 years of family history research and I hope this helps anyone doing similar Cairneyhill-based research. (Glossary: inst/instant means of theContinue reading “Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 3”
Cairneyhill Properties
DUNFERMLINE SATURDAY PRESS, SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 1862 Property in Cairneyhill for sale. Upset [minimum] price, £120. To be sold by public roup, within the chambers of Henry Bardner, Writer, Dunfermline, on Tuesday the 18th day of March 1862, at tow o’clock afternoon. That dwelling house, shop and garden, situated on the south side of theContinue reading “Cairneyhill Properties”
Sale of Muirside Stock and Implements
DUNFERMLINE SATURDAY PRESS, SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 1882 MUIRSIDE DISPLENISHING SALE DAY OF SALE ALTERED To be sold by public roup, on Saturday, the 28th day of October 1882, the whole stock, crop and implements, on the farm of Muirside, near Cairneyhill, consisting of:- Stock: 4 work mares, 1 work horse, 1 two-year-old colt and 1Continue reading “Sale of Muirside Stock and Implements”
Trespass at Muirside
EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1957 TRESPASSED ON FARM IN SEARCH OF GAME John M Harley, butcher, 7 Watson Place, Dunfermline, was fined £2 at Dunfermline Sheriff Court today, and Harold L E Mason, caulker, 14 King’s Place, Rosyth, was fined £1. They admitted trespassing on Muirside Farm, Cairneyhill, in pursuit of game. HarleyContinue reading “Trespass at Muirside”
Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 2
Dear blog reader This is the first part in a new series of Cairneyhill hatches, matches and dispatches that have appeared in the newspapers. I have always found such finds very exciting in my own 30 years of family history research and I hope this helps anyone doing similar Cairneyhill-based research. (Glossary: inst/instant means ofContinue reading “Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 2”
Peculiar farm fire in 1913
DUNDEE COURIER 19 FEBRUARY 1913 ALARMING FARM FIRE AT CAIRNEYHILL Fire broke out in a rather peculiar manner yesterday evening at the farm of Muirside, Cairneyhill, tenanted by Mr John Lamont. Threshing operations were in progress, and a belt from an oil engine, which supplied the driving power of the threshing mill, slipped from theContinue reading “Peculiar farm fire in 1913”
Hatches, Matches and Dispatches Part 1
Dear blog reader This is the first part in a new series of Cairneyhill hatches, matches and dispatches that have appeared in the newspapers. I have always found such finds very exciting in my own 30 years of family history research and I hope this helps anyone doing similar Cairneyhill-based research. Please note that forContinue reading “Hatches, Matches and Dispatches Part 1”
Cairneyhill People and History 