FIFESHIRE JOURNAL, THURSDAY 2ND OCTOBER 1845 HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION The annual exhibition of the Cairneyhill Society took place in the school room there on Friday the 19th ult. It consisted of vegetables, fruits and flowers, and a number of very superior specimens were produced in each department. Prizes were awarded to those who brought forward theContinue reading “Cairneyhill Horticultural Society Exhibition”
Category Archives: Rev John Moir
Hatches Matches and Dispatches Part 6
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”
Hatches, Matches and Dispatches part 5
Dear blog reader This is the fifth 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 5”
Hatches, Matches and Dispatches part 4
Dear blog reader This is the fourth 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 4”
Death after Mrs Moir’s funeral
THE FIFESHIRE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1866 TORRYBURN DEATH OF THE REV. T DOIG The death of the Rev. Thomas Doig, minister of the Free Church congregation of Torryburn, took place at his manse on the afternoon of Wednesday. Mr Doig was in his usual health on Tuesday afternoon. He attended the meeting of PresbyteryContinue reading “Death after Mrs Moir’s funeral”
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”
Cairneyhill Valuation Roll 1885
Dear blog reader Welcome to the fourth part in a series, a list of the people, with occupation where known, who were connected with Cairneyhill in 1885. In 1885, there were 98 people listed with 17 occupations comprising 10 weavers, 2 Church ministers, 2 blacksmiths, 2 joiners and one farmer. . This compares with 75Continue reading “Cairneyhill Valuation Roll 1885”
A Cairneyhill funeral for the Blair family
Dear blog reader When the solicitors’ firm of Thomas Blair & son closed in Dunfermline in 2016, it was reported as one of the oldest Fife firms in existence, having started in 1840. The firm was started by a Cairneyhill man, Thomas Blair born in 1822 in Cairneyhill to Andrew Blair and Isabella Wilson. BelowContinue reading “A Cairneyhill funeral for the Blair family”
Electoral Roll 1879
Dear blog reader, this week a name-rich source for any of you with ancestors from Cairneyhill. FIFESHIRE JOURNAL 27 NOVEMBER 1879 THE VOTERS’ ROLL FOR THE COUNTY CARNOCK POLLING DISTRICT CARNOCK PARISH (which included Cairneyhill) Bald, James, weaver, CairneyhillBlair, Thos, writer, Dunfermline, CairneyhillBrown, R Hope, clergyman, CairneyhillBruce, Peter, factor, CairneyhillBruce, William, carter, CairneyhillCalderhead, John, weaver,Continue reading “Electoral Roll 1879”
Death of James Moir
[James Moir is named on the Cairneyhill War Memorial, second from the top] Dundee Evening Telegraph 13 October 1915 Black Watch Officer who has fallen – hero in the struggle Second-Lieutenant J M Moir, 1st Black Watch, has been killed in an attack on a German position. He was a son of the late RevContinue reading “Death of James Moir”
Cairneyhill People and History 