carter – 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”

A Daring Theft

DUNFERMLINE SATURDAY PRESS 30 DECEMBER 1865 DARING THEFT On Saturday afternoon, a remarkably cool and daring theft took place in Cairneyhill. While the wife of John Philp, a carter, living in Cairneyhill, was out at a draw-well about fifty yards from her house, she observed a man come out of her door-way and proceed westwardsContinue reading “A Daring Theft”