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”
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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”
Cairneyhill People and History 