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”
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Rabbit Shooting Fatality
THE LEVEN ADVERTISER AND WEMYSS GAZETTE, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929 FIFE SHOT GUN FATALITY RABBIT-SHOOTING EXPEDITION A shot gun fatality has occurred at Cairneyhill, near Dunfermline, the victim being James Paton, labourer, the Bungalow, Hilton Road. The body was discovered near his home on a footpath, which is skirted by a hedge. There was aContinue reading “Rabbit Shooting Fatality”