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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Death of Rev William Cunningham
ST ANDREWS CITIZEN, FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 1994 DEATH OF RETIRED MINISTER The Rev. William Louden Cunningham has died in St Andrews at the age of 91. A graduate of Edinburgh University, he was minister at Cairneyhill in Dunfermline before he retired to Strathkinness in 1968. Following the death of his wife he moved to StContinue reading “Death of Rev William Cunningham”
Induction of William L Cunningham
DUNDEE EVENING TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY 19TH DECEMBER 1946 COCKERELS ‘ENTERED THE MINISTRY’ Loud, hearty laughs resounded within the crowded Institute Hall at Cairneyhill, near Dunfermline. Occasion was the induction social of Rev William L Cunningham and the laughter was the result of stories told by his ‘cronies’. Rev F M Musk, Dunbar, confessed he had beenContinue reading “Induction of William L Cunningham”