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Fife / Re: Leith Holiday Home, Cupar
« on: Sunday 19 May 19 16:10 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your kind comment about my Mum!   I remember Harry Patrick delivering groceries from Mitchell's van in the 60s and 70s, but can't remember back to the bike deliveries...

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Caithness / Re: Alexander Harper and Elspeth farquhar
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 23:20 BST (UK)  »
Some years later...

Farquhar + Oag:   I too have turned up these names as g-g-g-g-g-grandparents.

They are included in this amazing tree: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=elizabeth365_1&id=I5318

If you haven't found this already I think you'll find it fascinating.

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Fife / Re: James Sturrock born in Cupar/Coupar, Fife, Scotland 1821
« on: Saturday 19 February 11 20:34 GMT (UK)  »
That didn't take long!

It is now not known where the "Associate Church" was, but this should tell you what there is to know:
http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/10415/name/Ceres+United+Presbyterian+Church+Ceres+Fife.

The photos on this site are unreliable - the pix shown here don't relate to this building at all (naturally, since it is not known where it was!) but show the Memorial Hall, once the "Relief Church".

It is unreasonably difficult to get your head round all the splits and re-unitings in the Scottish churches!

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Fife / Re: James Sturrock born in Cupar/Coupar, Fife, Scotland 1821
« on: Saturday 19 February 11 20:10 GMT (UK)  »
Way back in this exchange one contributor supposed that Ceres was in St. Andrews.

No, Ceres is a village about 8 miles West of St. Andrews.  (It is where I was brought up).

You asked what kind of church the Associate Church would be.   At that time there had been numerous splits in the established presbyterian Church of Scotland.   I reckon that the Associate Church would have been a congregation of the First Secession.   See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_Presbytery and in the "History" section click the link to "Associate Presbytery".

At one time Ceres had 5 churches, I believe,  because of the various schisms and rifts, but I am not sure where the "Associate Church" was.   You have got me wondering - I will try to find out!     

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Fife / Re: Leith Holiday Home, Cupar
« on: Saturday 21 August 10 21:36 BST (UK)  »
P.S.   I see that this post is classified under "Midlothian".
Leith may be in Midlothian, but Ceres is in Fife !   Maybe one of the team can fix this.


Topic moved.

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Fife / Re: Leith Holiday Home, Cupar
« on: Saturday 21 August 10 21:20 BST (UK)  »
Alwyn House was my home, as my parents ran the rehabilitation and assessment centre for the blind there from 1953.   
It had also been used as a billett in WW2 for Polish airmen training at Leuchars.
I remember one or two occasions when elderly people would arrive at the door hoping to have a glimpse of the place where they had been sent as children from Leith for some healthy country air, and they seemed to have very positive memories of the place.
The building has now been filletted into flats, and much of the wonderful garden sacrificed for yet more houses to be squeezed in - it's the way the rest of the village has gone, so obviously it's the way the Council's planning department likes it...

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