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Fife / Re: Carnock Fair
« on: Thursday 29 July 10 06:38 BST (UK) »
Thanks Monica - don't know how hou did it but it is easier!
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Fife / Re: Carnock Fair
« on: Wednesday 28 July 10 14:52 BST (UK) »
Hi Monica,
Thanks a lot - and so quick! I had ploughed backwards and looked at the Dunfermline Saturday Press from 1869 to 1863 too without finding it. I will have a look in due course at 1870 and take a close look at the Folklore book which looks very interesting. Should have thought of this website sooner!
Bookman
Thanks a lot - and so quick! I had ploughed backwards and looked at the Dunfermline Saturday Press from 1869 to 1863 too without finding it. I will have a look in due course at 1870 and take a close look at the Folklore book which looks very interesting. Should have thought of this website sooner!
Bookman
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Fife / Carnock Fair
« on: Wednesday 28 July 10 12:52 BST (UK) »
I am trying to find a poem about Carnock Fair which is supposed to have been printed in the Dunfermline Press in 1868. I have looked at the Dunfermline Saturday Press newspapers for 1868 but cannot find the poem. A partial quotation from it (probably the ending) is:
When Carnock Fair around did roll
These steps were unco’ handy;
For there the minister did stand
And deal out snaps and candy,
To a’ the youngsters o’ the Fair
Around him that did randy
On ilk Fair Day.
Can anyone provide the complete poem, author, date and source, etc?
Bookman
When Carnock Fair around did roll
These steps were unco’ handy;
For there the minister did stand
And deal out snaps and candy,
To a’ the youngsters o’ the Fair
Around him that did randy
On ilk Fair Day.
Can anyone provide the complete poem, author, date and source, etc?
Bookman
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Fife / Re: Look up Mid-Mill of Pitliver
« on: Wednesday 04 March 09 12:32 GMT (UK) »
Hi Dod,
Thank you very much. I am delighted with the information. Now I have a name I will be able to find the Midmill and the family myself in the 1841 census.
Best wishes,
Bookman
Thank you very much. I am delighted with the information. Now I have a name I will be able to find the Midmill and the family myself in the 1841 census.
Best wishes,
Bookman
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Fife / Look up Mid-Mill of Pitliver
« on: Tuesday 03 March 09 17:13 GMT (UK) »
I would be grateful to anyone who could look at a print-out of the 1841 census for Dunfermline, Fife, perhaps in a public library? I would like to discover the names, ages, etc, of all the members of the family living in the Mid-Mill (or Midmill) on the private road to Pitliver House about one mile southwest of Dunfermline in 1841. It is quite remote from any other buildings in the neighbourhood and it would mean trawling around to try and find it!
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Stirlingshire / Re: Janet Reid poetess of Bridge of Allan
« on: Wednesday 05 November 08 10:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi Ironmax,
Thanks very much but DJJake has already got someone to look and I found that Stirling Archives were willing to look too. There were some further messages about this - perhaps there still are somewhere on this site! There is no record of her burial anywhere in Stirlingshire. I think now that her relatives probably took her back to Saline in Fife for burial where she was born. Unfortunately the Saline lair book for that period has not survived. Thanks again for your offer to help.
Bookman
Thanks very much but DJJake has already got someone to look and I found that Stirling Archives were willing to look too. There were some further messages about this - perhaps there still are somewhere on this site! There is no record of her burial anywhere in Stirlingshire. I think now that her relatives probably took her back to Saline in Fife for burial where she was born. Unfortunately the Saline lair book for that period has not survived. Thanks again for your offer to help.
Bookman
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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Look Up Janet Reid at Dundee Library
« on: Friday 24 October 08 17:27 BST (UK) »
Hi Breaky,
Yes, I know that one - it's available free on the National Library of Scotland website click broadsides and look through The Word on the Streets. But thanks all the same.
Bookman
Yes, I know that one - it's available free on the National Library of Scotland website click broadsides and look through The Word on the Streets. But thanks all the same.
Bookman
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Angus (Forfarshire) / Look Up Janet Reid at Dundee Library
« on: Friday 24 October 08 11:29 BST (UK) »
I am searching for broadsides of poems by Janet Reid of Carnock or of Bridge of Allan dating from the 1840s. These are printed on single leaves of paper with a decorative border which she sold on the streets of towns in the Centre Belt of Scotland. She always put her name and home on them at the foot of the poem.
I am told that there is a collection of "Harvey broadsides" in the Central Library at Dundee probably in the Reference Section. Is there anyone who normally visits the library who would be willing to look at this please to see if it contains any broadsides with poems by Janet Reid?
Bookman (in the South of England)
I am told that there is a collection of "Harvey broadsides" in the Central Library at Dundee probably in the Reference Section. Is there anyone who normally visits the library who would be willing to look at this please to see if it contains any broadsides with poems by Janet Reid?
Bookman (in the South of England)
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Stirlingshire / Re: Janet Reid poetess of Bridge of Allan
« on: Tuesday 09 September 08 10:46 BST (UK) »
Hi DDJJake,
Thanks for that information which wll be useful anyway. I have visited different parts of Scotland three times over the last ten years researching Janet Reid but I am in the south of England so it is a long trek and I am not getting any younger!
Bookman
Thanks for that information which wll be useful anyway. I have visited different parts of Scotland three times over the last ten years researching Janet Reid but I am in the south of England so it is a long trek and I am not getting any younger!
Bookman
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