HEADSTONES in Kirkcaldy Cemeteries(Part 1)

[ostler]

Hi Norrie, since you've got all these photos indexed and the like maybe you'd like to help out the following project:

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/

[JDB307]

Hello Norrie,

Seasons greetings from frozen Lincolnshire - hope you're keeping warm. 

I've got quite a few Blyths which I would appreciate you looking up if you don't mind.

My great grandparents were Dysart folks:

  John Blyth (1835-1913) m Sophia Carstairs (1835-1896)
  Henry Christie (1805-1913) m Agnes Burnside (1804-1871)

My grand parents and his siblings were also all born in Dysart:

  David Blyth (1857-1940) m Isabella Kay Dorward (1858- )
  Sophia Blyth (1858-1944) m William Lumsden (1861- )
  Mary Blyth (1861-1879) did not marry
  George Blyth (1863- ) m Laura Watts (1868- )
  John Blyth (1868-1869) did not marry
  James Blyth (1867-1943) m Christina McFarlane (1861- )
  Andrew Blyth (1869-1933) m Julia Allan (1873- )
  John Blyth (1871-1947) m Margaret Simpson Christie (1874-1948)
  Robert Blyth (1873-1952) m Janet Anderson Duncan Spence (1873- )
  Margaret Blyth (1876-1910) m Robert Birrell (1883- )

Like everyone else, I very much appreciate the generous gift of your time in doing this.

If there are images of any of the above, may I please use then in my family history book which I am writing for my children?  I will not be offering it for sale and will certainly give you due acknowledgement.

Kind regards,

Jack

[Rufous Treecreeper]

Hello Norrie,

Thank you for offering to search your index 

I'm particularly interested in any sighting of either William Orr or David Milne Philp/Philips.

Any other Orr's would be of interest too, if there are not too many to list.

Many thanks,
Mo

[hdw]

Hello Norrie,

Seasons greetings from frozen Lincolnshire - hope you're keeping warm. 

I've got quite a few Blyths which I would appreciate you looking up if you don't mind.

My great grandparents were Dysart folks:

  John Blyth (1835-1913) m Sophia Carstairs (1835-1896)
  Henry Christie (1805-1913) m Agnes Burnside (1804-1871)

My grand parents and his siblings were also all born in Dysart:

  David Blyth (1857-1940) m Isabella Kay Dorward (1858- )
  Sophia Blyth (1858-1944) m William Lumsden (1861- )
  Mary Blyth (1861-1879) did not marry
  George Blyth (1863- ) m Laura Watts (1868- )
  John Blyth (1868-1869) did not marry
  James Blyth (1867-1943) m Christina McFarlane (1861- )
  Andrew Blyth (1869-1933) m Julia Allan (1873- )
  John Blyth (1871-1947) m Margaret Simpson Christie (1874-1948)
  Robert Blyth (1873-1952) m Janet Anderson Duncan Spence (1873- )
  Margaret Blyth (1876-1910) m Robert Birrell (1883- )

Like everyone else, I very much appreciate the generous gift of your time in doing this.

If there are images of any of the above, may I please use then in my family history book which I am writing for my children?  I will not be offering it for sale and will certainly give you due acknowledgement.

Kind regards,

Jack

I'm descended from Patrick Blyth and Isobel Inglis, who were married in 1709 at Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy. Their son Patrick Blyth (b.1711) married Margaret Watson in 1744 at Dysart/Abbotshall.

Patrick and Margaret had a daughter called Isobel Blyth (b.1748, Abbotshall) who married William Anderson at Dysart/Abbotshall in 1770.

William Anderson and Isobel Blyth were my 4 x great-grandparents. They would eventually move to Pittenweem in east Fife where they were the ancestors of the fishing families of Anderson and Horsburgh.

One scary aspect of having Blyth ancestors in Kirkcaldy is that you may be related to the former Tory Defence Secretary and current TV presenter Michael Portillo, whose maternal grandfather was a John Blyth of Dysart.

Harry

[NorrieG]

Hi Norrie, since you've got all these photos indexed and the like maybe you'd like to help out the following project:http://www.gravestonephotos.com/

Hi Ostler  will look in to it.

NorrieG

[NorrieG]

Hi Jack you said
My great grandparents were Dysart folks:

  John Blyth (1835-1913) m Sophia Carstairs (1835-1896)
  Henry Christie (1805-1913) m Agnes Burnside (1804-1871)

My grand parents and his siblings were also all born in Dysart:

    Sophia Blyth (1858-1944) m William Lumsden (1861- )

Jack can't find anything on John BLYTH or Henry CHRISTIE
but here is a inscription from East Wemyss Cemetery for Sophie and William

858   Erected by William & Sophia LUMSDEN
   in memory of their children
   Catherine J LUMSDEN died 24.3.1898 age 3&1/2
   Sophia C LUMSDEN died 26.10.1920 age 20
   Above William LUMSDEN died 3.6.1937 age 75
   Above Sophie BLYTH died 16.3.1944 age 85

NorrieG

[NorrieG]

Hi Again Jack some more
My grand parents and his siblings were also all born in Dysart:

    John Blyth (1871-1947) m Margaret Simpson Christie (1874-1948)

Dysart 291
   John BLYTH died 1.8.1947 age 75?
   wife Margaret CHRISTIE died 23.5.1948 age 73


 Robert Blyth (1873-1952) m Janet Anderson Duncan Spence (1873- ) 

Dysart 653
                Robert BLYTH died 17.3.1952 age 78?
   Wife Janet SPENCE November 1955
   Son Robert died 8.9.1955?

Inscription hard to read

[NorrieG]

Hi Jack these are other BLYTHs in Dysart Cemetery
any of yours ?

Dys   95   Andrew   Blyth   Mgt Thomson Turner
Dys   1940   Andrew   Blyth   Jane Wilson Kidd
Dys   1505   James   Blyth   Jane Mitchell
Dys   788   James McF Blyth   Laura Blyth
Dys   156   John   Blyth   Sarah Wilby Waldegrave
Dys   1930   John   Blyth   Jane Whyte
Dys   443   William   Blyth   Nettie Hughes
Dys   1288   William   Blyth   Janet Robertson
Dys   953   John   Barclay   Agnes Blyth
Dys   272   James S   Smith   Annie Blyth
Dys   1506   Robert Burns Wood   Grace W   Blyth
Dys   199   James Williamson   Janet R Blyth
Dys   2108   James Stocks   Jean Blyth

NorrieG

[NorrieG]

I'm particularly interested in any sighting of either William Orr or David Milne Philp/Philips.

Any other Orr's would be of interest too, if there are not too many to list.

Many thanks,
Mo

Hi Mo  Nothing on William ORR or David Milne Philips

NorrieG