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Adam Brown
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Ken
That is interesting. Was there a connection with the same landowner or the same firm having a base in both areas I wonder?
I hope the answer can be found.
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Kenneth Morrison
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There is an excellent article in the Dalgety Bay and Hillend Community Council Newsletter "The Diary" from 2009/10 which tells the story of the Hewitts (Pages 11&12)
http://www.dalgetybay.org.uk/uploads/files/pdf/diary/2009_1201.pdf
The father was factor to his uncle's estates of Broughton and Cally in Kirkcudbrightshire and in 1904 became factor to the Estates of the Earls of Moray (which included Donibristle Park)
So it is quite possible that Adam Watson and the Downie family were found work by the Hewitts.
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SouthsideChaz
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| Kenneth Morrison wrote: | There is an excellent article in the Dalgety Bay and Hillend Community Council Newsletter "The Diary" from 2009/10 which tells the story of the Hewitts (Pages 11&12)
http://www.dalgetybay.org.uk/uploads/files/pdf/diary/2009_1201.pdf
The father was factor to his uncle's estates of Broughton and Cally in Kirkcudbrightshire and in 1904 became factor to the Estates of the Earls of Moray (which included Donibristle Park)
So it is quite possible that Adam Watson and the Downie family were found work by the Hewitts. |
Great piece on the PDF. I was in Dalgety Bay last Saturday. Took some pictures of the war memorial. Might look up the other names
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SouthsideChaz
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| Kenneth Morrison wrote: | There's some kind of "odd" link between Dalgety and Kirkcudbrightshire.
So far we have Downie (Gatehouse) and Watson (Parton) and now I've noticed that the two Hewitt brothers were born in Gatehouse. They are listed on the Anwoth/Girthon Memorial in Gatehouse (as well as on memorials in Aberdour) |
I am researching a memorial in Edinburgh where the person came from Kirkcudbright but enlisted in Edinburgh.
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| jamiemcginlay wrote: | Dalgetty Bay - Dunfermline District
The Dalgetty Bay war memorial is a rustic sandstone pedestal surmounted by a column and cross. The dedication and names of the fallen are set out on a polished granite tablet set into the face of the pedestal. The monument stands at Saint Bridget's Church although when I was taking the photographs a local told me that this was not the original site and that it was moved there in the 1980's (I can't verify this).
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WMR 44476, which is a stone at the old church to state that the memorial was there until 1989 corroborates this story. The Old Church is now the Cornerstone Full Gospel Church. The POWIS entry for that Church that the memorial is still there is thus 30 years out of date, which is a most unusual error for POWIS, which can usually be relied on. |
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Name: Percy Lional Moubray
Rank: Captain
Unit: 1st Battalion
Regiment: Black Watch
Date of Birth: 1872
Date of Death: 29th October 1914.
Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial
Son of William Hobson Moubray, Captain RN and Adeline Hannah Babington
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Name: Andrew David Aitkin Short
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Unit: 18th Battalion
Regiment: Lancashire Fusiliers
Date of Birth: April 1895
Date of Death: 26th March 1918
Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial
Son of James Short and Ann Hendry Aitkin
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Name: James Haldane
Rank: Lance Corporal
Unit: 13th Battalion
Regiment: Royal Scots
Date of Birth: 1895
Date of Death: 12th April 1917
Buried in Dunfermline Cemetery
Son of Richard and Mary Haldane
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Name: John McNeil
Rank: Private
Unit: 7th Battalion
Regiment: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Date of Death: 11th April 1917
Buried in Roclincourt Valley Cemetery
Son of John and Rachel McNeil
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Name: Albert George Edwards
Rank: Private
Unit: 9th Battalion
Regiment: Royal Scots
Date of Birth: 1895
Date of Death: 20th September 1917
Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial
Son of Andrew and Sarah Edwards
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Name: Alexander Forrester Farquharson
Rank: Private
Unit: 69th Field Ambulance
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Date of Birth: 1896
Date of Death: 21st September 1917
Buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Son of John and Margaret Farquharson
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Name: Donald Alexander Webster
Rank: Private
Unit: 8th Battalion
Regiment: Seaforth Highlanders
Date of Birth: 1891
Date of Death: 21st October 1916
Buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension
Son of Joseph and Jessie Webster
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