1887
DEATH OF A GIRL FROM BURNING. Yesterday morning a little named Janet Murray, seven years of age, daughter of a fisherman residing in Cellardyke, was amusing herself with a box of matches in absence of her mother, one of them lighted and set fire to her nightdress. Running to the door she met bee father, who at once tore off the burning shirt and had her attended to. She lingered on till midnight, when she died. Her nervous system having been completely shattered.
Daughter of Thomas Murray (Blyth) – another report says she “she stepped so near one the grate as to set fire to her chemise. A wild scream brought her mother, without the loss of a moment to her side. She was enveloped in flames, but these were so speedily extinguished that it was hoped that she had not been fatally or even seriously injured.”
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ANSTRUTHER. FISHERMEN ON THE BOARD. —Mr S. Williamson, M. P., in a letter to the on the reconstitution of the Fishery Board, deprecates the introduction of fishermen on the Board; but if fishermen are to be represented recommends as being well fitted for the post, Mr Charles Carstairs, fisherman, Cellardyke, and for the curing interest Mr David Murray, Anstruther.
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CELLARDYKE. ACCIDENT. —On Saturday, while an elderly woman, Mrs Cunningham (Pratt), George St, Cellardyke, hanging up fish on a nail she turned faintish and fell, with the result that one of her arms was broken. The limb was set and is now progressing favourably.
CELLARDYKE SCHOOL THE PROSECUTION OF TRUANTERS. Mr Forsyth, who was present, submitted a list of truanters. There were five bad cases, Andrew Reid, Thomas Muir, Wilson Birrell, Thomas Gardiner, and George, Doig, none of whom had made 39 out of a possible 114 attendances. It was resolved to prosecute the parents of Muir and Gardiner before the Sheriff, and to summon the other three parents before the Board in a fortnight. In the case of John Gardiner, son of William Gardiner, it was resolved that having failed to get him into an industrial school, application should be made to the Mar’s Training Ship to get him taken there.
ACCOMMODATION IN CELLARDYKE PUBLIC SCHOOL. A letter was read from Mr Barbour, in which he said he had to report that his school was full, and that during the last two weeks be had turned away several children. He had handed to the officer a list of over 25 children for whom he could find no room. The list was then gone over, and it appeared that over a dozen parents had promised to send their children to Kilrenny School on Monday, two to Crail, and fully 6 had refused to send them to Kilrenny. The officer was instructed to see whether all those who had promised fulfilled their promise on Monday by sending them to Kilrenny, and to warn those who had refused that the children must be sent to some school. ..
1888
Mr Fulton launched on Saturday, to the order of Skipper David Parker, one of the two large carvel built boats, built by him some time ago, and which have been laid up on the foreshore., both of the late additions to the fleet are being hurriedly fitted out for the south fishing, and are expected to be ready by the middle of next week. Owing to the short time given, the carpenters, sailmakers and smiths are obliged to work overtime to complete the outfit., Skipper Parker who had almost completed the sale of his other boat, only five years old to some crofter owners, has at last disposed of the same to Cellardyke owners for £180.
SAILING OF THE FISHING FLEET. —The East of Fife fishing fleet sailed on the first of the week for the autumn herring sea at Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Between twenty and thirty boats had in the meantime arrived at Scarborough, but as a rule our hardy fishers prefer to take another Sabbath at home. The dense fogs which prevailed in the Firth on Monday induced most of the boats to wait for another tide or two, but although the weather was still far from inviting, the harbours were very nearly deserted in the course of the following day. In consequence of the little encouragement to hook and line not a single big boat is or will be left behind—the outfit between Cellardyke and St Monance being the highest on record viz., over 150 boats. They will be absent in the South till the third week of November. This autumn the fleet is reinforced by two first class boats at Pittenweem.
THE SAILING OF THE BOATS FOR THE SOUTH.
THE ARRIVALS, &c. This has been another stirring week in the fisher homes of Fife. Friend left friend on Sabbath with the remark, “Well sail aboot daylicht.” Inconsequence, however, of the dense fog only three boats weighed, and these came to anchor again in the offing, but the situation was so improved in the afternoon that boat after boat sped like the seamew on her voyage to the south. There was little more than time to take the bearings of this and that signal light, for so well was the white thread, spun to leeward that the telegrams were by and by to hand telling how the Reindeer had run the distance between Anstruther and Scarborough in eighteen or nineteen hours, and that this and the other consort boat had got to Yarmouth about the same time next day. To east and west it was the same busy scene on the morrow, and so pleasantly did the breeze whistle at the yard arm that as an instance in point the “Rob the Ranter,” that sailed from Anstruther in the twilight of Tuesday, arrived in Gorleston, as the laughing wives told you on the doorstep, at 9a.m. on Thursday. if you had chanced to wend your way in the middle of the week between Cellardyke and St Monance you would have found the harbours as deserted, or nearly so, as they were a month ago when the fleet was away in the North. This season there are two additions in the case of the new boats in the Pittenweem squadron, but they merely replace the others. i.e. the Eclipse, sold to Skipper John Boyter, and the Storm King, sailed in the meantime by Skipper Harry Reeves, also of Cellardyke. Here again the fleet is the same, as the boats in question merely take the place of one left on the beach, and the favourite deep-sea yacht, Jessies, owned by the late Skipper James Brunton, which was sold the other week to the well-known Buckie skipper, James Reid (Rosie), who has got one of the best-found fishing craft on the east coast for the modest sum of £238. We also learn that the Cellardyke North Sea boat Isabella has changed hands, the new owner being Skipper Beatt of the Alices.
YARMOUTH HERRINGS The SS Cargan 97 tons, Captain Ross, arrived at Anstruther yesterday, from Yarmouth, and landed about 400 barrels of herrings to the order of Messrs Sharp & Murray, Cellardyke. After discharging the above quantity, she proceeded by midday tide bound to Leith with the rest of her cargo, which also consists of herrings
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