Famous Fife Families
The Haigs, the Balfours of Balbirnie, Carnegie, the Nairns and more: Fife’s great families and the myths around them.
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About this guide
Walk through Fife and you keep meeting the same names: Haig on a whisky warehouse, Balfour on a park, Carnegie on a library, Nairn on a factory wall, Rothes in the name of a whole new town.
More about this guide
This guide tells the stories of the families behind those names in plain English, from coal, linen, linoleum and whisky to great houses, Parliament and the royal court, and checks the legends against the records. “Claim checked” boxes and a round-up of 12 claims and 12 verdicts show where a story is history and where it is tradition.
It also shows how to trace a Fife family yourself, and lists places to visit area by area, with day routes and a visit log. It is about history and does not cover living family members.
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What’s inside
- Fife and its families
- Fife families in 30 dates
- Whisky at Cameron Bridge and Markinch
- The Field Marshal and the reputation debate
- The Balfours of Balbirnie
- A king’s grave at Dunfermline
- The Bruces of Broomhall, the Wemyss of Wemyss and Andrew Carnegie
- The Nairns of Kirkcaldy: the linoleum kings
- The Leslies, Lindsays, Erskines and more
- 12 claims, 12 verdicts
- Trace a Fife family yourself
- Places to visit and day routes
General information about history and heritage. Clarity Guides is independent and not linked to any family, company or organisation named in the guide.
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