Golden Grove farm is still there do a multimap.com search for postcode KY12 9HP and you'll see it is less than a kilometre SE of Saline. Okay so it's not actually named on the map but a Google for Golden Grove Saline Dunfermline gives the postcode on a planning application.
Streets disappear, change name, house numbers are modified to cope with building expansion etc. However, I've never come across a Farm Changing name, shutting and disappearing yes! Changing name not yet!
It is now a chicken farm but was probably a general farm until fairly recently.
The Wilsons of Fife
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Andy
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Golden Grove
Searching for Keogh, Kelly, Fitzgerald, Riddell, Stewart, Wilson, McQuilkin, Lynch, Boyle, Cairney, Ross, King, McIlravey, McCurdy, Drennan and Woods (to name but a few).
Also looking for any information on Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Ireland.
Also looking for any information on Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Ireland.
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WilmaM
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I found it!!!!!
Cowstrandburn is on the [present] B913 road going Southeast between Saline and Carnock.
Golden Grove was on the East side after Langfauld Bridge and the road to Rhynd, just to the north of Cowstrandburn.
I found it by going to old-maps.co.uk searching for Saline then working my way south east and zooming in on the 1897 map.
Coordinates 303800 690900.
It is still showing as Golden Grove on old-maps' 1951 version, though the name has vanished on modern ones.
Saline parish had a wealth of fantastic names: Scalemealwalls, Bather Burn, Greenkitchin, Bickerhim and Chewitknow! so not finding a 'pretty' one like Golden Grove was annoying me!
Cowstrandburn is on the [present] B913 road going Southeast between Saline and Carnock.
Golden Grove was on the East side after Langfauld Bridge and the road to Rhynd, just to the north of Cowstrandburn.
I found it by going to old-maps.co.uk searching for Saline then working my way south east and zooming in on the 1897 map.
Coordinates 303800 690900.
It is still showing as Golden Grove on old-maps' 1951 version, though the name has vanished on modern ones.
Saline parish had a wealth of fantastic names: Scalemealwalls, Bather Burn, Greenkitchin, Bickerhim and Chewitknow! so not finding a 'pretty' one like Golden Grove was annoying me!
Wilma
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Wilson
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I am really overwhelmed by your responses.
I am quite confident that I can find my way there when I visit in a week or two. I have also found 'Glassiebarns' at which more Wilsons lived. It appears to be a cottage on Craigluscar Farm in the same area.
Is there a way to find out where they were buried?
John
I am quite confident that I can find my way there when I visit in a week or two. I have also found 'Glassiebarns' at which more Wilsons lived. It appears to be a cottage on Craigluscar Farm in the same area.
Is there a way to find out where they were buried?
John
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LesleyB
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Hi John
The events you have mentioned are too recent to turn up in MI books or The Fife Death Index CD, both of which concentrate on pre-1855 deaths and burials.
Best wishes
Lesley
Did you contact Dunfermline Crematorium as suggested earlier in this thread?Is there a way to find out where they were buried?
The events you have mentioned are too recent to turn up in MI books or The Fife Death Index CD, both of which concentrate on pre-1855 deaths and burials.
Best wishes
Lesley
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Wilson
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Hello everyone
With all the help I have recieved I have been able to locate Glassiebairns and Golden Grove. I spent a day driving around that part of Fife recently and now have photos of these two cottages. The first is a ruin used as a shelter for highland catlle. The latter is four joined cottages now made over into two. Either all four or just one of the cottages were referred to as Golden Grove. But that's close enough for me!
While there I received help from some very friendly people all interested in my quest.
The location of the graves of my ancestors still presents a challenge but I am determined to find them.
John
With all the help I have recieved I have been able to locate Glassiebairns and Golden Grove. I spent a day driving around that part of Fife recently and now have photos of these two cottages. The first is a ruin used as a shelter for highland catlle. The latter is four joined cottages now made over into two. Either all four or just one of the cottages were referred to as Golden Grove. But that's close enough for me!
While there I received help from some very friendly people all interested in my quest.
The location of the graves of my ancestors still presents a challenge but I am determined to find them.
John