Fairlie Gravestone Eastern Cemetery The Pends St Andrews Fife Scotland

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Channel: tourscotland · 2013 · Travel & Events

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Tour Scotland video of the Fairlie Gravestone on ancestry visit to the Eastern Cemetery by The Pends in St Andrews, Fife. A stone carved by Hew Lorimer marks the Fairlie graves; including: Reginald (Reggie) Francis Joseph Fairlie who was born at Kincaple, Fife on the 7th of March 1883, the second son of James Ogilvy Reginald Fairlie and his wife Jane Mary Buchanan. Fairlie who became a well known Architect, died in St Raphael's Nursing Home, Edinburgh on the 27th of October 1952. The Fairlie surname is a Scottish habitational name from any of several places in Scotland so called. Possibly also an Americanized spelling of South German Fährle, Värli, a metonymic occupational name for a hog farmer, from a diminutive of Middle High German varch ' pig ', ' piglet. '

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