INTRODUCTION

To

THE HISTORY OF THE FIFE PITCAIRNS

By

CONSTANCE PITCAIRN

There is, I believe, a desire in the minds of many to know something, however fragmentary, of the lives of their fore-fathers. My original idea in writing a history of the Pitcairns who lived in the old Kingdom of Fife, from 1250 was the hope that it might interest various members of our family; but inasmuch as the Pitcairns were mixed up with the social and political life of the times in which they lived, and as Fife in the olden days saw many stirring scenes and events of national importance (Falkland Palace and Dunfermline Palace in Fife being for long the favourite abodes of the kings of Scotland, and St Andrews the centre of religious life and leaning), it is possible others may care to read the history of an old Fife family, and the doings of a bygone time. Link