Imprint:
New Deer : New Deer Community Association, 2023.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white and colour) ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Foreword - - Introduction - - Acknowledgements - - New Deer - the beginning - - Religion - - Ministers of the parish - - St. Kane's Church - - The clock - - The church fabric and fixtures - - Manses of the parish churches - - The Free Church - - The Congregational Church - - The Episcopal Mission - - Christian Brethren - - Artamford United Presbyterian Church also known as The Craw Kirk - - The Church of Savoch of Deer - U.P. session - - The battle o' the presbytery o Deer - - The Church of Whitehill and its ministers - - History of New Deer - - The Crawfords of Fedderate Castle - - The Comyn Dynasty - - The village - - Public records of Scotland (on the water supply) - - Celebrations in 1866 on the completion of improvements - - Fae the howe tae the tap o' the toon - - The districts - - The hermit of Corsegight - - The Redhill, Oldwhat, Whitehill and its folk - - The Buchan witch - - Mill of Whitehill - - Fedderate and the Crawfords and the Crawee Steen - - Artamford up to the village - - The school - - The main street - - The tap o' the brae - - Auchreddie Road East - - Auchreddie Road West - - Gladstone Terrace and Fordyce Terrace - - The Terrace ghost - - The Methlick Brae - - Babbie Jeannie's Craftie (Bedlam Croft or Bowskeenie) - - Auchmunziel and Cairnbanno - - Broadcast from Auchmunziel - - Cairnbanno, Greens and Brucehill - - Bulwark - - A glimpse at the parish around 1790 - - Moving on from 1790 - - Village characters - - Jimmie Calder - - Tom Scott - - Wee Willie and Dempsey - - Alex Cumming - - Geordie Beedie - - George and Hendry Know - - Rob Knox - - Willie Bucklay - - Village organisations past and present - - The bowling club - - Wheeler's Club - - The brass band - - The pleasure park - - Naiting bides the same - - Culsh Cemetery - New Deer - - The Culsh Monument - - A wee tour roon aboot - - Miscellany on New Deer - - Poems and prose by local writers - - The war memorial - - Until the day breaks - - Neepors - - Some snippets from the past - - A small story (Bill Crichton) - - More snippets... - - Famous folk of the parish - - Francie and Josie Markis - - Donald Stewart of New Deer - - Archie Campbell - - Flora Garry - the Buchan poetess - - Bertie Gow - - Albert Napier M.M. - - The Rev. Joh Burnett Pratt MA. LLD. - - John Ironside from the Brucehill Smiddy - - Jack Webster - journalist and writer - - Bertie Charles Forbes - - James M. D. Young - - James Fowlie Dickie - - The Rev. David Ogston - - Peter Buchan or Peter Oxo - - Evelyn Glennie - - George M. Stirling - - Willie Robbie - - The White Horse on Mormond Hill - - John Murdouch Henderson M.A. 1902-1972 - - James Mitchell Duncan - - Jock Duncan - - James Crichton - - The story of William Chalmers, his son Alex, and John Center - - The Tualatin Plains Presbyterian Church or the Old Scotch Church - - Some stories and rhymes I have written over the years - - Minstrelsy o Buchan - - A time to remember - - Granny's advice - - My memories of the 1930s - - The months and seasons - - Twenty years of memories - Buchan Heritage Society's 20th birthday in 1994 - - Time tae taak stock - - An apprentss vricht 1944 - - The Fergusons of Pitfour - - Jeannie fae Burnie's - - The village businesses in the 1930s - - Odds and ends and snippets - - Well of St. Ken or Kentigern - 1909 - - Some history of Brucklay and the Dingwall Fordyce family - - The wedding of Dr Dingwall Fordyce of Culsh to Mrs Warren of Edinburgh on Wednesday 16th July 1913 - - This song is about the author's farewell to Aberdour - - Far's Cruicky - - The handyman and the Brucklay family - - Some more stories about Brucklay - - A short resume of the Rev. Charles John Birnie - - A' the road, Cairnorrie - - And finally...
Summary:
“New Deer and Roon Aboot” is a fascinating miscellany of historical facts and personal anecdotes, some of them written in the traditional Doric tongue. Through poetry and prose, it details the history of the countryside and the village – as well as featuring many larger- than- life characters who lived in and around New Deer. In addition, it highlights a few of the inspirational individuals who ventured overseas - but have never forgotten their Buchan roots. It also includes an interesting collection of photographs.
ISBN:
9781399960885 (pbk)
Bookmark Link:
https://aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=3653358
