Tour Scotland travel photography of a Ship Owner Gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. Sacred to the memory of John Pitkethly, Ship Owner, Newburgh, who died 28th January, 1871, aged 70.
Recorded in the spellings of Pitcaithly, Pitcaithley, Pitceathly, Pitkaithly, Pitkeathly, Pitkeathley, Pitkethly and no doubt many others forms as well, this is a Scottish locational surname. It derives from the village or lands of Pitcaithly in the parish of Dunbarny in the ancient county of Perthshire.
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