Tour Scotland photograph of a Ship Owner Gravestone in the cemetery in 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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