Tour Scotland video of the Halkett memorial stained glass window in the Holy Trinity Church at East Port on ancestry visit to to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. In loving memory of Sir Peter Arthur Halkett, Baronet, born on 1 May 1834, at Pitfirrane, Dunfermline, died 8 Mar 1904. The Halketts held Pitfirrane in Fife from the 16th century. A former Sir Peter Halkett who succeeded the title in 1746, died in the service of Major General Edward Braddock at Fort Duquesne, Pennsylvania, in 1755. In 1779 a Wedderburn of Gosford, Sir John Halkett, again held the lands of Pitfirrane and the baronetcy of Gosford. Admiral Sir Peter Halkett succeeded to the title in 1837. He was at the time Commander in Chief of the American and West India Station. He was succeeded by Sir Peter Arthur Halkett in 1847: he settled at Pitfirrane in 1856.
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