Damhead of Fintry

VERY DESIRABLE FARM, to be Let.

There is to be let, for such a number of years as may be agreed on, and entered to partly at Whitsunday, and partly at Martinmas next,

THE FARM of DAMHEAD of FINTRAY, as at present occupied by James McKenzie.  There are about 100 Acres in the Farm, of which 50 are Arable, and 50 excellent Pasture; about 30 Acres of the Arable Land consist of fine old Infield, highly productive, early and well exposed; - the whole is in good condition, and would afford a favourable entry to a tenant.  There are good habitable Houses and Offices, and a Threshing Mill, on the Farm.  It is advantageously situated as to roads, and within a short distance of the Aberdeenshire Canal.

George Strachan, overseer at Fintray, will point out the boundaries; and offers may be lodged with Mr. Burnett, Belmont Street, Aberdeen, on or before the 20th March curt.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 3rd March 1819.

Margaret Fraser, accidental drowning

Yesterday afternoon, the body of Margaret Fraser was found in the Canal, near Hadagain.  She was a poor woman, and dealt in gingerbread and confections; and is supposed to have fallen in on her way from some of the country markets.  She had been amissing for a week or two.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 7th December 1814.

Accidental drowning

On Wednesday night last, as a man of the name of Donaldson, was returning with his wife from a North Country Market, he stumbled and fell on some stones by the road-side, near Hadagain, about 2 miles distant, when the latter, in her eagerness to assist him, fell into the Canal; upon which the husband, in his endeavours to rescue his wife from her perilous situation, also plunged into the water.  The alarm which was  given soon brought to their aid some of their friends, who were following closely, by whose exertions the woman was saved, but the man could not be got out before he was thus unfortunately drowned.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 19th October 1814.

Accidental death of Stonehaven slater

On Saturday last, a Man, in coming from a visit to a friend near Persley, fell on the road near the Canal, and being much bruised, afterwards stumbled into the Canal itself, from which he was immediately taken out in life, but was so much injured, that he soon after expired. - We understand, he was a slater at Stonehaven, of the name of Thomson, and has left a wife and family to lament his loss.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 27th January 1813.