Deaths at sea off Auchmithie

On the evening of Friday last, Mr Robert Barclay, ship-owner, and Mr George Simpson, merchant, went on board the brigantine Fortune, in the bay of Arbroath.  Off Auchmithie, they left the vessel to land there; but had not proceeded far, when the boat, from some accident, unfortunately upset, and both perished in the deceitful element.  The vital spark was not quite extinct in the body of Mr Barclay when brought on shore, but in a few moments disappeared.  That of Mr Simpson has never since been seen: he has left a wife and family to lament his premature and melancholy fate.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 1st September 1819.

Accidental drowning at Auchmithie

On Friday week, Stewart Eston, fisherman in Auchmithie, while gathering dulse on a rock near that place, fell into the sea and was drowned.  He has left a wife and two children.  This is the fourth son, besides her husband, whom his aged mother (who is still alive) has had the affliction to find herself deprived of by the watery element.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 26th March 1817.