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.

Alexander Baxter drowned

On Wednesday morning last, as Alexander Baxter, a fisherman, was returning from fishing in a small yawl, it ws upset by a swell on the bar, and he was unfortunately drowned - having sunk at the very time when one of the men in a coble, which had pushed off to his assistance, was reaching out his hand to rescue him from his impending fate.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 30th September 1812.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH AT WICK

Some weeks ago William Farquhar, fisher from Port Gordon, was accidentally killed by falling over a rock while engaged in the herring fishery at Wick.  On learning this melancholy accident, Mrs. Burn, the wife of George Burn Esq. Architect, residing at Pulteney Town, very humanely raised a subscription among the Ladies and Gentlemen of that place, and collected 16l. 14s. 6d for behoof of his widow and children.

Published in The Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 7th November, 1810.