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You may remember that in an earlier article in this series Andrew Petrie applied for a hotel licence on his feu across the railway line and assigned the feu to James Henry who eventually built the Burnett Arms Hotel.
The Kirk Session record at Kemnay for 18th December 1859 states that Charles Leys was paid 15/6 (77p) for partitioning (moveably) the square apportioned for sittings to the Schoolmaster and Choir respectively.
From: Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren.
When houses began to be built in the village from the 1860s onwards, some were fortunate enough to procure a water supply within the site but others were not so fortunate.
The Aberdeen Daily Journal Monday April 6 1908
OBITUARY
MR ANDREW PETRIE, BANKER, KEMNAY.
On 24th October 1894 the Kirk Session of Kemnay Parish Church resolved to raise money to provide funding to augment the stipend of the minister.
You may remember that in an earlier article in this series Andrew Petrie applied for a hotel licence on his feu across the railway line and assigned the feu to James Henry who eventually built the Burnett Arms Hotel.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, paradise is the ultimate abode of the just or 2. a place or state of complete happiness. Ask any Monymusk old timer what their idea of Paradise is and the questioner would no doubt receive a description of the pleasant woods and woodland walks which lie some two miles upriver from the village.
In this modern era of advanced technology and the ever present health and safety regulations to adhere to, we can scarcely realise the trials and tribulations our forefathers had to bear in their efforts to develop machinery that would enable them to extract granite from the earth.