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Fife has an abundance of rich history, which all Fifers should be proud. 

"When realising Fife is in your blood the Kingdom calls you home"

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Jessie Manson nee Richardson
died 26th May 2004
aged 56 years
Interred Hayfield Cemetery Kirkcaldy.
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FIFE factfinder (2006-2007)
updated 10/11/2006
I was really pleased and surprised to find the Fife Post mentioned on page 11 of the above booklet, "and finally the Fife Post, www.thefifepost.com - provides information on all things Fife and, perhaps most importantly, an indespensable interpretation guide to the local dialect."

The booklet produced by the Fife Free Press Group and is given away FREE with The Local Newspapers this week I got mines with the Fife Free Press issued on Friday 10th November 2006.

My name is EDNA I went missing from my home in Letham about 2 months ago and I am getting desperate now, I have tried everything to get home, my mum will be really worried about me, I am a very very fluffy tabby cat and I have a white patch under my chin, if you find me.
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Please please contact Mr Tommy Manson who will in turn contact my distraught Mum, thank you all.
First time FIFE mentioned
The first time that "Fife" occurs in writing is in the verses ascribed to St Columba:-
"Seven children of Cruthne
Divided Alban into seven divisions-
Cait, Ce, Cirig, a warlike clan,
Fib, Fidach, Fotla, Fortren."

The learned editor of the "Chronicles of the Picts and Scots" says :- "This legend means simply that the territory occupied by the Cruthne consisted of seven provinces bearing these names. Fib is obviously Fife; Fotla appears in the name Athfodla, the old form of the word corrupted into Athole." It is worthy of note that Fib, in the speech of South Jutland, to which reference has been made, is pronounced exactly as the modern name of Fife. Mr Robertson, in his valuable history of " Scotland under her Early Kings" (vol. ii, p. 32), gives the meaning of fibh as " the Forest." It is deserving to notice, too, that the term Kingdom applied to Fife is no mere pleasantry of modern times, because the district is seperated from the rest of the country by the Forth and Tay. The appellation is of great antiquity. In the tract of " The Scots of Dalriada," the following words occur:- "The men of Fife in the Sovereignty;" and Wyntoun in his "Cronykil," written about A.D. 1380, styles Fife " a Kynrick" or Kingdom.

From Fife: Pictorial and Historical its Peoples, Burghs, Castles and Mansions, by A.H.Millar, F.S.A. Scot.
1895.