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Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale 4 hours ago

Sadly  Dogs are mentioned in this book more times than Drysdales.

Comment by Ronald Drysdale 5 hours ago

Charles Drysdale's shop from the same book:

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale 6 hours ago

Page 167  How long it continued under this control,
it is now impossible to say; but we may conclude that in the gradual
decay of the corporations, the mortcloth management would pass into
the hands of a mixed and public committee acting for a general body
of proprietors. We find, in point of fact, that a mortcloth society
was instituted in Dunfermline on 15th October, 1830, and continued
in existence up till the opening of the cemetery in 1863. Its first
officers were William Black, preses : James Campbell, treasurer ;
Peter M'Naughton, secretary; and Andrew Murray, officer. The
guildry had also a mortcloth reserved to its own members; but this,
too, wore out of fashion, and at last was no less worn out of all decent
fabric. Its last officer-who was also tyler to the freemasons-was
Robert Drysdale, who died in August, 1887.

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale 6 hours ago

Page 142 Under date of 8th August, 1676, one John Drysdale "leaves to
the town and burgh of Dunfermline, for the use of the common good
thereof, the sum of 400 merks Scots money, resting in the hands of
James Mercer of Kirkland, by bond, and the sum of 100 merks money
forsaid, resting to him by George Stirk, weaver, in Whitefield of
Pittencrieff by bond, etc."