Excerpt from The Parish of Fordoun: Chapters in Its History, or Reminiscences of Place and Character

In issuing these chapters of the history of a Kincardineshire parish, and of personal reminiscences connected therewith, the Author is well aware that the little volume into which they have grown can be of little more than local interest, and possibly even that to only a limited extent. Here and there, indeed, the work may commend itself to the attention of the more general student of Scottish topography and character. For Fordoun is a parish comparatively rich in historic associations, and down even to these later times many of the people have inherited not a little of that native strength and rugged individuality which in ages long past gave distinction and renown to the men of the Mearns. And there are some of Fordoun's sons scattered over the world to whom this memento of the old place and of old times may have an interest.

During the Author's younger days there were still living in the parish men not past their vigour, whose memory stretched well back into last century, and who could have told us much of the conditions and modes of life of generations now rapidly vanishing into remoteness.

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