This page contains links to sites that we've found interesting that are connected with us in some way: Dunfermline, Falkirk (and Grangemouth), Larbert & Stenhousemuir and Our family. Stuff about our names and genealogy has moved to a new page about our family history.
William Owen's web pages include some useful information on
Dunfermline
Central Library - especially useful seeing as they don't seem to
have their own web page.
Dunfermline.info has some good general information.
Go here for historical
and genealogical research.
The National Library of
Scotland is a good source of information. They have a search
facility which allows you to access their complete catalogues. Simply by
entering "Dunfermline" as a subject you'll get a comprehensive
list of information sources.
Dunfermline News and Views by the Fans is an unofficial site about "The Pars". The dafc.net site give up to the minute reports and allows supporters to exchange news and points of view about the team on its message board.
Electric Scotland is a very good site about Scotland and its history with a really amazing amount of material. Given that its authors are based in Grangemouth, its particularly good on Falkirk (and Grangemouth). There are pages on: The Battle of Falkirk; A Short History of Falkirk, and Grangemouth. Tom Paterson - Genealogy - Falkirk provides some background to the origin of Falkirk, quick summaries of 3 historic landmarks as well as a link to the 1841 New Statistical Account. Stirling - Local Schools has links to local secondary school sites.
The local authority now has a site at Falkirk Council. For fans of the Bairns, Falkirk Football Club have their own web site with links to unofficial sites too. A relatively new site brings you up-to-date with The Falkirk Wheel & Millennium Link .
The best though is The Falkirk Herald - it is an on-line newspaper! The on-line version of THE Falkirk Herald newspaper. Its updated weekly with all the news, events and adverts from the printed version.
The twin villages of Larbert and Stenhousemuir lie just to the north-west of Falkirk. Surprisingly, for a relatively small community, there is quite a large amount of web material. Part of this is due to the cult following of Stenhousemuir F.C. Larbert Views has aerial and ground-level pictures of the area with some general information and a location map. Larbert Online styles itself as a "community information resource". It's "News" page has comments on the controversial proposed developments at Bellsdyke and the Tryst Gold Club. The "Services" page lists some of the local restaurants and fast-food outlets. Craig Sneddon's homepage has mainly personal stuff, but his Stenhousemuir & Larbert page is an excellent concise history of the area. Electric Scotland also have a page on the area's history. Tom Paterson's pages (see under Falkirk above) have a map of Larbert, Bothkennar and Airth with historic buildings highlighted on it. Sites about Stenhousemuir FC include Stenhousemuir FC - The Warriors and go.to/stenhousemuirfc. Turning from secular to sacred, Larbert East Church's website and Larbert West Church's website introduce two of the four Church of Scotland parishes in the area (although the Larbert East site is not currently available).
The only person in our family who also has a website so far is Anne's brother, Leonard Marshall. Leonard's website is mainly devoted to his business as a photographer.
Last Revised: 19 April 2003