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Stonehaven Skipper’s Silver Watch

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Fisherman, William Christie and 3 of his crew were drowned off Stonehaven in Jan. 1885. Their bodies were never found. 3 years later, another fisherman hooked William’s silver watch by a single link in its chain and presented it to William’s widow Christina.

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Stonehaven Harbour, 1890. Source: https://www.stunningstonehaven.co.uk/looking-back-stonehaven-harbour/
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This picture (below) of fisherfolk at Stonehaven was taken about his time. Also here’s the entry for his boat (The Mary) and the crew in the register of deaths at sea. The cause of death is given as “swamping of boat”

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https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1773579
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Entries in the register of deaths at sea for William Christie and the 3 other fisherman who died after the Mary was swamped.
References

Aberdeen Evening Express. 26th January 1885. pg. 4
Aberdeen Evening Express. 18th February 1888. pg. 2
1885 CHRISTIE, WILLIAM (Statutory registers Deaths 022/MR 98)

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Crimefighting fly-fisher

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In January 1631, two men were stealing the beams from underneath the Tweed Bridge in Peebles. John Wilesone saw them while he was “fisching in the nicht” and cast his line at them and “tuik aff ane o thair bonnettis” and it was used as evidence in their trial.

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Alexander Fraser and homing salmon

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In Feb 1829, Alexander Fraser “An t-Iasgair bàn” of Dochnalurg near #Inverness, tied wire tags around the tails of young salmon heading downstream. When he caught the same fish as adults in 1830, he proved that salmon return to their home stream to breed.