Gatehouse of Fleet Brickworks, Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire
— 11/06/201812/01/1853 – Dumfries and Galloway Standard – Gatehouse. An itinerant umbrella-mender, of the name of James McNish, was drowned in the stagnant water of Mr Hume’s brick-fields, on the evening of Tuesday the 4tn instant. He had called at the Free Manse between seven and eight o’clock, and it is supposed that in seeking to…