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	Robert Pitcairn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Pitcairn, born 1836 at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, was a Scottish-American railroad executive who headed the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the late 19th century.
		The borough of Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, located adjacent to the yard, was named in his honor.
		Pitcairn became somewhat infamous as a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Pitcairn (267 words)

	Clan Pitcairn
		The lands of Pitcairn lie in the Parish of Leslie in Fife, and are reputed to be one of the oldest of the ancient Kingdom.
		Nisbet states that Robert Pitcairn, Commendator of Dunfermline Abbey and Secretary during the Regency of Moray, Lennox, Mar and Morton, was a great Timeserver, a great enemy to Queen Mary and a humble servant of the Regents.
		Pitcairn Island (famous as the last refuge of the Bounty mutineers) was discovered in 1767 by Captain Robert Pitcairn, John Pitcairn, a major in the Royal Marines, was in command of the unit which fired the first shots in the American Wars of Independence.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/ntor/pitcairn2.htm (245 words)

	List of rulers of the Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pitcairn Islands, a small group of islands in the eastern Pacific, are (as of 2005) the last remaining British colony in Oceania.
		Settled by mutineers from the HMAV Bounty in 1790, the island was effectively independent until 1898, when it was annexed by the United Kingdom and placed under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Fiji.
		When Fiji became independent in 1970, Pitcairn Island was placed under the authority of the British High Commissioner (ambassador) to New Zealand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_rulers_of_the_Pitcairn_Islands (285 words)

	Burntisland, Fife - Robert Pitcairn
		But few have heard of Robert Pitcairn, who discovered the island in 1767 and for whom it is named.
		Robert Pitcairn was born in Burntisland, Fife, on 6 May 1752.
		He was the son of John Pitcairn and his wife, Elizabeth Dalrymple, and the grandson of David Pitcairn, Minister of Dysart Parish Church for 49 years.
	www.burntisland.net /pitcairn.htm (633 words)

	Horseshoe Curve, NRHS - Pitcairn Yards
		Pitcairn was named for Robert Pitcairn, the superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Pittsburgh division, when it was incorporated in 1894.
		The Pitcairn yard complex consisted of fanning out the four track main line into about three dozen tracks, which had the facility to assemble extensive freight trains, areas for classifying and receiving and humps for westbound (constructed in 1903) and eastbound (built in 1907) traffic.
		The Pitcairn yards were the first to use the new Westinghouse system of automatic switching to slow down the trains and move them to other tracks (presumably in the hump yards).
	www.trainweb.org /horseshoecurve-nrhs/Pitcairn.htm (705 words)

	Monkey Story
		A passenger on the same TEAL flying-boat in which Robert Tomarchin flew from Apia (Samoa) to Papeete (Tahiti) reported that the 9 lb chimpanzee was on the aircraft dining table in front of Tomarchin in a portable cage 1 ft high.
		The Pitcairners were worried that these people were unlikely to be able to find any water on the island, and that they would die of thirst if they didn't rush to get them away from the island.
		The Pitcairners interest in seeing Bob again was intense, but Bob was locked away in the spare hospital room with a guard on watch and no one was allowed to see him or send a message.
	library.puc.edu /pitcairn/pitcairn/monkey.shtml (6014 words)

	Lauren's Genealogy - Person Page 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Robert and Janet's son Robert Barclay was baptized on 17 January 1673 at Fife, Fife, Scotland.
		Robert and Janet's daughter Bessie Barclay was baptized on 9 December 1680 at Fife, Fife, Scotland.
		Robert Barclay, son of Robert Barclay and Janet Richardson, was baptized on 17 January 1673 at Fife, Fife, Scotland.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~lsnell/p5.htm (3780 words)

	Annals of Dunfermline - A.D. 1501 - 1601
		MARRIAGE OF ROBERT PITCAIRN, Commendator of Dunfermline.—This marriage was not conducted according to the Act of the General Assembly of 1565.
		ROBERT PITCAIRN, the First Commendator of Dunfermline, Archdeacon of St. Andrews, and Secretary of State for Scotland, died, aged 64, on the 18th October, 1584, and was interred in the north-east angle of the nave of the Abbey.
		Here is interred, in a plain urn, the hero Robert Pitcairn, the hope and pillar of his country, whom virtue, gravity worthy of a generous heart, and fidelity with true peity, adorn.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/dunfermline/chap6part3.htm (4387 words)

	Robley web
		Robert’s father-in-law, James Harrington, was a calico printer in a firm situated near Carlisle and he took Robert into the business.
		Further back, Robert’s family had lived in Wetheral Parish, and he was the first cousin of Christopher Robley who was transported to Australia in 1810 after being found guilty of grand larceny.
		Quotations from the letter, written in 1935, by William Pitcairn Robley to Mary Robley, on the occasion of her engagement to Major General Sir John Ponsonby, are by permission of John Robley, Lesmurdie, W. Australia.
	www.cus.cam.ac.uk /~mf10006/anniep.html (1503 words)

	A plea for help from the South Pacific: Residents of local borough asked to help injured woman from Pitcairn Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pitcairn Island is named for midshipman Robert Pitcairn, who spotted it from a passing ship in 1767.
		Pitcairn has been romanticized as an island paradise, but in reality it is isolated, with a subsistence economy.
		Locally, Pitcairn was named for Robert Pitcairn, an executive of the Pennsylvania Railroad who, according to local lore, was related to the Robert Pitcairn of island fame.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04364/433780.stm (708 words)

	Pitcairn, John on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Major Pitcairn commanded the advance guard of the British troops at Lexington (see Lexington and Concord, battles of) on Apr. 19, 1775, but whether he ordered his men to fire on the colonial militia or was forced to return their fire is still in dispute.
		Pitcairn Island is named for his son Robert Pitcairn (c.1747-c.1770), who as a midshipman under Philip Carteret first sighted it on July 2, 1767.
		Guilty: the verdicts that shamed Pitcairn Island; Six men - one-eighth of the population of a remote British colony - were yesterday convicted of sex crimes stretching back for at least 40 years.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PitcrnJ1.asp (336 words)

	The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants
		Living on a 1¾ square mile volcanic speck in the South Pacific that is surely one of the most isolated places on Earth, the contemporary Pitcairn Islanders still bear the surnames of the eighteenth century mutineers (Tom Christian, for example, is the great-great-great-grandson of Fletcher).
		Pitcairn's coordinates are 25 04 S, 130 06 W. After the mutiny, Christian and his sailors returned to Tahiti, where sixteen of the twenty-five men decided to remain for good.
		There are individuals and organizations around the world devoted to the Pitcairners, their genealogy, and the history of the mutiny (the genealogical tree extends to 7,500 known descendants throughout the world).
	www.infoplease.com /spot/pitcairn.html (1768 words)

	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pitcairn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Originally part of Versailles Township, it is named for Robert Pitcairn, a former superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		Robert Pitcairn was instrumental in locating switching yards, an engine roundhouse and car repair shops in the area in the 1880s near what was known as Wall Station.
		Pitcairn has the distinction of being the only municipality in Allegheny County to provide its own electric and cable television service.
	www.post-gazette.com /downloads/profile-pitcairn.htm (180 words)

	Pitcairn Islands Study Center
		July 1767 First European sighting of the island by Robert Pitcairn, a midshipman on HMS Swallow, and son of Major John Pitcairn of the Royal Marines, British commander at the first skirmishes of the American Revolutionary War.
		A son, Reuben Denison Christian, was born to Isaac and Miriam Christian during the voyage, bringing the population to 194.
		But even so, the public economy of Pitcairn languished and it was not until postage stamps were issued in 1940 that the island was able to afford some of the public amenities taken for granted in other parts of the world.
	library.puc.edu /pitcairn/pitcairn/history.shtml (6379 words)

	R. Pitcairn Statement
		Pitcairn, state how many years you have been superintendent of the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		Pitcairn, I wish you would state whether you made calculation, as requested by me, of the distance of Conemaugh from the South Fork dam by the course of the Conemaugh itself.
		Pitcairn, you can st ate [sic] now from your observation what destruction the flood caused the Pennsylvania Railroad Company commencing at South Fork and coming down to Johnstown.
	www.nps.gov /jofl/robpitca.htm (4161 words)

	Battle of Bunker Hill
		Pitcairn told them to "Break and let the Marines through!", and is said to have threatened to "bayonet the buggers" if they would not get out of the Marines' way!
		A musket ball struck Major Pitcairn in the breast and he fell into the arms of his son Lt. Thomas Pitcairn.
		Pitcairn's son, Lieutenant Thomas Pitcairn, carried his wounded father out of the line of fire to the water's edge, before returning to the battle.
	www.geocities.com /mwinthrop/majpit6.html (783 words)

	Pitcairn Island. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Pitcairn has no port or natural harbor; goods must be ferried from ships anchored offshore.
		The island was named in 1767 by Capt. Philip Carteret, a British naval officer, after Robert Pitcairn, the midshipman who first sighted it.
		It was colonized in 1790 by mutineers from the Bounty and Tahitian women, who discovered vestiges of previous Polynesian settlement.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pi/PitcrnIsl.html (247 words)

	Captain Philip Carteret discovers Pitcairn's Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This honour fell on 15 year old Midshipman Robert Pitcairn, who was the first to sight the Island that now bears his family name.
		Midshipman Robert Pitcairn, son of Major John Pitcairn of the Marines, was from Edinburgh and had joined the H.M.S. Swallow on 18 July 1766, from the H.M.S. Emerald.
		John Pitcairn was a Captain at the time of the discovery.
	www.winthrop.dk /majpit2.html (360 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They were joined by one of their four daughters, Jacqui of New Zealand, and Betty's sister Maria and her husband of Albuquerque, N.M. Discovered in 1767 by Robert Pitcairn, a British midshipman, Pitcairn Island was settled by the mutineers, after taking the Bounty from Lt. William Bligh, and their Tahitian wives.
		On her 16th birthday, the Pitcairners threw a birthday party for her, right in the middle of the square.
		The culture of Pitcairn Island is a mixture of British and Tahitian culture.
	www.shorepublishing.com /archive/re.aspx?re=62d0b62e-a609-4b12-8b37-a70ff27feb02 (536 words)

	Greene & Greene Collection, Robert Pitcairn House (Pasadena, Calif.): NODATE
		Greene and Greene Collection, Robert Pitcairn House (Pasadena, Calif.): NODATE
		Residence for Rob't Pitcairn Jr., at Pasadena, Cal. / Greene and Greene.
		Robert Pitcairn house (Pasadena, Calif.) Geographic Names: 1.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/avery/greene/html/subs/NYDA89-F607.html (282 words)

	Pitcairn island - P (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Information about Pitcairn including a map of the Island and details of each of the 50 people who live there.
		Recounts the story of the settling of Pitcairn Island by the mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty in 1790.
		Outlines the history of Pitcairn Island since its discovery by Europeans in 1767.
	www.electronicsee.com /Resources/Pitcairn_island.htm (150 words)

	Pitcairn Island Web Site: The home of the descendants of the Bounty Mutineers
		Pitcairn Island has a population of approximately 50 persons, give or take a few, of which 6 are the families of the pastor and schoolteacher from abroad.
		The current population of Pitcairn are descendants of 6 of the mutineers from this famous voyage, and their women.
		Pitcairn is one of four islands included in the "Pitcairn Islands", although it is the only populated island.
	www.lareau.org /pitc.html (2535 words)

	CRpuzzles Logic Problem Solution - The New Flag
		The four finalists in the Wisdom Islands flag design competition are listed in clue 4: Mary, Robert, the person who submitted the Clasped Hands, and the one who used a blue background.
		Pitcairn incorporated a Dolphin on the flag (2) and is thus either Mary or used the blue background.
		If Pitcairn were Mary, the blue flag would have been submitted by Easter (7)--no (3).
	www.crpuzzles.com /logic/logic0130s.html (258 words)

	Pitcairn Island
		Pitcairn Island - Status: Overseas territory Governor: Richard Fell (nonresident) (2001) Island Mayor: Jay Warren...
		The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants - April 28 marks the anniversary of the world's most famous mutiny by Borgna Brunner HMS Bounty It is...
		John Pitcairn - Pitcairn, John, 1722–75, British royal marine officer in the American Revolution.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0839202.html (282 words)

	England-Colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After living in complete isolation until 1808, the Pitcairn islanders were discovered by a passing ship and gradually established contact with the outside world.
		Their wish for a schoolteacher led to the disastrous period of control by Hill, and later three other men settled on Pitcairn and married islanders.
		Pitcairn had a population of 150 in 1960 although this was steadily declining as young people moved away, to New Zealand in particular.
	www.gaminggeeks.org /Resources/KateMonk/England-Colonies/Pitcairn.htm (431 words)

	Pitcairn, Pennsylvania PA, borough profile (Allegheny County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Pitcairn, PA Pitcairn is a borough in Allegheny County, in the Pittsburgh metro area.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Pitcairn was $14,785, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Pitcairn, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $345.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=14671 (457 words)

	Gould Genealogy - Product's Catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As well as a pedigree chart of the Fife Pitcairns, the compiler has a chapter for each of the more prominent members of the family with quite detailed information on them and their lives.
		William Pitcairn of that Ilk, Seventeenth Laird of Pitcairn and the Barony of Forthar
		Branch 3: The Pitcairnes of Pitcairne and Unstoun
	www.gould.com.au /?pageid=ProductCatalog&template=PRODUCTCATALOG&catid=5561&prodid=13435&oid=A0C6084B-CDB5-488E-AF3C-C487A0487525 (286 words)

	Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
		He had previously proposed collaborating with Robert Surtees on a study of demonology in 1809, and with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe on a comic selection of supernatural tales in 1812.
		Lockhart's suggestion was partly sparked by the interest raised by Robert Pitcairn's serial publication of Criminal Trials of Scotland, covering proceedings between 1487 and 1624, and featuring many cases of witchcraft.
		Pitcairn himself sent Scott transcripts of as yet unpublished trials, and many other students of the occult sent Scott source material on witchcraft while he was working on the Letters.
	www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk /works/prose/witchcraft.html (788 words)

	Greene & Greene Virtual Archives: Browse Project
		Robert Pitcairn, Jr., son of a wealthy and prominent Pennsylvania Railroad executive, hired the Greenes in 1906 to build his home after he had lived in a house they had designed.
		Most important were the terraces and sleeping porches that extend the outdoor living space on the upper level.
		The presentation drawings for the house show an American Indian Navajo theme in the lead glass designs, but these designs were abandoned during construction in favor of plain glass.
	www.usc.edu /dept/architecture/greeneandgreene/226.html (149 words)

	Canadian Literary and Art Archives - Maitland Club Notabilia
		Pitcairn’s suggestion that he hand over his account of ancient criminal trials to be given to the Maitland Club.
		Pitcairn’s collection of ancient criminal trials to be printed by the club.
		Value in financial terms of having Robert Pitcairn as a member.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/INFO/library/SpecColl/maitlandlist.htm (1138 words)

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