PERSONS
&
PROFESSIONS
in
FIFE
I gathered the material below from existing
queries. New submissions are welcome, as well as corrections or new
information for listings below.
* James ADAMSON,
coal miner, from
Weymss
Fife Scotland to
Yorkshire England in 1910's to serve in
WWI and later worked as miner at
Micklefield Near Leeds
Yorkshire.
(Submitter: Philip
Carman)
* Robert ADAMSON ,
born early 1870's,
coal miner, from
Weymss Fife Scotland
(Submitter: Philip
Carman)
* Alexander BEALL, son of
Willam Beall, was, like his father, a braboner -- a linen
weaver-- St. Andrews, Fife in the mid-1600s. (Submitter:
Carol
Middleton)
* William BEALL was a
braboner -- a linen weaver-- St. Andrews, Fife in the
early to mid-1600s. (Submitter:
Carol
Middleton)
*
William BEALL, son of
Willam Beall, was, like his father, a braboner -- a linen
weaver-- St. Andrews, Fife in the early to mid-1600s.
(Submitter: Carol
Middleton)
* Robert DONALDSON was a
joiner journeyman, latter part 19th century (Submitter:
Helen
Horner)
*
Jane McDonald DONALDSON,
domestic servant in or before 1920, Fife, probably
Dumbermline (Submitter: Helen
Horner)
* George HENDERSON,
mealdealer, Kirkcaldy, before 1854
(Submitter: Patricia
Legg)
*
Alexander HYND of
Dunfermline, was a coal miner, mid-1800s
(Submitter: Lori
Hynd Ray)
*
Thomas KNOX, sawyer /
woodman, 1830s-40s, Fife (Submitter: Hugh
Hoffman)
*
William LANG,
headmaster of the Laurencekirk schoolhouse in the 1890s
(Submitter: Crystal
Lang)
*
David ROBB was a
tailor and later a Spirits Dealer in Kirkcaldy.
(Submitter: Patricia
Legg)
* James LESSELS was a
cabinet maker around the 1840s
(Submitter: Ruth
Croft)
* Thomas PHILIP was
noted as a
Tobacconist in the early 19th century
(Submitter: Robert
Stewart)
*
Stephen PARMENTER was in the
Royal artillery in 1849 and later in Fifeshire Militia
(Submitter: Graeme
Parmenter)
* John ROBB was a
carpenter in
Fife before he went to
Austrailia
in 1858.
(Submitter: Patricia
Legg)
* John RODGER
of Anstruther Fife, rope & sail
merchant, 1750s + (Submitter: Lori
Hynd Ray)
*
William SNOWDOWNE, a
cotton dryer around 1920, Fife, probably Dumbermline
(Submitter: Helen
Horner)
*
John Hodge SMITH was a
Merchant Clerk in Fife (Submitter: Andrew
Logie-Smith)
* Ebenezer TRAILL
is shown in the 1881 census as living in
Auchtermuchy, Fife
and working as a
wincey weaver (Submitted to Fife
ScotlandGenWeb GenConnect by
Annemarie)
* George
WEBSTER, teacher, writer, using pen name of Linton
Cuff or L.C., born March 24, 1823, at Craigrothie,
in Ceres parish (Submitter: Gingy
Matthews)
* John WEIR of
Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland, coal miner, in 1880 . He was
"sent to the pit" (i.e.,
coal mine) on his eleventh birthday.
Became the
general secretary of the
Fife and
Clackmannan Miners Assn. on the
Dunfermline Town Council
1885-1903, during the last 6 years, he was one of the
Bailies
of the Burgh. He was a life member of the
Carnegie Dunfermline
Trust which was established in 1903 by
Andrew Carnegie
(Submitter: Anna
Belle Emery)