WEST FIFE JURORS

Box SC21/23/11 of Dunfermline Sheriff Court gives a list of West Fife Jurors for the year 1851, and the listing also gives their date of birth or age, which is useful in tracing their descent. They were either Special Jurors - who held heritable property of annual rent of £100 or personal property of £1000 or Common Jurors, possessors of heritable property of the yearly value of £5, or personal property of £200.

DALGETY JURORS. 1851

ADAMSON, WILLIAM: grocer, Donibristle Colliery (Aug 1828, entry scored out)

AITKEN, DAVID: farmer, Drumcooper (February 1806)

AITKEN, WILLIAM: shipping agent, St David's (April 1793)

ALLAN, ROBERT: grocer, Crossgates (January 1800)

BERWICK, JOHN: farmer, Vantage (January 1809)

BROWN, HENRY: grocer, St David's (scored out, "past the age")

CAIRNS, ROBERT: farmer, Broomside (January 1831)

COVENTRY, WILLIAM: farmer, Pleasance (February 1801)

DRYSDALE, JAMES: farmer, Seafield (February 1822)

FOWLIS, ROBERT: gardener, Fordel (July 1801)

KELLY, ALEXANDER: farmer, Dalgety Barns (August 1828)

McKEAN, SAMUEL: grocer, Fordel Square (entry scored out)

MOUBRAY, WILLIAM: of Otterstone House (August 1815)

MUIR, WALTER: slater, Crossgates (September 1795)

NASMYTH, ALEXANDER: grocer, Crossgates (May 1816)

PHILIPS, JOHN: of St Colme House

QUARTON, JOHN: manager of Cuttlehill tile-work (May 1816)

RAMSAY, JAMES: carter, Crossgates (June 1800)

RENTON, DAVID: labourer, Mossgreen (scored out, "past the age")

ROBERTSON, WILLIAM: clerk, St David's (August 1836)

SYME WILLIAM: farmer, Couston Mill (May 1805)

TOD, ADAM: farmer, Letham (August 1794)