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.

 

TORRYBURN JURORS. 1851

BALFOUR, JOHN: smith Low Torry (scored out, 'removed to forth Iron Works')

BELL, DAVID: shipmaster, Low Torry (b 1808)

BEVERIDGE, THOMAS: shipmaster, Low Torry (b 1807)

BLYTH, PETER: farmer, Pow (aged 30)

BROWN, WILLIAM: Torry Lodge (April 1807)

CHRISTIE, ROBERT: farmer, Bullions (b 1794)

DEWAR, JAMES: surgeon, Torryburn (aged 30, scored out)

DOIG, Rev THOMAS: of Torryburn (scored out)

DOUGAL, ADAM: farmer, Cult Mill (June 1809)

DRUMMOND, JAMES: farmer, Bushes (Dec 8 1800)

DRUMMOND, JOHN: joiner, Low Torry (May 15 1794)

DRUMMOND, PETER: wright, Low Torry (March 9 1792)

GULLAND, ANDREW: farmer, Drumfin (May 17 1797)

GULLAND, WILLIAM ERSKINE: farmer, Stripeside (Nov 11 1795)

HANKS, JOHN: flesher, Low Torry (b 1807)

HEMPSEED, ADAM: weaver, Torryburn (b 1802)

HEMPSEED, DANIEL: weaver, Torryburn (May 22 1798)

HEMPSEED, JOHN: weaver, Torryburn (scored out)

HEMPSEED, SAMUEL: weaver, Torryburn (Aug 1 1793)

HENDERSON, ALEXANDER: labourer, Low Torry (b 1805)

HENDERSON, THOMAS: carter, Torryburn (March 3 1797)

HEPBURN, JAMES: manufacturing agent, Torryburn (July 1 1797)

LAWSON, JAMES: farmer, Walkmill (b 1820)

McFARLANE, THOMAS: labourer, Low Torry (Nov 22 1822)

MELVILLE, JAMES: wood-merchant, Low.Torry (aged 43)

MILLAR, THOMAS: farmer, Waulkmill (scored out, "to West Wemyse")

MORRIS, JOHN: vet surgeon (Nov 11 1792)

NICOL, WILLLIAM: grocer, Low Torry (b 1808)

OATES, JOHN: slater, Low Torry (aged 56)

REID, WILLIAM: Inspector of Poor, Low Torry (Dec 1797, scored out)

TOD, JOHN: miner, Torryburn (11 Jan 1806)

TOD, WILLIAM: farmer, Bankhead (scored out, "above the age')

WEBSTER, JOHN: farmer, Muirside (b 1797)