ALIMENT DECREES, DUNFERMLINE SHERIFF COURT,1830-1854

Only an abbreviated reference has been given; add SC21 for the full reference. Page numbers are given where they exist (in Vol 2 only), otherwise it is the number of the decree, or date of decree

In the listing below, the mother's name and designation are given first, then v for versus, followed by the father's name and designation. Then comes the child (male/female) and date of birth; and then the reference. Only an abbreviated reference has been given, 4/17, 4/18, etc. This should be prefixed by SC21 for the full reference. This is followed by the page number, and then by the decree number in brackets. Be aware that 4/27 is in 2 halves, with same page numbers in each half.

It is possible that a process of the action may still have survived; check the process boxes of Dunfermline Sheriff Court, held at Scottish Record Office (West Register House).

The listing below has been taken up to the end of 1854 and beginning of 1855, when Statutory Registration began. If you have an illegitimate ancestor born after then, it will still be worth checking the Extract Decree Books to see if an aliment action was brought.

ALLAN, ELSPETH : re., Wellwood Colliery, v Daniel Blyth, collier there female , b 22 Oct 1840; 4/2 P 141-42; No 83

ANDERSON. CHRISTIAN: res Entry of Pitreavie, v Alexander Pringle, shepherd , masterton; female; (24 Mar 1843) ,4/2 P 292-94

ANDERSON, MARY: res Reform Street, v Thomas Brownlie, weaver, Queen Ann street; female; (23 June 1837) 4/1

ARNOT, MAGDALENE: res Martyr's Place, v Thomas Chalmers, farm Servant at Pitdinnie; male, b 25 April 1841; 4/2 P 156-57 (92)

BAIRD, CHRISTIAN: dau of dec David Baird, sometime tenant in Shiells, V David Gulvair, servant to Mr Michael Beveridge, farmer, Braeside of Lassodie; male; (22 May 1835) 4/1 No 213

BALD. MGT: res Inverkeithing, v David Struth, farm servant at Annfield, nr Inverkeithing; female; (21 Aug 1841) 4/2; P 175-76

BALFOUR, LOUISA: res Crombie Point, v Thomas Fotheringham, Wright, Cairneymill; male, b 10 April 1851; 4/3 (4 Sep 1855)

BARCLAY, ANN: res Inverkeithing, v George Brown, smith in North Queensferry,; male, b 14 Oct 1844; 4/2 No 265

BARR, MGT:; res Banniehill, v Lawrence Reid, collier, Bell Row, female, b 20 Jan 1847; 4/3 (6 & 31 July 1849)

BAXTER, ANN: res High Street, Dunfermline, v her husband John Scotland. wright there (m 15 Feb 1831), for aliment of her and her 5 children (eldest boy of 11 yrs, an idiot); 4/2; P 234-37

BAXTER. ISOBEL: res Aberdour, v John Cunningham jnr, blacksmith there; male, b 24 march 1837; 4/2; P 163-64; No 98

BEVERIDGE, CATHERINE: res Townhill Colliery, widow of dec David Beveridge, collier, wellwood Colliery, v Alexander Sword, Townhill Colliery; male, b 4 May 1842; 4/2 P 212-13

BEVERIDGE,_ CATHERINE.: res Townhill, v Isobel Simpson, or Blyth, res Habeath tor male child, [in custody of Simpsonj b 18 Jan 1844, in fornication with Walter Blyth, formerly collier at Halbeath, now residing in Airdrie; 4/2 No 201

BEVERIDGE. MGT: res Sunnybraes, nr Saline, v Andrew Westwater, carter, Inverkeithing; male, b 24 June 1846; 4/3 [8 March 1850]

BIRRELL, MGT: dau of Robert B, farm servant, Seafield [Dalgetyl v Daniel Nicol, farm servant, Hallhouse [Dunfermline par]; Breach of Promise (£5); 4/3 [19 April & 21 June 1850]

BLYTH, JANET: res Leslie, v Edward Magoun, weaver, Brucefield; female, b. 13 Aug 1814; 413 [July 1850]

BREMNER,.HELEN: res Baldridgeburn, v John Ferguson, coal-hewer, Blackburn, male, b 31 Jan 1843; 4/2; P 305 [No 173]

BROWN, CHRISTIAN: res., Linktown of Abbotshall, v James Reid, res Aberdour; male b 17 June 1847; 413 [2 Oct 18541

BROWN, JANE: res Inverkeithing, v Andrew White, moulder there; female, b 14 Jan 1853; 4/3 [23 Jan 1855]

BRUCE, ISABELLA: res Cairneyhill, v David Cunningham, weaver there., male, b 1 Jan 1846; 413 [3 Nov 1848]

BURNS.. HELEN: res Nether Tenements of Caldhame [Brechin] , v James Kinnear, plumber, Dunfermline; female, b 29 Oct 1851; 4/3 [13 April 1855]

CAMERON ISABELLA: in Saline, widow of Wm Gray, sometime labourer there , v David Barrowman, blacksmith, Saline; female, b 1 Dec 1841; 412 P 289-91 [No 163]

CAMPBELL, ANN: dau of Alexander Campbell, miner, Lethans, v George Burden, engineer at Forth Iron Co Works. at South Lethans male, b 20 May 1853; 413 [3 Aug 1853]

CHALMERS, ISOBEL: res Milesmark, v David Nisbet, carter, Backmuir, male; 4/1 No. 256 [17 June 1836]

CHALMERS, ISABELLA: dau of John C, labourer in Milesmark, v David Nisbet, carter, Backmuir of Pitfirrane; female, b 28 A ug 1834; male, b 16 Dec 1835; male, b 5 Nov 1838; 412 P 137-39 (81)

COLLIER, or Forfar, JEAN: res Mastertoun, v James Arnot, servant to Mr. Sanders, tenant, Masterton; male; 4/1; No 118 [26 Oct 1832]

COLVILLE, BETSY: : res Crossgates, v James Toshack, carter there; aliment for male & female child; 4/2; P 197-98 [29 March 1839]

CONDIE, ELIZABETH: res Hillend [Inverkeithing], v Andrew Marshall, farm servant in employ of Robert Cairns, farmer, Boupry, nr Aberdour; male, b 29 July 1843; 4/2 P 345-46 [No 184]

CREE, HELEN: res Dunfermline, v David Kilpatrick, wright there; female, b. 1 Jan 1849; 413 [22 Feb & 8 March 1850]

CROCHIE. JEAN: res Maygate Street v John Drysdale flaxdresser, North Chapel Street; male, b 31 Aug 1840; 4/2 P l32-33 (No 77)

CUMMING,. MGT: res Pittencrieff St, v Ebenezer Gibson, weaver, Priory Lane; male, b. 11 March 1854; 4/3 [4 April 1854]

CUNNINGHAME, ISABELLA: res Boreland [Dysart], v Thomas Wilkie, miner, or overseer, Oakley; female, b 21 May 1848; 413 [7 June 1850 & 10 Jan 1851]

CURRIE, JANET: dau of John C, res Sheshank, nr Fordel, v Henry Inglis, farm servant to Mr John Russell, tenant of Hall Of Halbeath; male; 4/1; No 110; [26 Oct 1832]

CURRIE. JANET: dau of John C, labourer, Whins of Duloch, v John Drysdale, :farmer, Whinnywick of Fordel; male; 4/1 No 212 [5 Jun 1835]

DEACON, ISOBEL: res Crossgates, v James Galloway, wright there; male., 4/1; No 22 [29 Oct 1830]

DEWAR, ISOBEL: res Aberdour, v John Forsyth,,wright there; female; 4/7,-P 162-63 [25 Dec 1840 & 12 March 41]

DEWAR, MGT: sometime res Cairneyhill, now Kincardine, v James Taylor,farm servant, Muirside; female.b 20 Oct 1845; 4/2; No267

DONALDSON, ELIZABETH: w of Charles Scotland, labourer at Hetton v John Brown, tanner, res Campbell Street; male, b 3 May 1853; 4/3 [13 June 1854]

DOUNIE, AGNES: res Carnock, dau of Charles D., feuar there, v Thomas Reedie. labourer. Forth Iron Works; twins (boy & girl), b 13 Oct 1846; 4/3 [15 jan 1847]

DRUMMOND, HELEN: schoolmistress, Masterton, v James Fraser, farmer, Whitehill; Breach of Promise (£14); 4/3 [4 Feb 1853]

DRYSDALE-. EUPHEMIA: res Inverkeithing. v David Pitblado, shipmaster, Crombie Point; male; 4/1; No 48 [29 Oct 1830]

DUNBERY, HELEN: res.Carfin iron Works, par of Bothwell, dau of Angus Dunbery, collier at Carfin. v James Smith, formerly puddler under employ of Monkland Iron & Steel Co, and now or latelv puddler at East of Sco tland Malleable Iron Works, res Dunfermline; female, b 28 July 1848; 4/3 [23 Feb 1849]

EASON, SUSAN: res St Monance; v Thomas Younger jnr, late at Backmuir ot Gilston [Largo], pres in Hallbeath; male; 4/1 No 60 [29 Oct 1831]

FAIRNIE, ANN: dau of George Fairnie, labouerer, Auchterderran, v Thomas Strachan jnr, baker, son of TS snr, baker, Oakfield [Beath]; female, b 14 July 1854 4/3 [12 Dec 1854]

FAULDS, SUSAN: res East Port Street, v John Hoggan, mason in Dunfermline; male; 4/1 ; No 86 [18 May 1832]

FERGUSON, MGT: res Moodie Street, v James Anderson, Dunfermline, female, b 13 Dec1850; 4/3 [24 March & 7 April 1851]

FERNIE, ANN: pres res Braeside [Abdie], v Robert Deuchar jnr, farmer, res Meldrum's Mill, nr Dunfermline; male, b 1 Nov 1842; 4/2; P 233-34; No 144

FORSYTH, MGT: res Aberdour [1843] afterwards [1847] servant to Mr Ballantyne, Castle Hill House, by Ayr, v Bryce Simpson, wright Aberdour; female, b 11 May 1840; 4/2 P 307-09; No 174 & 413 [28 May 1847]

FOSTER. MARY: res North Queensferry, w of David Armour, Bridge Street, Leith, v william Morton, builder, Horsemarket, Dunfermline; male, b 17 June 1836; 4/2 P 242-44; No 147

GIBSON, JANET: res Whiterashes, v James Meiklejohn, overseer at Blair; child, b 10 June 1836; 4/1 No 279 [4 April 1837]

GIBSON, JEAN: res Halbeath, v James Addison, wright, now or lately in Carnock; Male, b 12 April 1846; 4/3 [8 & 19 Set 1846]

GIBSON, MARY; pres res. at Kilbagie, v William Wilson, smith, Dunfermline ; male; 4/1 No 45 [17 June 1831]

GORDON, JANET: res Auchtertool, v John Adamson, farm servant to Wm Reikie, Kirkton of Beath; female; 4/1 No 101 [19 Oct 1832]

GRAHAM , MARION: res Goukhall, dau of William G, weaver there, v William Simpson, farm servant at Boubraid, res Carnock; female, b 18 April 1838; 4/2 P 92-93; No 57

HEARKENS, HELEN: res Torryburn, v James Toshack, farm servant, Newbigging (Carnock); male, b 3 Jan 1843; 4/3 [19 Nov 1845 & 10 March 1846]

HENDERSON, ELIZABETH: res Inverkeithing, v John Robertson, carter, Newmills; female, b 24 May 1842; 4/2 No 264

HILL ROBINA: res Beveridgewell, v Robert Malcolm, farm servant to John Young. farmer, Pleasance; male; 4/1 No 77 [24 Feb 1832]

HODGE. EUPHEMIA: res Muirtown [Beathl , widow of Adam Addison, blacksmith, sometime in Dunfermline. v William Ford, labourer at Oakfield [Beathl; male, b 8 June 1851; 4/3 [5 Dec 1851]

IRELAND. AGNES: res Kinneswood v George Bickerton, sometime weaver there, now labourer in Crossford; male, b 31 Oct 1846; 4/3 [19 April & 24 May 1850]

IRON, MGT: res High Street ' v James Niven, res Limekilns; female; 4/1 No 206 [20 March 1835]

KENNEDY, ELIZABETH: res Crossgates, v Robert Young, hostler to Thomas Addison, Dunfermline; male; 4/1 No 250 [5 & 26 Feb 1836]

LAING. MGT: dau of Robert L, labourer, Cowdenbeath, v Thomas Christie, baker there; male, b 24-Dec 1852; 4/3 [28 Jan 1853]

LASKIE, ANN: res Dunfermline, v John Chalmers, manufacturer there; male; 4/1 No 199 [4 July 1834]

LAURIE, CATHERINE: res Oakley, v James Macara or Currie, charfiller there; male, b 19 Nov 1848; 4/3 [7 & 28 April 1854]

LAURIE, MGT: res Cairneyhill, v James Lindsay, farm servant at Buillons; male, b 27 July 1847; 4/3 [15 Oct 1847]

LEITCH, ESTHER: res Duranside [Kinross] v James Nisbet, collier at Elgin colliery; female, b 22 Oct 1843; 4/2 No 217

LIDDELL, .CATHERINE: res Crossgates, v John Muirlong, miner, res with Alexander muirlong, collier, Crossgates; female, b 18 Oct 1854; 4/3 [ 22 & 25 Jan 1856]

LINDSAY, AGNES: res Kinross, v John Young, formerly shoemaker, Kinross, now Dunfermline; male, b 18 Dec 1854; 413 [19 Jan 1855]

LINDSAY. ISABELLA: dau of Robert L, sawyer, Cairneyhill, v John sinclair jnr, miner, Keeper's Row, Oakley; male, b 11 Nov 1855; 4/3 [7 & 14 March 1856]

LOVE. HANAH: res Inverkeithing, v William Stronach, farmer, Hills, nr inverkeithing; female; 4/2 No 19 p20-21 [17 May 1839]

McARTHUR , MGT: res Kelty, par of Cleish, v George Jamieson, weaver, Campbell St; male, b 23 Jul 1851; 4/3 [7 April 1854]

McCALLUM, ANN; res Binthead [Saline], v John Drummond, servant at Bushes(Saline) male; 4/1 No 12 [2 & 16 July 1830]

MACDONALD, JANET: res Hillend, v William Venters gamekeeper & labourer, Cullaloe, Aberdour; female; 4/1 No 17 (30 July 1830)

MACDONALD. MGT: res Stirling, v Alexander Falconer, bookseller, Dunfermline; female; 4/1 No 220 .[10 & 31 July 1835]

McGORIAN.,AGNES.BEVERIDGE: dau of Edward McGorian at Brucefield Feus v Robert Thomson, smith. Campbell St; male, b 7 Apr 1851; 4/3 [22 Sep, 31 Oct & 28 Nov 1851]

McIVER, CHRISTIAN: res Charlestown, v John Miller, shipbuilder Limekilns; female; 4/1 No 162 [20 Dec 1833 & 17 Jan 1834]

MCLEOD, ELIZABETH: res Nethertown, v John Hogg, weaver there; male. b 26 Jan 1851; 4/3 [12 Nov 1852]

McNAB, JANET; spouse of John Hamilton, weaver, Queen Anne St, v sd John Hamilton; action of separation & aliment; 4/2; No 215 [22 Dec 1843]

McNAUGHTON, MARION: res Dunfermline, w of James Fogg, pres res in Johnston, v Peter Donald, weaver, Dunfermline; male, b 12 march 1832; 4/3 [8 March 1853]

McQUEEN, ALISON: res Inverkeithing, v Peter Monro jnr, mason, sometime in Inverkeithing, now in Dunfermline; female; 4/1 No 172 [10 Feb 1834]

MANCLARK, -MARY: res Dunfermline, v Charles Reid, farm servant, Inzievar; female, b 8 march 1842; 4/2 No 206 [17 May 1844]

MELVI LL, ANN: res Inverkeithing, dau of John M, weaver there, v William White, carpenter, Charlestown; male, b 14 Jan 1840; 4/2 No.111; P 184-85

MERCER, MARY: res Hillock, nr Dunfermline, v Robert Monro, labourer, lnverkeithing; female,b 17 Mar 1845; 4/3 [23 Jun 1848]

MILLER. ISABELLA. res Parkneuk, Elgin Colliery, v David Paterson, coal-hewer, Hawkiesfauld, Wellwood Colliery; male, b 1 May 1841; 4/2 No 164 P 291-92

MITCHELL, CHRISTIAN: res Crombie Point v William Greig, wright, Crossgates; female; 4/1 No 65 [28 oct 1831]

MITCHELL. CHRISTIAN: res Blair Row, Oakley, v James Currie, contractor there; female, b 14 March 1855; 4/3 [4 May 1855]

MITCHELL, JEAN: re., Hillend, v William Annan, foreman to John Berwick, fa rmer, vantage of Fordel; female, b 4 May 1850; 4/3 [15 Aug & 8 Oct 1850]

MOODIE, JANET: res Inverkeithing, v James Morris, sailor board the "Hillary"or "Helene" of Limekilns; male, b 5 Jan 1838, & female, b 2 July1841; 4/2 No 109; P 180-82

MUIR, JEAN; res Fordel, v husband, Richard Gibb, collier there aliment for herself & child; 4/3 [11 Jan 1850]

MURRAY, ELIZABETH. or Betsy: res Knabbie St. v John Inglis, res St David's; female, b 9 Oct 1840; 4/2 No 85; P 143-44

MURRIE, CHRISTIAN: res Hillside, v John McDonald, res Outh; male, b 27 July 1845; 4/3 [26 June & 22 Oct 1847]

NAPIER.,. HELEN: res Dunfermline, dau of dec James N, weaver, St Andrews, v John Wilson, overseer on Edinburgh & Northern Railway at Crossgates; female, b 17 Jan 1848; 4/3 [14 April 1848]

NESS. AGNES: w of David Grandison, collier, Cowdenbeath, v James Steedman, collier, Baldrigeburn; male, b 8 Oct 1832.. 4/2 No 78; P 133-35

NISBET, JEAN : res Kirkgate St, v Robert Meiklejohn, weaver in Dunfermline ; male, b 1 Nov 1839; 4/2 No 68; P 112-14

PATERSON, CHRISTIAN: res. Dunfermline v Alexander Morris, mason, Cairneyhill, male, b 14 July 1852; 4/3 [13 July 1852]

PATTERSON. JANET: res Baldridge Works, v David Duncan, farm servant at Balbougie; male, b 15 Jan 1851; 4/3 [7 March 1851]

PEACOCK, MGT: res Dunfermline, v William Robertson, wright, Baldridgeburn; male, b 28 Nov 1842; 4/3 [22 Dec 1848]

REID, ELIZABETH: w of Samuel Hempseed, feuar/weaver Torryburn, v sd Samuel Hempseed; aliment of wife; 4/3 [23 Feb 1849]

RITCHIE, res Limekilns, v Alexander Mollison, carpenter there; male; 4/2 No 122; P 199-200 [25 March & 1 April 1842]

RUSSELL,. ELIZABETH: res Inverkeithing v William Brown, labourer there ; male; b 17 Nov 1849; 4/3 [19 April 1850]

RUSSELL, EUPHEMIA; res Dunfermline, v Peter Burt, weaver there; female ; b 15 Feb 1850 4/3 [22 March & 4 April 1850]

SCOTLAND, ELIZABETH: dau of William S, weaver, Culross, v Wm Turcan, baker, Torryburn; male, b 10 Nov 1854; 4/3 [1 May 1855]

SCOTT, ISOBEL: res Lochgelly, v Robert Syme, servant to Henry Adamson, farmer, Coulton; male; 4/1 No 154 [3 April 1829]

SEATH, JANET: dau of Andrew S, farmer, St Clairtown, v Robert BETT, journeyman cabinet-maker, Town Green, Dunfermline; female, b 29 July 1838; 4/2 No 39 P 60-61

SERGEANT.. MARY: res South Inglis St, v Robert Brimer, tailor, Pittencrieff St; male, b 22 Nov 1849; 4/3 [10 Apr & 24 May 1850}

SHIELDS: JEAN: res Dunfermline, v William Scott, mason there; female; 4/1 {May 1837]

SMEATON. JANET: res Canmore St, v Daniel Fenton, weaver, Golfdrum; male; 4/1 No 218 [29 May 1835]

SMEATON, MGT: res New Row, v George Comb, weaver, Dunfermline; female, b 20 March 1841; 4/2 No 208; [28 June 1844]

SPIERS, or Muir, JANET: res. Inverkeithing, widow of John Muir, labourer at Vantage, nr Fordel, v John Robertson, sailor in Aberdour; male, b 1 July 1837, to her dau, Janet Muir, now dec; 4/2 No 103; P 172-74

STENHOUSE, ISABELLA: res Kirkgate St, v Alexander Ritchie, carter, New Row; male, b 31 July 1844; 4/2 No 232 [12 Mar 1845]

STEVENSON, JEAN: res Pilmuir, v Robert Marshall, weaver, Gardenersland; male; 4/1 No 142 [3 Sep & 25 Oct 1833]

STEWART, JANET: dau of Edward S, Limekilns, v Charles Arthur, farmer, Meadowend; female; 4/2 No 178; P 314-16; [8 Aug 1843]

STIRLING, AGNES: res Pilmuir St v Alexander Morris jnr, weaver, Cairneyhill; female, b 15 Feb 1848; 4/3 [5 May 1848]

STOBIE, JANET: res Saline, v James Fotheringham, labourer there female, b 2 June 1840; 4/3 [23 April 1847]

TAYLOR. CATHERINE: dau of Joseph T, carrier, Kinneswood v David Donald jnr,weaver Golfdrum; male,b 10 Nov 1853; 4/3 [7 Apr 1854]

THOMSON. ELIZABETH: res Grangemouth, v John MeLachlan, mariner, Aberdour; male, b 2 Dec 1836; 4/2 No 171; P 301-03

THOMSON, ISOBEL: dau of John T, farmer at Loanhead, Clackmannan v Thomas Sinclair, servant to David Fenton, tenant in Rennie's Walls; male; 4/1 No 25 [4 July 1828]

TOD, CATHERINE: pres servant to Andrew Christie, coalmaster, res at Bellyroman, nr Dunfermline v Donald McKay, coach driver, Dunfermline; male, b 12 Dec 1847; 4/3 [9 Dec 1850 & 28 Feb 185]

WALKER, JANET: res Dundee, v John Russell, mason, Saline; male; 4/1 No 260 [21 Nov 1834]

WESTWOOD. JANET: dau of John W, res Nauhead, nr Forrestmill v David Benney, labourer or quarrier, Newmills [Torryburn]; male, b 27 July 1835; 4/1 [20 Oct 1837]

WHITE, ANN: res Dunfermline, v William Grindly, horse-dealer there; female; 4/1 No 254 [20 May 1836]

WHITE. ANN: res Bonnytoun, v James Robertson, plasterer, Inverkeithing; female, b 24 Sep 1846; 4/3 [8,9 & 16 Feb 1847]

WHITELAW, MGT; res Crossgates, v George Harrower, miner, Donibristle Colliery; male, b 10 May 1847; 4/3 [16June 1848]

WILLIAMSON ANN: res Dunfermline, v Henry Moultry, weaver there male; 4/1 [2 & 29 June 1838]

WILSON. -JEAN: res Crossgates, v William Watters jnr, shoemaker there; male, b 30 Nov 1851; 4/3 [30 Jan 1852]

WOOD, MGT: res Limekilns, v William Forret jnr, sailor Halketshall, Limekilns; female, b 23 Oct 1846; 4/3 [9 Mar 1849]

YOUNG, MGT: res Baldridgeburn, v Adam Addison, collier, Cowdenbeath; male, b 7 Jan 1853; 4/3 [June 1855]