BURNTISLAND BAKERS, 1685-1835
[All entries from the Incorporated Trades and Crafts of Burntisland Minute Book, 1685-1835, now in St Andrews University Library]
ALEXANDER, ROBERT: app to John Young, Sep 1776
ANDERSON, JAMES: adm Freeman, 25 Sep 1718, having married a Freeman's daughter (Isabel Cowan)
BAIN, JOHN: app to Gray Haxton, Sep 1812
BALLANTYNE/BALLANTIN/BALLANTINE
BALLANTINE, JAMES: app: Michael Kells (1724); m 18 Feb 1720 Beatrice Seaton
BALLANTIN, JOHN: app to Thomas Ballantin, July 1743
BALLANTYNE, THOMAS: app to John Crawford, Sep 1723; adm Freeman, 27 Nov 1729; app: Charles Moyes (1742); John Ballantin (1743); John Young (1757); Robert Oswald (1766); Archibald Donaldson (1776); m 25 Nov 1734 Grissel Ramsay; see Deeds, reg 23 and 24 Aug 1769 (B9/7/1); son, James, adm Burgess, Sep 15 1761
COWAN, JOHN (1): baxter; app: John Creich (1687); James Orrock (1693); John Welford (1698); John Willson (1698); son, John (2)
COWAN, JOHN (2): eldest son of John Cowan (1), Baxter; adm Freeman, Sep 1702; app: John Crawford (1715)
CRAWFORD, JOHN: son of John Crawford yr, wright; app to John Cowan yr, 1715; Freeman by 1723; dead by Nov 3 1756, when son, John Crawford, adm Burgess; app: Thomas Ballantyne (1723); m 23 Nov 1722 Catharine Drummond
CREICH, JOHN: app to John Cowan, 6 Dec 1687
DONALDSON, ARCHIBALD: app to Thomas Ballantin, Sep 1776; Burgess, Oct 28 1777; adm Freeman, Sep 1780; app: Murdoch Salmond (1785)
FORESTER, JOHN: app to Alexander Haxton, May 1822
GREIG, ALEXANDER: app to Charles Scotland, Feb 1708
GREIG, JOHN: adm Freeman, Sep 1831
HAXTON, ALEXANDER: app to John Young, Oct 1771; Burgess, April 2 1784; adm Freeman, Sep 15 1784; listed Pigot (1825) in High Street; app: Gray Haxton (1793); John Smith (1796); James Hope (1800); and John Forester (1822)
HAXTON, GRAY (d 1840): app to Alexander Haxton, Sep 1793; adm Freeman, Sep 1807; d 19 Jan 1840; app: John Bain (1812)
HOPE, JAMES: app to Alexander Haxton, Sep 1800, booking money paid in by Alexander Hope, mason
KELLS, MICHAEL: app to James Ballantyne, Feb 1724
KNOX, WILLIAM: baker, High Street, c 1813-37; adm Freeman, Sep 14 1813; Pigot (1825/37); served as Convener of the Incorporated Trades; m to Jean Taylor; app: John Laverock, 1818
LAVEROCK, JOHN: app to William Knox, Sep 1818
LESLIE, JOHN: baker, High Street; fined four shillings in Sep 1806 for employing a wright who was not a Freeman; Pigot (1825); app: Thomas Martin (1809) & James Morrison (1809); m to Mgt Bridie
LESSELS, JAMES: son of Alexander Lessels, or Lesslie, tenant farmer in Lilliebarton, parish of Burtisland; app to Thomas Orrock; in Jan 1791 Orrock loosed his apprentice "in a most disgraceful manner," 3 week before the expiration of his time, and Alexander Lessels applied to the Convener for suitable redress; Thomas Orrock was summoned to appear before the Incorporation, and was fined 5 shillings (see Minute dated 24 Jan 1791)
LISTER, JOHN: adm Freeman, Sep 1802
LIVINGSTONE, JAMES: son of Robert Levingston, farmer in Bankhead; app to Thomas Orrock for 4 yrs from 15 March 1796 (indenture recorded Oct 11 1797 in RD3/278, Pp 301-03)
LIVINGSTONE, JOHN: app to John Young, Sep 1796, booking money paid in by Andrew Livingstone; adm Freeman, Sep 1801
MARTIN, THOMAS: app to John Leslie, Sep 1809
MILLS [MYLS], DAVID: adm Freeman, April 1730
MORRIS, DAVID: app to Andrew Easdale, Sep 1796
MORRISON, JAMES: baker, High Street, c 1815-55; app to John Leslie, Sep 1809; listed Pigot (1825/37) & Slater (1852); emp 2 men in 1851; after nearly 40 yrs in business, retired in Nov 1855; m Jan 29 1821 Grizel Wemyss
MOYES [MOIS], CHARLES: app to Thomas Ballantin from Whitsunday 1742; adm Freeman, Oct 1748
ORROCK, JAMES: app to John Cowan, Sep 1693; adm Freeman, 22 Sep 1701; m 27 June 1726 Elizabeth Hutton
ORROCK, THOMAS: bound app, Sep 1775; adm Freeman, Sep 1785; in Oct 1797 he resigned from the Incorporation and entered himself as a Guild Brother, but the Deacon Convener and other Deacons were of the opinion that he was not allowed to carry on trading in the town after his resignation from the Trade, and that he ought to be prosecuted for doing so (see Minute dated Oct 10 1797); app: James Lessels (1791); James Livingstone (1796)
OSWALD, ROBERT: app to Thomas Ballantyne, Sep 1766; adm Freman, Sep 1775
RINE, WILLIAM: app to John Crawford, Sep 1764
SALMOND, MURDOCH: son of Henry Salmond, mariner at Wemyss; app to Archibald Donaldson for 5 yrs from 15 May 1785 (indenture recorded 10 March 1788 in RD2/244/1, Pp 717-19)
SMITH, JOHN: app to Alexander Haxton,, Sep 1796
WELFORD, JOHN: app to John Cowan, Dec 1698
WEMYSS [WIMESS], ROBERT: adm Freeman, Sep 1802
WEMYSS [WEEMS], WILLIAM: adm Freeman, Sep 1781
WILLSON, ADAM: app to John Young, Sep 1781; described as "late baker in London, now residing in Burntisland," in Deed in favour of his brother, James Wilson, land-labourer in Burntisland, reg 4 April 1805 (B9/7/3, P 303)
WILLSON, JOHN: app to John Cowan, Deacon of the Baxters, Dec 1698
WYLD, DAVID: adm Freeman, April 1730; Deacon (1733-35; 1737); Deacon Convener (1741-42; 1745-46); m to Marjorie Dewar
YOUNG, JOHN: app to Thomas Ballantin, Sep 1757; later Freeman; Burgess, Jan 24 1766; married to Christian Wyld, dau of Alexander Wyld, tenant in Fordlemiln; sons, John (eldest) & Peter; daus, Deborah, Christian & Helen; see post-nuptial contracts by John Young & Christian Wyld in RD, dated 29 April 1777 (B9/7/2) and June 3 1801 (B9/7/3, P 173) app: Alexander Haxton (1771); Robert Alexander (1776); Adam Willson (1781); John Livingstone (1796)