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BURNTISLAND FLESHERS, 1685-1835

 

[All entries from the Incorporated Trades and Crafts of Burntisland Minute Book, 1685-1835, now in St Andrews University Library]

 

BAVRAGE [BEVERIDGE], THOMAS: Deacon (1692; 1695; 1700-03); app, James Guild (1695)

 

BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM: butcher in Herlie Hall; Burgess, Nov 6 1741

 

BLACKWOOD, ADAM: Deacon (1712); guilty of "killing and bracking of mett" to David Stocks, Sep 30 1723

 

BLACKWOOD, HENDRIE: Deacon (1686; 1690)

 

BLACKWOOD, WILLIAM: Deacon (1691-92; 1694-95; 1697-98; 1705-08)

 

BOWMAN, DAVID: Burgess, Aug 21 1744; adm Freeman, Sep 1744

 

FORESTER, JAMES: Deacon (1729-30; 1736-39); complaint by him against David and James Robertson, 19 April 1731

 

GUILD [GUED/GOOLD], JAMES: app to Thomas Bavrage, Sep 1695; adm Freeman, 9 March 1700; Deacon (1704; 1709-11; 1713-16; 1720; 1725); complaint against him, 26 March 1721

 

HENDERSON, ANDREW: adm Freeman, 25 Sep 1718

 

HILL, ROBERT: Freeman, Sep 1775; Burgess, Jan 12 1787

 

HUTCHISON, ALEXANDER: adm Freeman, Nov 3 1818; listed Pigot (1825) in High Street

 

KELLSBY, JOHN: adm Freeman butcher, June 1750

 

LESSELS, THOMAS: adm Freeman, Sep 1796

 

MACKIE, DANIEL: adm Freeman, July 1727, on the condition that he came to Burntisland and lived and resided amongst them, otherwise his Freedom and Liberty would be null and void; adm Freeman, 12 Dec 1733

 

MORRIS, HENRY: described as formerly butcher in Lochgelly, when adm Burgess, Nov 23 1787

 

ROBERTSON [ROBESON], DAVID: paid #3 Scots booking money as Freeman, Feb 1724; son, JAMES ROBESON, adm Freemen flesher, Sep 1723; on 17 April 1725 both father and son were called before the Convener Court to be questioned about insolence and for not handing over money due to the Trade; James Robertson was most disobedient, and struck out at the Convener, but missed him, and broke his chair; this led to fines of #4 and #8 for both father and son, with the father to go to prison, until both fines were paid; complaint against them by James Forester, 19 April 1731

 

ROBERTSON, GEORGE: adm Freeman, June 1747

 

ROBERTSON,JAMES: adm Freeman, Sep 1763

 

STALKER, JAMES: Burgess, Sep 23 1747; adm Freeman, Oct 1747; Deacon (1764-65; 1786)

 

STEUART, WILLIAM: adm Freeman, 9 March 1700

 

STOCKS, MICHAEL (d 1831): flesher, High Street, 1796-1831; adm Freeman, Sep 1796; listed Pigot (1825); acc killed, July 6 1831 (Fife Herald July 14 1831)

 

WATTSON, JAMES: described as butcher in Watson's Hall, par of Auchterderran, when adm Burgess, Nov 4 1763; Freeman, Nov 1763

 

 

 

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