BURNTISLAND SHOEMAKERS, 1685-1835

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

ALLAN, ROBERT: app to James Henderson, Sep 1747; adm Freeman, Sep 17 1756; Deacon (1764)

ANDERSON, JAMES: bound app to John Young at Whitsunday 1686

BEVERIDGE [BEVRADGE], DAVID: app to James Cowan, Aug 1824

BROWN, ARCHIBALD: Burgess, June 29 1739; adm Freeman, Sep 1739; m 20 April 1739 Elizabeth Mill; son, John (Burgess, Nov 20 1767); daus: Janet (eldest), Elizabeth (2nd, m to James Cowan, shipmaster in Burntisland), Agnes (yst); see his Disp and also that of his son, John Brown, in RD (B9/7/2)

BUTLER, JAMES: app to William Butler, July 1769

BUTLER, WILLIAM: Burgess, Sep 20 1763; adm Freeman, April 1764; Deacon Convener (1782-83); app: Moses Sutherland (1766) & James Butler (1769); Charles Wilson (1774); ALEXANDER BUTLER listed by Pigot (1837) at Shore

BUCHANAN, JOHN: adm Freeman, Sep 1803; active, 1803-20; Deacon Convener (1811-12; 1818-19); had left Burntisland by July 1820, when he was recorded in a minute (28 July 1820) as having "shifted out of the place;" app: Robert Slimmont (1803); James Ferguson (1809); Robert Glass (1814)

COVENTRIE, WILLIAM: active from at least 1689-1724; Deacon (1690); was Boxmaster in 1724 when, in Oct 1724, he was fined #1.10s for being unable to substantiate a libel he had brought against the Convener and Deacons of Trade (see Minute dated Oct 13 1714); app: Alexander Johnston (1689)

COWAN, ANDREW: adm Freeman, Sep 1805; app: David Henderson (1805); Robert Glass (1815)

COWAN, ARCHIBALD: adm Freeman, Sep 1805

COWAN, JAMES (d 1869): boot & shoemaker, High Street, c 1814-69 was b Burntisland, c 1795; adm Freeman, Sep1 16 1814; listed Pigot (1825/37); emp 3 men in 1851 & 6 men and 1 boy in 1861; by the latter yr had taken his son, WILLIAM COWN (b June 14 1835), into partnership under the firm of JAMES COWAN & SON; he d Sep 13 1869; m Dec 6 1816 Ann Dewar; app: David Beveridge (1824); David Robertson (1825)

COWAN, JAMES: adm Freeman, Sep 1818

DAVIDSON, JAMES: app to James Henderson, July 1769

DEAS, JOHN: app to Thomas Jamieson, Sep 1700; adm Freeman, Sep 1709; Deacon (1716-17)

DEWAR, ALEXANDER: app to John Greig, Sep 1812

DOBSON, ADAM (1): adm Freeman, Sep 1801; son, Adam (2)

DOBSON, ADAM (2): son of Adam Dobson; app to John Greig, Sep 1816

FERGUSON/FARGUSON/FIRGSON

FERGUSON, JAMES: boot & shoemaker, High Street, c 1820-33; son of John Ferguson (d July 12 1815 aged 45) of Burntisland; app to John Buchanan, Sep 1809; adm Freeman, Sep 22 1820; listed Pigot (1825); m Feb 19 1821, Betty Lonie of Leith (she d Nov 9 1833 aged 34); son, John, b July 12 1827

GILMORE, ROBERT: a free app, Sep 1775; Burgess, April 23 1782; adm Freeman, Sep 1782

GLASS, ROBERT: son of William Glass; app under John Buchanan, Sep 1814, and then under Andrew Cowan, Sep 1815

GREIG, JOHN: adm Freeman, Sep 1805; listed Pigot (1825) at Shore; Deacon (1832); app: James Wat (1805); Alexander Dewar (1812); Adam Dobson (1816)

HENDERSON, DAVID: app under Archibald and Andrew Cowan, 18 Sep 1805; commenced business at the Shore in c 1819; listed Pigot (1825); adm Freeman, Sep 10 1830; by 1837 he had removed to the High Street; Westwood (1862/66) gives his address as Harbour Place; m Feb 19 1819 Janet Cowan

HENDERSON, JAMES (1): Burgess, Nov 19 1744; adm Freeman, Sep 1747; app: Robert Allan (1747); James Henderson (1764); James Davidson (1769); James Morison (1774); Robert Jack (1776)

HENDERSON, JAMES (2): app to James Henderson (1), Sep 1764; adm Freeman, Sep 1772; in Sep 1781 was excluded from all rights and priveleges belonging to his Trade for "disagreen with his brithren" (see Minute dated Sep 7 1781)

HENDERSON, THOMAS: adm Freeman, Dec 1814

INGLES, WILLIAM: app to David Moyes, Sep 1803

JACK [JAK], ROBERT: app to James Henderson, Sep 1776; Burgess, Oct 27 1785; adm Freeman, Feb 1786

JAMIESON, THOMAS (d 1739): adm Freeman, 26 Sep 1696; Deacon (1706-07; 1725-26); Kirk Beadle; d June 26 1739 aged about 70; m 24 July 1719 Mgt Ruthven of Auchtertool; app: John Deas, 1700

JONSTON, ALEXANDER: app to William Coventrie, 19 Sep 1689

KELLOK: mother, (Bofrag) Kellok paid for her son's app to John Young, late Deacon of the Shoemakers, 17 April 1690

LEITCH [LEECH], PETER: boot and shoemaker, High Street, 1820-75 adm Freeman, Sep 1820; listed Pigot (1825/37), Slater (1852/67) & Westwood (1862/66); retired, Feb 1875, and sold business to Messrs Beatson & Sutherland of Edinburgh; m June 30 1823 Elizabeth Morton

MILL, WALTER (1): adm Freeman, Dec 1733; m 17 May 1734 Janet Mill

MILLS (or MILN), WALTER jnr (2): Burgess, Jan 5 1739; adm Freeman, Sep 1739; m 12 Jan 1751 Jean Miln

MORISON, JAMES: app to James Henderson, Sep 1774

MOYES, DAVID: adm Freeman, Sep 1801; app: William Ingles (1803) and Alexander Stewart (1807)

MURRAY, JAMES: shoemaker, Braehead of Burntisland; Burgess, Dec 12 1759; adm Freeman, Sep 1760

MURRAY, ROBERT: son of above James Murray; Burgess, Nov 8 1776; adm Freeman, as Freeman's eldest son, Nov 12 1776; Deacon (1786)

ROBERTSON, DAVID (d 1871): was b Burntisland, c 1806; app to James Cowan, Sep 1825; adm Freeman, Sep 1832; listed Pigot (1837) at Shore; emp 3 men and 1 app in 1851; by 1861 he had removed to the High Street; Westwood (1862/66); d April 28 1871 aged 68

SCOT, WILLIAM: app to John Young yr, Nov 1717

SLIMON, HENDERSON: adm Freeman, Sep 1830

SLIMMONT, ROBERT: app to John Buchanan, Sep 1803

SMITH, JAMES: prob son of William Smith (1); married to Janet Brown; children, William (2), Nelly and Margaret; see Disp, RD (B9/7/2)

SMITH, WILLIAM (1): booking money rcd for app, 16 Sep 1724; Deacon (1727; 1731; 1749-50); Deacon Convener (1778-79); m 15 Jan 1719 Helen Stobie; Disp in favour of George Heggie, merchant in Kirkcaldy, 27 Aug 1782 (B9/7/2)

SMITH, WILLIAM (2): son of James Smith; Burgess, Jan 1 1771

STEWART, ALEXANDER: app to David Moyes, Sep 1807

SUTHERLAND, MOSES: app to William Butler, Sep 1766; Burgess, March 8 1786; adm Freeman, Oct 1786

WAT, JAMES: app to John Greig, Sep 1805

WILSON, CHARLES: son of David Wilson, mariner in Burntisland; app to William Butler for 4 yrs, 16 May 1774 (Deed, reg 26 Dec 1776 - B9/7/2)

WILSON, WILLIAM: Burgess, Aug 25 1788

YOUNG, ALEXANDER: Deacon (1709; 1720; 1736); m to Isable Black, who d April 1742

YOUNG, JOHN: Deacon (1689; 1692-95; 1698-1704; 1710-13); m pre 1702 Isabell Scott, who d Dec 26 1738; app: James Anderson (1786); Kellok (1690)

YOUNG, JOHN yr: son of John Young, Deacon of the Shoemakers; adm Freeman, 22 Sep 1701; Deacon (1714-16; 1735; 1737-39); app: William Scot (1717)