CRAIL BAXTERS, 1647-1743
[Extracted from the Craft Court Books of the Baxter Incorporation of Crail, 1647-1743 (B10/11/8), in St Andrews University Library. The first entry is dated 29 Sep 1647, although there is an earlier entry on Page 6, dated 15 Feb 1646, agreeing to past statutes and allowing them to stand. Then follows election of Deacons, interrupted by new statutes and election of journeymen to the craft. Page 3 lists apprentices as at 29 Sep 1647, and but there are too many to have been indentured on one day, and it is obvious that there are later undated entries in a different, clearer hand. The rear of the book details borrowings from the craft; there are some apprentice and journeymen entries (1721-43), and a list of Freemen, 1733-43]
BALFOUR, JAMES: entered journeyman to William Watson, Aug 2 1708
BAGBIE [BEGBIE], JOHN: bound app to Thomas Young, 29 Sep 1647
BEAN, ALEXANDER: adm Freeman, 29 May 1683
BEINSTON, HENDRIE: app to Thomas Young, 29 Sep 1647
COREER, GEORGE: bound app to James Mitchell for 6 yrs, Feb 22 1738
CHEAPLEN/CHEAPLIN/CHAPLIN
CHEAPLEN, JAMES: bound app to William Watson, 29 Sep 1647
CHEAPLIN, ROBERT: bound app to Thomas Daue [Daw], 29 Sep 1647; adm Freeman, 5 Aug 1658; Deacon (1666); app: William Moncrieff (1663)
CUR, ROBERT: entered journeyman to James Mitchell, 1717
DAW [DAUE], THOMAS: active 1647-59; apps Robert Cheaplin (1647) and John Spence (1647); Deacon (1659)
FLOUKER, NINIAN: son of William Flouker (1); bound app to father for 7 yrs, Feb 6 1689
FLOUKER, WILLIAM (1): active, 1687-1712; adm Freeman, Sep 25 1687; Deacon (1696-98; 1702-04; 1707-10; 1712); sons, Ninian and William (2); app/journeymen: Ninian Flouker (1689); William Flouker (1697); John Hoy (j1708); Robert Millar (j1710); James Mitchill (j1712)
FLOUKER, WILLIAM (2): son of William Flouker (1); bound app to father for 6 yrs, Sep 28 1697
GAY, JOHN: adm Freeman, 29 Sep 1647
GELESPIE [GILLESPIE], JOHN: bound app to Georg Philp, 29 Sep 1647; adm Freeman, 12 Nov 1661
HAY, JOHN: active 1647-48; app Robert Howisone (1647); Deacon (1648)
(HEUBART), ALEXANDER: bound app to George Philp, 18 Nov 1657
HOWISONE, ROBERT: bound app to John Hay, 19 Sep 1647
HOY [HAY?], JOHN: entered journeyman to William Flouker (1), June 9 1708
JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER: entered journeyman to John Wallis, July 14 1715
MILLAR, ROBERT: entered journeyman to William Flouker (1), May 15 1710
MITCHILL/MITCHELL/MITCHEL
MITCHILL, JAMES: entered journeyman to William Flouker (1), June 3 1712 & June 8 1714; adm Freeman, May 15 1716; Deacon (1718-19; 1723-28); son, William; nephew, Robert; app/journeymen: Robert Cur (j1717); George Petrie (j1721); Thomas Philp (j1721); William Young (1723); Robert Mithcel (1731); William Mitchel (1731); George Coreer (1738)
MITCHEL, ROBERT: bound app to uncle, James Mitchel, for 6 yrs, Oct 17 1731; entered journeyman, 8 Oct 1737; adm Freeman, Feb 6 1740; Deacon (1742)
MITCHEL, WILLIAM: son of James Mitchill; bound app to father for 6 yrs, 27 Jan 1731; adm Freeman, July 16 1740; Deacon (1740-41; 1743)
MITCHELSONE, THOMAS: bound app to William Watsone, 29 Sep 1647 (entry scored out)
MONCRIEFF, WILLIAM: bound app to Robert Cheaplin, 2 Feb 1663
MOUGALL, JAMES: adm Freeman, Oct 29 1713
MYRTION [MARTIN], JAMES: bound app to Thomas Young, 22 Dec 1669
PEIRISONE [PEARSON], ROBERT: bound app to Thomas Young, 29 Sep 1647
PETRIE, GEORGE: entered journeyman to James Mitchel, June 13 1721
PHILP, ALEXANDER: prob son of Thomas Philp (1); bound app to father, 29 Sep 1647
PHILP, DAVID (1): prob son of Thomas Philp (1); bound app to father, 29 Sep 1647; adm Freeman, 20 Nov 1661; Deacon (1665; 1669; 1671; 1673-76; 1678-79; 1695); son, David (2)
PHILP, DAVID (2): son of David Philp (1); bound app to Thomas Young, Nov 1 1675
PHILP, GEORGE (1): adm Freeman, 29 Sep 1647; son, George (2); app: John Gillespie (1647); Alexander Heubart (1657); James Wood (1661); George Philp (1677)
PHILP, GEORGE (2): son of George Philp (1); bound app to George Philp (1) for 5 yrs, 29 May 1677
PHILP, JAMES: prob son of Thomas Philp (1); bound app to father, 29 Sep 1647; adm Freeman, 28 Nov 1654; Deacon (1661-62; 1670); app: James Watson (1660)
PHILP, ROBERT: bound app to father, 2 Feb 1669
PHILP, THOMAS (1): Deacon (1646); app: Alexander Philp (1647); David Philp (1647); James Philp (1647); Thomas Philp (1665)
PHILP, THOMAS (2): bound app to Thomas Young, 18 Nov 1657; prob the Thomas Philp adm Freeman, May 29 1683; Deacon (1683-84)
PHILP, THOMAS (3): prob son of Thomas Young (1); bound app to father, 21 Nov 1665; prob the Thomas Philp adm Freeman Sep 25 1689
PHILP, THOMAS (4): bound app under father for 6 yrs, Jan 14 1719
PHILP, THOMAS (5): entered journeyman to James Mitchel, Nov 11 1721
REID, ALEXANDER: bound app to William Watson, 29 Sep 1647
RICHARDSON, JOHN: bound app to William Watson, 29 Sep 1647 (entry scored out)
ROBERTSONE, WILLIAM: bound app to Thomas Young, 5 May 1659; adm Freeman, 3 April 1671
RUSSELL, GEORGE: entered journeyman to John Wallace, May 25 1713
SPENCE, JOHN: bound app to Thomas Daue [Daw], 29 Sep 1647
WALLACE [WALLIS/WALES], JOHN: adm Freeman, Feb 5 1713; journeymen: George Russell (1713); Alexander Johnston (1715)
WATSON/WATSONE
WATSONE, ALEXANDER: bound app to father, 29 Sep 1647
WATSONE, ANDREW: bound app to James Watsone for 6 yrs, 12 Sep 1737
WATSONE, JAMES (1): son of William Watson (1); bound app to father, 29 Sep 1647
WATSON, JAMES (2): bound app to James Philp, 8 Nov 1660
WATSON, JAMES (3): adm Freeman, Sep 25 1700
WATSON, JAMES (4): adm Freeman, Nov 1 1711; app: James Watson (1723); Andrew Watson (1737)
WATSONE, JAMES (5): son of James Watsone; bound app to father for 6 yrs, March 14 1723; loosed from his app, 6 March 1729; adm Freeman, Sep 14 1733
WATSON, JAMES (6): brother of William Watson; bound app to brother for 6 yrs, 18 Sep 1736; entered journeyman to mother, Aug 15 1743
WATSON, JAMES (3,4,5,6?): Deacon (1716-17; 1720-22; 1729-32; 1737-39); a "Jams Watson, present deacon of the beakers," died March 9 1769 and was buried March 11 1769; his relict, Leley Mourray, d Sep 1774
WATSON, JOHN: bound app to father for 7 yrs, 15 Feb 1689
WATSONE, WILLIAM (1): Freeman at 29 Sep 1647; app: James Cheaplen (1647); Thomas Mitchelsone (1647); John Richardson (1647); Alexander Reid (1647); James Watson (1647)
WATSONE, WILLIAM (2): bound app to father, May 5 1657; adm Freeman, 6 Feb 1679; Deacon (1690; 1693-94; 1699-1701; 1705-06; 1711); journeyman: James Balfour (1708)
WATSON, WILLIAM (3): bound app to father, 3 May 1679; adm Freeman, Oct 16 1713; Deacon (1733-36); app: James Watson (1736)
WATTSON, WILLIAM (4): son of William Watson; bound app to the Deacon and his successors in Office for 6 yrs ("nothwithstanding the said William is allowed by the Tread to work to his mother for the years above specified"), 17 Sep 1725; loosed from his app, 17 Sep 1731; adm Freeman, Sep 14 1733; [Note: a William Watson, late Deacon of the Bakers, was buried Feb 24 1774; he had married 03 Aug 1752 Betey Watson, who was buried Aug 23 1786]
WHITE [QUIT), DAVID: bound app to Thomas Young, 1 Nov 1675
WIMES [WEMYSS], ALEXANDER: adm Freeman, Feb 3 1715
WOOD, JAMES: bound app to George Philp, 24 Dec 1661
WYLIE, THOMAS (1): Freeman at 29 Sep 1647; Deacon (1649; 1660); son Thomas (2); app: Thomas Wylie (1647)
WYLIE, THOMAS (2): son of Thomas Wylie (1); bound app to father, 29 Sep 1647; adm Freeman, 7 Nov 1672
YOUNG, THOMAS (1): Freeman at 29 Sep 1647; Deacon (1650; 1672; 1677; 1680; 1682); app: John Begbie (1647); Hendrie Beanston (1647); Robert Pearson (1647); Thomas Philp (1657); William Robertson (1659); Thomas Young (1668); James Myrtion (1669); David Philp (1675); David White (1675)
YOUNG, THOMAS (2): prob son of Thomas Young (1); bound app under father for 6 yrs, 6 Feb 1668; adm Freeman, Dec 5 1681; Deacon (1685-89); app: Thomas Young (1697)
YOUNG, THOMAS (3): prob son of Thomas Young (2); bound app under father for 6 yrs, 28 Sep 1697; adm Freeman, Sep 2 1711; Deacon (1712-15)
YOUNG, WILLIAM: son of William Young; bound app to James Mitchell for 6 yrs, March 1 1723; loosed from his app, 6 March 1729; adm Freeman, Nov 11 1736