CRAIL SQUAREMEN (or WRIGHTS), 1668-1743
[Extracted from the Craft Court Minute Book, 1668-1743 (B10/11/9), now in St Andrews University Library. The book opens with listings of apprentices, journeymen and Freemen (1668-1743), 3 pages at the back of the book also containing further entries. Acts and Statutes of Trade are to be found at Pages 18-49]
ADAMSON, HENRY: entered journeyman to James Russell, Feb 5 1719; adm Freeman, June 8 1719; app: James Lothian (1721)
ANDERSON, ALLAN: adm Freeman, Oct 1705
ANGUS [ANGOUS], JOHN: bound app to his father, 1689-1693
ARMOUR, JAMES: entered journeyman to James Masson, 2 June 1714
BAXTER [BAKSTER], JAMES: entered journeyman to William Philp [Filepe], March 30 1720
BALFOUR, ROBERT (d 1763): active c 1717-1763; Bailie of Burgh; d April 1763 aged 77; widow, Isabella Brown, d 19 Nov 1769 in 76th yr (see Beveridge, P 221-222; 225-226); apprentices: George Dewar (1717); William Brown (1722)
BEGBIE [BAGBEE], GEORGE: 2nd lawful son of George Bagbee, late Deacon of the Shoemakers in Crail; bound app under William Brown jnr, late Deacon, for 5 yrs, 24 May 1762 [Burgh Records, Indenture to be found in B10/14/658]
BEGBIE [BAGBIE], THOMAS: app to John Mourow [Murray], 1687-94
BLACK, JAMES: entered journeyman to William Philp, Sep 15 1718
BONTRN (BONTHRON), ALEXANDER: entered journeyman to William Philp, Oct 18 1731
BOUSEY/BOWSEY/BOUSIEY
BOUSEY, GEORGE (b 1711) : wheelwright; b Ceres, 16 Dec 1711, son of John Bousey and Agnes Cochren; bound app to his father for 6 yrs, from Feb 12 1725 - Feb 12 1731; entered journeyman to father, April 23 1731
BOUSEY, JOHN: wheelwright; adm Freeman, April 1 1715, as wheelwright only; "he and his Children is in no ways to work aniey part of syer wright work....if he shal work anie wright work, hie is to pay the sum of twenty punds Scots, aiey, and as oft as he shal be found guilty;" m to Agnes Cochren; son, George; another son, John, b Crail, 26 Feb 1716; app: George Bousey (1725)
BROWN, ALEXANDER: bound app, Nov 30 1668; app to cont till 1673; son, James; app: James Brown (1703)
BROWN, ALEXANDER: bound app to James Russel from 24 March 1709 - 24 March 1716; Deacon (1734-35; 1740); app/journeymen: Robert Prudit (j1720); John Murens (1737); David Brown (j1737)
BROWN, DAVID: entered journeyman to Alexander Brown, 4 Aug 1737
BROWN, JAMES: bound app to his father, Alexander Brown, 1703, to serve him till 1710
BROWN, JOHN: entered journeyman to William Philp, 6 June 1715; adm Freeman, 18 May 1719; app: David Hendryson (1721); Archibald Jacksone (1730); Daniel Clark (1731)
BROWN, WILLIAM: bound app to Robert Balfour for 6 yrs from June 15 1722; adm Freeman, Dec 28 1732; Deacon (1738-39); Beveridge (P 237-238) records a William Brown, wright, bap 13 Nov 1702, son of John Brown and Christian Brydie, who d 28 Dec 1788 aged 86; married to Elspat Watson, who d 10 Nov 1785 aged 87; son, Henry; if the two are the same person, it means that he began his app aged c 20yrs, which seems rather old; app/journeymen: George Ross (j1735); Thomas Dove (1736)
CLARK, DANEL: bound app to John Brown for 7 yrs from Dec 14 1731 - Dec 13 1738; entered journeyman to John Brown, Feb 28 1739; adm Freeman, Oct 16 1742
CLARK, WILLIAM (d 1769?): wheelwright; adm Freeman, March 9 1737; poss the "Willeam Clark, present bealey of the Brough of Crail," who was buried 2 June 1769 (Beveridge, P 272); journeyman: James Duncan (1737)
CRAWFORD [CRAFOORTHE], - [Page cut]: entered journeyman, c 1702
DEWAR [JUER], GEORGE: bound app to Robert Balfour for 4 yrs, Nov 25 1717, but "without the liberty of his fridom"
DOIG, HENRY: active, 1706; son, John; app: John Doig (1706)
DOIG [DOOG], JOHN: bound app to father, Hendry Doog for 7 yrs and 1 yr meat and fie, Feb 7 1706
DOVE, THOMAS: bound app to William Brown for 6 yrs from 22 Sep 1736; did not complete the app, for at the side is written later: "THomas Dove hath made Breack of this Indenter"
DUNCAN [DOUNCAN], JAMES: entered journeyman to William Clark, Sep 2 1737
EARMORT, JOHN: entered journeyman, c 1707
HAXTON [HAEXTEN], TAMAS (THOMAS): entered journeyman to Wilem Fielep [William Philp], March 30 1720
HENDRYSON, DAVID: bound app to John Brown for 4 yrs from Dec 30 1721, but was "not to be a freman amongst ye Brethern, not serving ye space of 6 yrs"
HORSBURGH, JAMES: bound app to William Fhielep [Philp] from 23 Feb 1714 - 23 Feb 1720; adm Freeman, March 2 1726; Deacon (1733); found guilty of committing actions in the Tolbooth [counter-voting], "contrary to the weel fair of the Craft," and was fined #5 Scots (Minute dated Sep 26 1733)
INGLIS, ALEXANDER: adm Freeman, 3 Oct 1705; for his "saverall abuses" done to the Trade, from a Minute dated 22 Sep 1715, he was not to attend any further meetings, in return for which the Trade were to discharge him of all debts owed by him, with the exception of one bond; son, James; app: James Inglis (1719)
INGLES, JAMES: son of Alexander Ingles; bound app to father for 6 yrs, May 18 1719 - May 18 1725
JACKSONE, ARCHIBALD: entered journeyman to John Brown, 23 Sep 1730
JAMESON, WILLIAM: entered journeyman (N.D.)
LEECH, JOHN: bound app to William Fielep [Philp] for 6 yrs, Nov 11 1719 - Nov 11 1725
LOMSDAEL, ROBERT: entered journeyman to James Mason, March 30 1720
LOTHIAN, JAMES: bound app to Henry Adamsone for 5 yrs, Dec 28 1721, but "is not to be a freeman amongst the brethern of his Craft, not serving 6 years"
McKIE/MACKAY
McKIE, ALEXANDER: wheelwright; son of John McKie; bound app to his father for 6 yrs, Feb 18 1737
McKIE, JOHN (d 1767): wheelwright; adm Freeman, march 16 1733; d Sep 30 1767 in 75th yr; married Kingsbarns, 17 July 1730 Barbra Harrow, who d 6 Nov 1752 in 47th yr (see Beveridge, P 247-248); app: Alexander McKie (1737)
MARTIN [MERTEN], THOMAS: entered journeyman, Sep 1691
MASON, JAMES: adm Freeman, 5 Dec 1702; app/journeymen: James Armour (j 1714); James Neilson (1718); Robert Lomsdael (j1720); James Thomson (j1720)
MILLAR, DAVID: bound app to James Russell for 5 yrs, Dec 24 1717 - Dec 24 1722
MONRO, JOHN: app: Thomas Bagbie (1687)
MORTON (MOURON), JOHN: bound app to Thomas Darbie, 1689-1694; entered journeyman, Oct 1702
MURRAY [MORROU], JOHN: bound app to Alexander Brown for 6 yrs, 17 March 1737
MURRAY, ROBERT: bound app to James Russell, elder, for 6 yrs, Sep 28 1728; did not complete his app, for underneath is written: "Robert Murray hath made a Breack of his Indenter"
NEWING, THOMAS: journeyman to William Philp, 2 June 1714
NEILSON [NILSONE], JAMES: bound app to James Measone (Mason) for 7 yrs, 9 Dec 1718 - 9 Dec 1725
PHILP, DAVID: Freeman, active 1691-1714; sons, David & William; app: David Philp (1691); William Philo (1698); James Russell (s1699); John Wilson (1703); Alexander Wilson (1714)
PHILP, DAVID: son of David Philp; bound app under father, 3 April 1691; entered journeyman to father, May 1699
PHILP, WILLIAM: son of David Philp; bound app to father for 6 yrs, Sep 21 1698; adm Freeman, 7 Dec 1704; app/journeymen: James Horsburgh (1714); Thomas Newing (j1714); John Brown (j1715); James Black (j1718); John Leech (1719); James Baxter (j1720); Thomas Haxton (j1720); Alexander Bonthron (j1731)
PRUDIT, ROBERT: entered journeyman to Alexander Brown, 16 Jan 1720
REIKIE/REIKE/RIKIE
RIKIE, JOHN: adm Freeman, 6 Jan 1702; app/journeymen: Thomas Reikie (j1702); William Reikie (j1702); William Robertson (1703)
REIKE, THOMAS: entered journeyman to John Reike, Oct 15 1702
REIKE, WILLIAM: entered journeyman to John Reike, Oct 15 1702
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM: bound app to John Rikie, 1703-09
ROSS, GEORGE: entered journeyman to William Brown, 2 June 1735
RUSSELL, JAMES (1): entered journeyman to David Philp, c 1699; afterwards Freeman; son, James (2); app: Alexander Brown (1709); David Millar (1717); Henry Adamson (j1719); James Russell (1721); Robert Murray (1728)
RUSSELL, JAMES (2) (d 1780): bound app under father, JAMES RUSSELL, for 6 yrs, 15 April 1721 - 15 April 1727; Deacon (1736); buried 18 March 1780; married 12 Feb 1733 Helen Bagbie (see Beveridge, P 272)
SHORT, JAMES: adm Freeman, 24 May 1743; the will of a James Short, wright in Sauchop, recorded 3 Nov 1763
TAMESON, JAIMES (JAMES THOMSON): entered journeyman to Jaemes Maesoen [James Mason], 30 March 1720
WILSON/WILLSON
WILSON, ALEXANDER: bound app to David Philp, May 15 1714 - May 15 1720
WILLSON, JOHN: bound app to David Philp, 1703, to serve him till the year 1712