Persons and Professions in Fife

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James ADAMSONcoal miner, from Weymss Fife Scotland to Yorkshire England in 1910's to serve in WWI and later worked as miner at Micklefield Near Leeds Yorkshire. (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Robert ADAMSON , born early 1870's, coal miner, from Weymss Fife Scotland (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Alexander BEALL, son of Willam Beall, was, like his father, a braboner -- a linen weaver-- St. Andrews, Fife in the mid-1600s. (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
William BEALL was a braboner -- a linen weaver-- St. Andrews, Fife in the early to mid-1600s. (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
William BEALL, son of Willam Beall, was, like his father, a braboner -- a linen weaver-- St. Andrews, Fife in the early to mid-1600s. (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Robert DONALDSON was a joiner journeyman, latter part 19th century (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Jane McDonald DONALDSON, domestic servant in or before 1920, Fife, probably Dumbermline (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
George HENDERSON, mealdealer, Kirkcaldy, before 1854 (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Alexander HYND of Dunfermline, was a coal miner, mid-1800s (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Thomas KNOX, sawyer / woodman, 1830s-40s, Fife (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) William LANG, headmaster of the Laurencekirk schoolhouse in the 1890s (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
David ROBB was a tailor and later a Spirits Dealer in Kirkcaldy. (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
James LESSELS was a cabinet maker around the 1840s (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Thomas PHILIP was noted as a Tobacconist in the early 19th century (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Stephen PARMENTER was in the Royal artillery in 1849 and later in Fifeshire Militia (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
John ROBB was a carpenter in Fife before he went to Austrailia in 1858. (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
John RODGER of Anstruther Fife, rope & sail merchant, 1750s + (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
William SNOWDOWNE, a cotton dryer around 1920, Fife, probably Dumbermline (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
John Hodge SMITH was a Merchant Clerk in Fife (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Ebenezer TRAILL is shown in the 1881 census as living in Auchtermuchy, Fife and working as a wincey weaver (Submitted to Fife ScotlandGenWeb GenConnect byThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
George WEBSTERteacher, writer, using pen name of Linton Cuff or L.C., born March 24, 1823, at Craigrothie, in Ceres parish (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
John WEIR of Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland, coal miner, in 1880 . He was "sent to the pit" (i.e., coal mine) on his eleventh birthday. Became the general secretary of the Fife and Clackmannan Miners Assn. on the Dunfermline Town Council 1885-1903, during the last 6 years, he was one of the Bailies of the Burgh. He was a life member of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust which was established in 1903 by Andrew Carnegie (Submitter: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)