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 EXCERPT FROM THE 1861 PAROCHIAL DIRECTORY FOR FIFE AND KINROSS

 

PARISH OF AUCHTERTOOL.

THIS is a small inland Parish, in the south-western part of the County. It is bounded by the parishes of Ballingry and Auchterderran on the north, by Abbotshall on the east, Kinghorn and Aberdour on the south, and Aberdour and Beath on the west. Its greatest length from east to west is about seven miles, and its average breadth one and a third miles. A range of hills called Cullaloe Hills stands across its west, and has an altitude of about 750 feet above sea level. The rest of the Parish is undulating, hill and dale succeeding each other in most irregular order. There is a small lake a little to the north-east of the village of Auchtertool, called Camilla or Auchtertool Loch, in which the Tiel burn takes its rise. The only villages are Auchtertool and Newbigging, but the latter may more properly be termed a hamlet than a village. Coal is wrought at Little Raith, and limestone, whinstone, and sandstone, are quarried, but the latter is of poor quality. With the exception of a large distillery at Auchtertool village, there is no manufacture or public work in the Parish, unless the Colliery at Little Raith be considered a public work. The village of Auchtertool is in the south-eastern division of the Parish, about four miles from Kirkcaldy, and about the same distance from Lochgelly and Kinghorn. It contains a Public Library and a Savings' Bank. The inhabitants of the Parish are generally engaged in agricultural operations; about twenty hands are employed at the distillery, and a number of miners are engaged at Little Raith colliery. The only place of worship is the Parish Church, but in addition to the Parochial School, there is another in connection with the colliery at Little Raith, and an Infant School at Newbigging.

POST OFFICE, Kirkcaldy, with a Sub-Office at Auchtertool, Isabella Christie, Sub-Post Mistress. -Letters arrive from Kirkcaldy every lawful day about 10.15 A.M. , and are despatched at 1.40 P.M.

 

BOOT & SHOEMAKERS.

Brand, Robert, Auchtertool

Clark, James, Newbigging

Kinninmonth, James, do

CARTERS.

Brown, Andrew, Auchtertool

Kinninmonth, James, Newbigging

Moyes, David, Auchtertool

DRESSMAKERS.

Cant, Miss, Auchtertool

Greig, Miss, Newbigging

FARMERS.

Brown, Alex., Easter Lochhead

Brown, A., & Mrs J., Wester Lochhead

Brunton, William, Thistleford

Kilgour, Henry, Newtown

Kinninmonth, John, Auchtertool

Liddell, James, Kirkton

McRitchie, Mrs William, Craigton

Reekie, Andrew, Jun., Walton

Stewart, Robert, Thistleford

Watt, James, Glentrie & Mill Lands

GENTRY & PEOPLE OF INDEPENDENT MEANS.

Beveridge, Mrs, Auchtertool

Liddell, Misses, Kirkton

Liddell, Miss Helen, Milton, Auchtertool

Morrison, Andrew, do

Reekie, Andrew, Sen., do

GROCERS.

Those marked thus * are also Spirit Dealers,

* Christie, Isabella, Auchtertool

* Clark, William, do

Simond, Mrs, Auchtertool

Simpson, David, do

TEACHERS & SCHOOLS.

Doyle, Miss, Miss Boswell's Infant School, Newbigging

Millar, David, Parish School, Auchtertool

Pitbladdo, ------------- Lochgelly Iron Co.'s School, Little Raith Colliery

MISCELLANEOUS.

Burt & Cairns, Lime Quarry Owners, Auchtertool

Christie, Alex., Baker, Auchtertool

Clark, Thomas, Vintner, do

Johnston, James, Manager, Distillery, Auchtertool

Kinninmonth, James, Carrier, Newbigging. To Kirkcaldy, on Wednesday and Saturday

Lawson, David, Contractor, Auchtertool

Liddell, J., Distiller, Auchtertool House Lochgelly Iron Co., Tenants of Little Raith Colliery

Lyddon, Joseph, Excise Officer, Auchtertool

McEwan, Wm., Blacksmith, do

Millar, David, Session Clerk, Registrar, Inspector of Poor, Collector of Poors' Rates, and Manager of Savings' Bank, Auchtertool

Morris, Robert, Corn Miller, Auchtertool

Paterson, David, Cartwright, Newbigging

Ross, Thomas, Tailor, Auchtertool

Simond, Mrs, Draper, do

Waddell, Mrs G., China & Rag Merchant, Auchtertool

Welch, Rev. W., Minister of Parish

DELETE

Reekie, Andrew, Sen., Auchtertool.

 

 

 

 

 

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