Fife Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Sermons by Thomas Key (c.1688-1756), minister of Kilrenny
Fonds
Identifier: MS KEY
Scope and Contents
Volume of sermons on Romans 8, preached in Kilrenny, Fife.
Oblong volume with 95 numbered folios. The hand is a very small but is a clear secretary, with some italic features. No shorthand is immediately apparent, but a key is written in pencil on the front board.
From the General Assembly Library.
Dates:
2 December 1738 - 13 May 1739
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Story about MacLeod of Lewis, c1862
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/12
Scope and Contents
Story about MacLeod of Lewis probably collected from Kenneth Morrison, Trithean/Trien, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye. MacLeod of Lewis was a very bad man, who divorced his wife and was related to Am Britheamh Leothasach [Leòdhasach]. The king had sent word to MacLeod of Lewis but MacLeod ignored him and so the king gave the Isle of Lewis to people from Fife. The Fifers began to build Stioirnebha [Steòrnabhagh/Stornoway] but Am Britheamh Leòdhasach had them and their helpers killed.An...
Dates:
c1862
Valuation Roll of Fife
Fonds — Volume Dk.1.19
Identifier: Coll-1874
Scope and Contents
A single, vellum-bound volume, with Fife parishes ordered by Presbytery. Includes a list of voters and of Justices of the Peace.
Dates:
18th Century
Vocabulary note for the place 'Dun Pharlain' and accompanying note about the person 'Banquo', August 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/23
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note for the place 'Dun Pharlain = Dumfarlane' [Dùn Phàrlain/Dunfermline, Fìobh/Fife] and accompanying note about the person 'Banquo' that he 'Sent all who spoke the Saxon and if they acquired English he sent them away.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
August 1903