David Shiels/Shields of Pathhead, Fife

[rockhopper]

Seeking parents/birth details for David Shiels/Shields born August 1771 Pathhead, Fife. David died 1/11/1861 Kirkcaldy, Fife on Whytes causeway; buried 2/11/1861 Kirkcaldy Churchyard. Henry Shiels a son living in North Richmond Street, Edinburgh was the informant. There is a Memorial Inscription in the Kirkcaldy Churchyard to David and his wife Fanny (Fotheringham Duddingston Mitchell/Mitchel) born 2/11/1786 Lower Largo; died Dec 1845 Kirkcaldy and buried 16/12/1845 Kirkcaldy.
David was a Marker Gardener and the first Pastor (part time) of the Baptist (breakaway) Church in Kirkcaldy. On 22/6/1812 he was living at Barnslee Mains, Markinch; in 1851 at 69 Whytes causeway;1861 Whytes causeway.
Children of David and Fanny Shiels/Shields were - William (1) 13/10/1808 Lower Largo, Henry 17/10/1810 Barns of Bruton, Markinch, Janet (1) c1812 Markinch, William (2) 7/3/1815 Markinch, John 1817 Markinch, Fanny c1819 Fife, Agnes c1822 Dysart, Nancy c1823 Fife, Janet (2) c1824 Kirkcaldy, Andrew 7/2/1825 Kirkcaldy and Mathew 7/2/1829 Kirkcaldy, there may have been a James too
David's parents could be William Shiels 1729 Dysart and Agnes Forsyth/Forsayth March 1729 Falkland? 

[sancti]

As he died after 1855, have you viewed the death certificate on SP? Are the parents names not given?

[rockhopper]

Have a record of his Marriage and Death - but can't find his birth record - Aug 1771 Pathhead - David was 90 when he died in 1861. Haven't found any siblings. Also looked at Kircaldy, Dysart and Gallatown 

[rockhopper]

David's Death Certificate for 1861, Kirkcaldy, Fife from Scotland's People - re his parents names "not given" - he was born in August, 1771 at Pathead, Fife and died on 1/11/1861 at Kirkcaldy, Fife - age 90

[teenybash1980]

Hi. I am currently helping out a friend looking for family. Would you happen to have a John timothy Wright shields in your tree? Died 1980

[hdw]

If you manage to trace your Shiel/Shiels/Shield line back a bit further, you may find a connection to David Shiels and Margaret Macbeth who were married in 1655 at Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy. They had several children in Dysart, including Agnes Shiels who married John Martin in 1703 and Euphane Shiels who married George Martin in 1704, both marriages in Kinglassie. Two sisters marrying two brothers, I think.

I believe that George Martin and Euphane Shiels were my 6 x great-grandparents.

The Shiels (however you spell it) seem to have been a Dysart family, and I have a pencilled note in one of my old notebooks saying "For later Shields in Dysart see Fife Family History Society journal September 1997, p.4ff.

Harry