poor relief : Rosyth and Inverkeithing

[dorie]

Does anyone know where I can access poor relief records for Rosyth and Inverkeithing for the years 1901-1918.

[alisonplenderleith]

Hello Dorie,

If you e-mail the archivist andrew.dowsey[at]fife.gov.uk he may be able to help you. If they have the records there you'll either have to visit yourself or get somone to do it on your behalf as they don't have a transcription service.

Regards,

Alison
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[dorie]

Thanks Alison I will give it a try.

[lindawadwell]

Hi

I am in Rosyth - I will have some free time to visit the library in about a week or twos time.  If you give me the names you are looking for I will see what I can do.

Linda

[dorie]

Hi Linda that is very kind of you to offer to help it is very much appreciated. My great-grandfather John Ferguson moved from Argyll between (I think) 1909 and 1915 and as far as I know the family moved to Inverkeithing and Rosyth. In 1915 I have the family living in Burnside Inverkeithing, John Ferguson died in 1918 aged 63. His wife Ann Sinclair Ferguson died in 1930 at 81 Backmarch Road Rosyth aged 77. Anything you could find out would be a great help in trying to find out more about them. I am hoping they claimed poor relief and that might give me some information about them. Once again thank-you for your offer of help.   Doreen

[lindawadwell]

Hi Dorie

Have you accessed your grandparents death records?  This will give their parents so you can work back.  Have you searched for a marriage record for them? Have you tried finding them in the census records?  I think that you will get the answers you need at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk which charges a small fee.

Iwill have a look at poor records, but you will probably find more luck in the above records.

Linda

[dorie]

Hi Linda

I have spent a small fortune on the scotlands people site and not really found out much. I can trace John Ferguson back to 1871 on the census records and I also have his marriage certificate and death certificate which does indeed give his parents names but I can find no record of his parents anywhere. I can find no death certificates for them and I can't find them on any census records either, it is a real mystery thats why I thought maybe the poor relief records would give a clue to his parents. On the census records he has put his birthplace as Kilmorich but when I wrote to Kilmorich they have no record of his birth or of any family of that name living there at that time. I am also trying to find out if his son  James(my grandfather ) was also living in Rosyth. Thanks for the suggestions but until scotlands people put on the 1861 census  I think I have exhausted that avenue.   Doreen

[lindawadwell]

I will see what I can find out for you.  The extra info might be helpful.  I know what you mean about spending a lot on scotlandspeople!  I will pursue some other avenues for you.  Maybe he is registered under his mother's surname?  People sometimes did not marry until after they had the kids years ago.  His birth place in the census might also be wrong.  People often gave the first place they could remember being.

Linda

[dorie]

Hi Linda

Any help would be fantastic. It gets very frustrating when you keep looking and keep coming up with nothing. Probably someday when and if I find them I will be saying "why didn't I think of that in the first place".     Doreen