Kingdom of Fife

Carnbee

Carnbee Parish Records

Church History

• Carnbee Parish Church:

The old parish church of Carnbee, which was rebuilt in 1793, belonged prior to the reformation to the Abbey of Dunfermline and the session records ministry from 1564, in the person of William Scott. In 1971 the Kirk Session of Carnbee, which sits within the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of St Andrews, established a link with Pittenweem.
 

• Carnbee Free and United Free Kirk Session:

The church of the Free Church of Carnbee was built in Arncroach and opened in 1845, but the charge, partly due to an attempt to unite the congregation with that of Pittenweem, wasn't sanctioned until 1851. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, Carnbee Free Church became Carnbee United Free Church and in 1921 the name of the charge was changed to Carnbee and Bonerbo, due to the existence of a mission hall at Bonerbo. Following the 1929 union of the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland, Carnbee and Bonerbo joined with the parish church congregation of Carnbee, under the name of Carnbee, and in 1950 the Bonerbo mission hall was disposed of. In 1971 the Kirk Session of Carnbee, which sits within the Presbytery of St Andrews, established a link with Pittenweem.

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Church Records

At the Special Collections Dept. of St Andrews University Library:

• CH2/1032
  Carnbee Kirk Session
  Minutes and accounts, 1742-1748; Accounts, 1761-1847; Minutes, 1817-1860 and 1905-1971; Cash book, 1847-1971; Communion roll, 1882-1979; Contract between the Earl of Kellie and David Ness, anent building a new church at Carnbee, 1793; Register of marriages, 1849-1977; Two boxes of miscellaneous papers.

• CH3/1030
  Carnbee Free Church, United Free
  Minutes, 1852-1929; Deacon's Court minutes, 1856-1929; Communion roll, 1880-1922; Cash book, 1917-1929; Baptismal register, 1869-1894 and 1908-1926.

Included in the Old Parochial Registers on microfilm and at the ScotlandsPeople Centre, Edinburgh but not online:

• Carnbee Kirk Session
  • 413/1
    Minutes, 1646-1699.
  • 413/3
    Minutes, 1705-1760.

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Heritors' Records

At the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• HR/82
  Carnbee parish heritors' records
  Minutes, 1787-1930; Cash book, 1847-1930.

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Parochial Board  /  Parish Council Records

At the Fife Council Archive Centre, Markinch:

• FCC/6/13
  Carnbee Parochial Board / Parish Council
  Minute books, 1848-1930; Letter book, 1858-1867.

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School Records

At the Fife Council Archive Centre, Markinch:

• Arncroach Primary School
  Log books, 1874-1985.

• Carnbee Public School
  Log books, 1873-1975; School Board Minute Books, 1873-1919.

• Ovenstone Residential Special School
  Log books, 1970-1995.

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