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There are 2 cemeteries in Carnock parish:
1. Carnock Churchyard / Cemetery, Main Street, Carnock (grid ref. NT 041891):
2. Cairneyhill Churchyard, behind church, Main Street, Cairneyhill (grid ref. NT 051865):
The pre-1855 monumental inscriptions are listed in "Fifeshire Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) vol. 2 The western parishes" by John Fowler Mitchell & Sheila Mitchell, published by the Scottish Genealogy Society. ISBN 0901061972
Parish / district reference number for 1841 - 1901 censuses: 414
The 1841 return can be searched on the FreeCEN website.
The 1851 census has been indexed by the Tay Valley Family History Society.
Further information on the main Fife page.
The original Old Parish Records (of baptisms / births, proclamations / marriages, and burials) of the Church of Scotland, which cover the years up to 1854, are held in the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh, and copies on microfilm may be consulted in local libraries and at LDS Family History Centres around the world. The baptisms / births and proclamations / marriages (but not deaths) can also be searched at Scotland's People - the online database of Scottish Birth, Marriage, Death & Census records at the General Register Office. The index can also be searched on the LDS FamilySearch website.
Deaths are listed on Fife Family History Society's Pre-1855 Fife Deaths CD.
The old parish records span the following dates (although there may be gaps within these ranges):
| Carnock OPR | Births / baptisms | Proclamations / marriages | Deaths / burials / mortcloths |
| 414/1 | 1652-1756 | 1642-1721 | 1653-1721 |
| 414/2 | 1753-1819 | 1780-1819 | 1753-1819 |
| 414/3 | 1820-1854 | 1820-1854 | 1820-1854 |
| Data supplied by General Register Office for Scotland |
The 1865 Ecclesiastical Directory lists the parish church, the Roman Catholic Church at Oakley, the United PresbyterianChurch at Cairneyhill, and the Free Church at Carnock.
Baptism records for the Associate Congregation (United Presbyterian) at Cairneyhill are held at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
| Cairneyhill Associate Congregation | Baptisms |
| CH3/340/1 and CH3/319/1 | 1746-1760; 1760-1768 |
A transcript of these baptisms has been published by the Fife Family History Society Baptismal Registers No. 4 and is also available on the Records pages of their website.
Kirk Session and similar records for both the parish church (CH2/59) and the Associate Congregation (CH3/340) are held at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh. Some Kirk Session material is to be found in the OPR records (414/1).
Heritors' Records (HR15) are at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths began in Scotland on 1st January 1855. Full information on the main Fife page.
| Registration district | number | start date | end date |
| Carnock | 414 | 1855 | 1967 |
| Dunfermline | 424 | 1968 | 1971 |
| Dunfermline | 432 | 1972 | 2002 |
| Fife | 432 | 2003 |
Registration districts did not necessarily coincide exactly with parishes. In the 20th century especially, there were frequent changes in registration districts.
Fife Family History Society have transcribed a list of Carnock Jurors, 1851 on the Records pages of their website.
| Carnock town centre | Ordnance Survey Grid Reference | GPS | Post code | Lat. 56°5'4"N |
| NT 043890 | 56.084191 -3.539397 |
KY12 9JG | Lon. 3°32'24"W |
Surrounding parishes: Culross, Saline, Dunfermline, Torryburn.
On the Records pages of the Fife Family History Society website there is a transcription of Westwood's 1861 Parochial Directory of Fife.
A Vision of Britain provides historical descriptions, population & housing statistics, historic boundaries and maps.
The Ordnance Survey [Place] Name Books 1850-1854 are held at the Fife Council Archive Centre. There is an index to the entries for this parish on the Fife Council website (select A in the A-Z list, then Archives).
Andrew Campbell has produced Fife Deaths from Newspapers 1822-1854 - a compilation of deaths recorded in local newspapers. Copies of this index are held by the Fife libraries and the Family History Societies.
Fife Deaths Abroad 1855-1900 - a compilation of overseas deaths recorded in Fife newspapers - has been produced by Andrew Campbell of Fife Family History Society. The Society have re-published it in their Publications Series, 26.
The relief of paupers after 1845 was carried out by the Parochial Board and later by the Parish Council. Their records are at the Fife Council Archive Centre.
Peter Higginbotham's website has a lot of information about Dunfermline combination poorhouse.
| Year | Population |
| 1755 | 583 |
| 1801 | 860 |
| 1851 | 3191 |
| 1901 | 1349 |
| 1951 | 4334 |
See also A Vision of Britain for population statistics.
Prior to 1824, wills, testaments & inventories of residents of Carnock may be found in either the Stirling Commissariot (CC21), the St Andrews Commissariot (CC20) or the Edinburgh Commissariot (CC8) records. From 1824 to 1960, commissary business was conducted by the Sheriff Court of Fife at Cupar (SC20). From 1960, it has been conducted at Dunfermline (SC21) Sheriff Court.
Indexes and finding aids are given on the main Fife page.
Local sources worth searching for deeds include St Andrews Commissary Court, Stirling Commissary Court and Cupar Sheriff Court.
School Board Records and / or school logbooks are held at the Fife Council Archive Centre.
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