Culross Parish Records
The West Kirk was the original parish church before the
Reformation.
After the Reformation, the choir and transepts of the
Monastery of the Abbey were taken over as the parish church. By Charter
of 20 June 1589, James VI erected the rectory and vicarage of Culross
with manse and glebe. The medieval church was dedicated to the Virgin
Mary and St. Serf by Malcolm, Earl of Fife in the thirteenth century.
Ministry began in 1567 in the person of Robert Dykes, minister. In 1672
the barony of Kincardine-on-Forth and the lands of Larg, Sands and
Kellywood were disjoined from Culross and added to Tulliallan. From at
least 1976 the session was within the jurisdiction of Dunfermline
Presbytery, before which it was within the jurisdiction of Dunfermline
and Kinross Presbytery from at least 1955. Prior to that time the
session was within the jurisdiction of Dunfermline Presbytery. On 13
January 1943 the session united with the United Free Church of Culross,
St. Kentigern's. On 1 September 1983 the union of Culross Abbey,
Toryburn and Newmills formed Culross and Toryburn Kirk Session.
- Culross Free and United Free Church:
Culross Free Church was formed at the Disruption and
recognised as a station in 1846. The church building dated from the
following year, but sanction as a full charge came only in 1867. It
passed successively to the United Free Church and the Church of
Scotland, in the latter case as Culross St Kentigern's, which united
with Culross Abbey under that name in 1943. The Church of Scotland
charge was in the presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross and the synod
of Fife.
At the National
Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- CH2/77
Culross Abbey Kirk Session, Culross Abbey and Torryburn Kirk Session
Minutes, 1630-1662, 1676-1684 and 1693-1943; Cash book, 1886-1974;
Collections etc., 1962-1967; FWO cash book, 1966 and 1973-1975;
Baptismal register 1937-1965; Proclamation registers, 1942-1977, Deaths
and funerals, 1855-1893; Communion rolls, 1879-1953 and 1963-1987;
Inventory compiled by Rev. John Gordon, 1909.
- CH3/1397
Culross Free Church Kirk Session, United Free, Church of Scotland, St
Kentigern's
Minutes, 1934-1942; Deacons' court minutes, 1862-1900, 1919-1933;
Baptisms, 1845-1942; Marriages, 1871-1942; Communion rolls, 1878-1905,
1927-1929.
A transcript of these Free Church baptisms has been
published
by the Fife Family
History Society Baptismal
Registers No. 1 and is also available on CD:
| Culross Free Church |
Baptisms |
| CH3/1397/6 |
1845-1854 |
At the National
Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- RH11/18
Culross Regality Court, 1669-1748
- JP28
Small Debt Court book: Culross, 1798-1807.
- B/12
Culross Burgh Records
Protocol book, 1660-1681; Register of deeds and protests, 1713-1801.
On the Records pages of the Fife Family History Society website there
is an index to Culross Burgh Register of Deeds (1713-1801).
At the National
Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- HR/158
Culross parish heritors' records
Minutes, 1755-1927; Cash book, 1846-1912; Accounts, 1905-1927; Papers
relating to buildings, 1907-1927; Papers relating to transference to
Church of Scotland, 1925-1926; Plans of church, 1905-1920, undated.
At the National
Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- VR19
Valuation Rolls: Culross Burgh
1885-1930; the Roll from 1930 is included in the Valuation Roll for the
County of Fife
- VR113
Valuation Rolls: Perthshire
1855-1891; covers the part of the parish outwith the Burgh
- VR101
Valuation Rolls: Fife
1892-1975; covers the part of the parish outwith the Burgh
- B/12
Culross Burgh Records
Register of sasines, 1684-1938; Register of sasines minutes, 1846-1938
At the National
Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- GD1/977
Election record of the Incorporation of Journeymen and Apprentice
Wrights of Culross
Minute book of admissions and annual elections of office-bearers of the
Incorporation of Journeymen and Apprentice Wrights of Culross,
including articles and regulations of the Incorporation, 1815-1842.
At the National
Library of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- MS.3577-8
Books of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross. In MS. 3577 the main
series of minutes, 1691-1793 (ff. 11v-110, 114-76, 178v-188), is
preceded and interrupted by records of entries of apprentices, 1612-77
(ff. 1v-7), elections of Deacons and Boxmasters, 1679-82 (ff. 8-10), of
the Mortcloth from 1737 to 1793 (f. 187), of payments into the Box, etc.
MS.3577. 1612-1793. iii+ 184 ff. Quarto.
MS.3578. 1793-1845. ii + 67 ff. Folio.
At the Fife
Council Archive Centre, Markinch:
- FCC/6/19
Culross Parochial Board / Parish Council
Minute books, 1845-1930.
At the Fife
Council Archive Centre, Markinch:
- Blairhall School
Log books, 1915-1982; Admissions Registers, 1925-2000.
- Blairhall East Grange School
Admissions Registers, 1915-1925.
- Blairhall Junior Secondary School
Admissions Registers, 1944-1975.
- Culross School
School Board Minute Books 1873-1919; Admissions Registers, 1846-1892.
- Culross Geddes Public School
Log books, 1868-1984.
Entries less than 50 years old may contain sensitive personal
information and are not on open access. If you are a former pupil you
are entitled to see your own entry. Please contact the Archivist for
further details.
At the National
Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- E69/19
Perthshire Hearth Tax
The hearth tax return has been reprinted in Perthshire
Hearth Tax 1691-1692 published by the Scottish Genealogy
Society.
- E326
Assessed Taxes Schedules 1748-1802
Culross Royal Burgh & Perthshire
At the National
Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- B/12
Culross Burgh Records
Culross burgh records, 1660-1938, including: Protocol book, 1660-1681;
Register of sasines, 1684-1938; Register of sasines minutes, 1846-1938;
Register of deeds and protests, 1713-1801; Council minutes, 1801-1808;
Register of voters, 1832-1851.
On the Records pages of the Fife Family History Society
website there is an index to Culross Burgh Register of Deeds
(1713-1801).
At the Fife
Council Archive Centre, Markinch:
- B/Cul
Culross Burgh records
Town Council minutes, 1588-1975 (with gaps); accounts, 1696-1966 (with
gaps); miscellaneous legal papers and title deeds, 1658-1880s;
correspondence files, 1971-1976.
At the Local History
Department, Dunfermline
Carnegie Library:
- The more recent archives of the former Burgh of Culross.
At the National
Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh:
- B/12
Culross Burgh Records
Register of voters, 1832-1851.
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