Cupar Library
Duncan Institute, Crossgate, Cupar. Tel. 01334
659367, Fax: 01334 659306, email: cupar.library@fife.gov.uk
Opening hours:
Mon: 9.30 am - 5 pm
Tues: 9.30 am - 7 pm
Wed: 9.30 am - 7 pm
Thurs: 9.30 am - 7 pm
Fri: 9.30 am - 5 pm
Sat: 9.30 am - 5 pm
Fife Council's Library webpage.
You can download lists of census
and OPR films, valuation
rolls, directories
and historical
newspapers held by Fife Council libraries. There are also
some source
lists of materials for local history topics held by the
libraries.
Computer terminals allow free access to ancestry.co.uk (for library
members), the Scran collection of photographs, and the Statistical
Accounts for Scotland.
Family History Material held includes:
- Old Parish Records (microfilm) for all parishes in East Fife
- Census Returns 1841 - 1901 (microfilm) for all parishes in
East Fife
- International Genealogical Index (Scotland)
- Register of Sasines - Abridgements for whole county of Fife
1781 - 1946
- Index to Personal Names in Register of Sasines 1608-1609,
1617-1660
- Valuation Rolls
- Monumental Inscriptions pre-1855 in East Fife (Mitchell
& Mitchell)
- Monumental Inscriptions pre-1855 in West Fife (Mitchell
& Mitchell)
- Fife Shopkeepers & Traders 1820 - 1870, vols. 1-8
(A J Campbell)
- Kemback parish census index 1841 - 1891
- Flisk parish census index 1841 - 1891
- Obituaries from the East Fife Observer 1914 - 1959
- Fife Deaths Abroad 1855 - 1900 (A J Campbell)
- Fife Apprentices & Freemen 1524 - 1899, vols. 1-5
(A J Campbell)
- The Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers
(Cecil Humphrey Smith)
- Fife & Kinross Trades Directory - 1862, 1866, 1872,
1937, 1953/4
- Electoral Registers - 1832, 1833
- Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 Black Watch Royal
Highlanders
- Pigot & Co. New National Commercial Directory of
Scotland 1825-26
- Pre-1855 gravestone inscriptions for Angus, Speyside, Upper
Deeside, Bute & Arran, Kincardineshire
- Fife Deaths 1822 - 1854 (A J Campbell)
- Auchtermuchty Monumental Inscriptions (M Bonthrone)
- Auchtermuchty Deaths (M Bonthrone)
- Index of Cupar Tradesmen (from the Fifeshire Journal)
- Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae (1923 edition) vols. 1-7
- Fasti of the United Free Church of Scotland 1900 - 1929
- Ordnance Survey Object Name Books 1850-1854. There is an
index to most of them on the Fife
Council website (select A in
the A-Z list, then Archives).
Pittenweem Burgh Records:
- Valuation Roll 1845-46
- Old Rental Book 1845-80
- alphabetical List of Voters 1832-56
- Assessment & alphabetic rolls 1888-93
- Assessment roll 1893-97 and 1900-07
- Valuation & alphabetic rolls 1877-82
- Valuation Roll 1871, 1878
- assessment 1882-88
Newspapers:
- Courier, Dundee 1926 - present day
- East Fife Record 1870 - 1917
- Fife News 1967 - 1974
- Fife Herald 1967 - 1974
- Fife Herald News 1974 - present day
- Fifeshire Journal 1833 - 1893
There is a series of indexes to the older editions of the
above newspapers, including a
subject index and a name index. The East Fife Record also has indexes
of Births
(1856-1900), Marriages (1856-1900), Deaths (1856-1900) and Obituaries.
The Library also houses an extensive local History collection,
covering the whole of
Fife but with special emphasis on the eastern part of the Kingdom.
While staff assistance and advice are available to help locate
information, it is
expected that those undertaking research are prepared to spend their
own time consulting
sources. In the case of postal enquiries, or those searches which
require a lot of staff
involvement, a fee may be levied, if necessary. Many of the sources are
on microfiche or
microfilm. Copies from film are available. Current charges apply.
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William McM. Owen
: last updated 29 March, 2009
