Inverkeithing

The Friary houses a good local museum collection.

The ScotlandsPlaces website lets users search across national databases by geographical location. It includes, amongst other material,

• catalogue entries for maps and plans held by the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh; some maps and plans can be viewed
• photos and details of historical buildings and archaeological sites recorded by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh
• 17th and 18th century tax rolls
• Ordnance Survey [place] Name Books
• an opportunity to transcribe thousands of historic documents

A very good description is to be found in the relevant chapter in History of the County of Fife: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by John M Leighton, published 1840, online at Google Books.

There is a chapter about Inverkeithing in Mercer's History of Dunfermline, published 1828, is at Google Books.

There are 4 cemeteries in Inverkeithing parish:

1. Inverkeithing St Peters Churchyard, High Street, Inverkeithing (grid ref. NT 130829, GPS: 56.031419 -3.39697):

• Pre-1855 monumental inscriptions are in Mitchell & Mitchell (see below).
• Transcripts of many of the older stones were made by Erskine Beveridge in the 1890s. They are included in Publication 37, Monumental Notes by Erskine Beveridge and Robert Monteith, published by the Fife Family History Society.
• A CD with photographs of the stones and transcriptions is available from Scottish Monumental Inscriptions or from The Parish Chest.
• The churchyard was closed in 1864.

2. Inverkeithing Cemetery, Hope Street, Inverkeithing (grid ref. NT 125822, GPS: 56.02548 -3.404375):

• Pre-1855 monumental inscriptions are in Mitchell & Mitchell (see below).
• A CD with photographs of the stones and transcriptions is available from Scottish Monumental Inscriptions or from The Parish Chest.
• The current lair registers for Inverkeithing Hope Street (dating from 1862) are administered by Fife Council, Bereavement Services West, Dunfermline Crematorium, Masterton Road, Dunfermline,KY11 8QR. Tel. 01383 602335. Fax 01383 602665.

3. Rosyth Old Churchyard, via Brucehaven Road, and track from harbour, Limekilns (grid ref. NT 085828, GPS: 56.029798 -3.469519):

• Records of Rosyth Old Churchyard are held at Fife Council Archives or at Dunfermline Library:

  Vol 1	Lair proprietors 1774	Archives
  Vol 2	Lair proprietors 1829	Archives
  Vol 3	The Vault Book 1828	Dunfermline
  Vol 4	Minute Book 1825-1829	Dunfermline
  Vol 5	Minute Book 1830-1880	Dunfermline
  Vol 6	Register of interments 1813-1816, 1865-1884	Archives
  Vol 7	Minute Book 1880-1896	Archives
  	Various other papers, inc. a plan, up to 1896	Archives

• A listing of the Rosyth Old Churchyard Lair Records, 1774-1896, has been published by the Fife Family History Society in their Publication 24.
• Transcripts of many of the older stones were made by Erskine Beveridge in the 1890s. They are included in Publication 37, Monumental Notes by Erskine Beveridge and Robert Monteith, published by the Fife Family History Society.
• Monumental inscriptions are in Mitchell & Mitchell (see below).
• A CD with photographs of the stones and transcriptions is available from Scottish Monumental Inscriptions or from The Parish Chest.

4. North Queensferry Churchyard, Chapel Place, North Queensferry (grid ref. NT 131808; GPS: 56.009107 -3.393861):

• Pre-1855 monumental inscriptions are in Mitchell & Mitchell (see below).

The pre-1855 monumental inscriptions for Inverkeithing Churchyard, Inverkeithing Cemetery, Rosyth Old Churchyard and North Queensferry Churchyard 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

War graves can be seen at the Scottish Wargraves Project and war memorials can be seen at the Scottish War Memorials Project.

Parish / district reference number for 1841 - 1901 censuses: 432. Some parts in 424 from 1861 until 1891 (see Civil Registration).

The 1841 and 1851 returns can be searched on the FreeCEN website.

The 1851 census has been indexed and published by the Tay Valley Family History Society.

Some census records on microfilm may be consulted in LDS Family Search Centres around the world.

LDS Library Film Numbers:

	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891
Inverkeithing	1042702	1042267	103829	103991	203523	208757

(Data provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

Further information on the main Fife page.

In addition to the parish church, other churches included a Burgher (later United Presbyterian) Church in Inverkeithing; a Church of Scotland, a Wesleyan Methiodist Church and a Congregational Church in Rosyth; and a Free Church in North Queensferry.

The Old Statistical Account (written in the 1790s) gives this information about Dissenters:

• "The number of births and marriages cannot be exactly ascertained as there are many dissenters from the Established Church who do not insert their names  in the parish register.
• Rather more than half the inhabitants of the town and parish adhere to the Established Church
• The rest are Burghers, Antiburghers, Relief and Cameronians.
• A Burgher meeting house was built here about 40 years ago.....
• The Antiburgher and Relief are not numerous and attend their meeting houses in Dunfermline.
• The Cameronians, in this place, took their rise a few years ago from a difference among the Burghers, many of whom, along with their minister, joined themselves with this sect. They have no proper meeting house and are occasionally supplied with sermons by itinerant preachers."

The New Statistical Account (written in 1836) gives this information:

• There is a Dissenting meeting house in the town belonging to the United Associate Synod.
• Dissenters - about 1125 persons, Established church - 1625.

The 1865 Ecclesiastical Directory lists the parish church and the United Presbyterian Church.

Information and pictures of the churches at the Scottish Churches website.

Details of church history:

• Inverkeithing St. Peter's Kirk Session:

The churches of Rosyth and Inverkeithing were united in 1611 by the Commissioners for the modification of stipends and the erection of churches. The union of the two kirks was later decreed in 1618 by the Commissioner for the Plantation of Kirks. The church of Rosyth, said to be dedicated to St John, ceased to be used as a place of worship shortly after 1630 and now stands as a ruin. Inverkeithing Church, which was dedicated to St Peter was used as the place of worship from 1630. The Kirk Session of Inverkeithing St Peters sits within the presbytery of Dunfermline.

• Rosyth Kirk Session:

The parish church of Rosyth was opened and consecrated on Saturday 11th July 1931 and the parish itself was later erected quoad sacra by the General Assembly in 1935. Some years prior to the erection of the parish, worship had been carried out in Rosyth from 1916 by the Home Mission Committees of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, with each church in turn supplying ministry for six months and service held in temporary accommodation. In 1919 the Church of Scotland took over work in Rosyth and from August 1920 Rosyth was recognised as a mission station, under Inverkeithing St Peter's. The kirk session, which remains active today, presently sits within the Presbytery of Dunfermline.

• Inverkeithing Associate Congregation (later United Presbyterian, United Free and St John's Church of Scotland) :

The congregtion of Inverkeithing Associate (Burgher) Church was established in 1752, following the presentation of a petition to the Burgher Presbytery of Perth and Dunfermline, signed by around 127 town coucillors, heads of familes, and others resident within Inverkeithing, requesting provision of sermon. The request was granted and in the following year a church with seating for 600 was erected. David Forrest, the first minister of the congregation was ordained in January 1755. In 1847 Inverkeithing Burgher Church became part of the United Presbyterian Church. Following the union of the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church in 1900, Inverkeithing U.P. became Inverkeithing United Free Church and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotlland and the Church of Scotland, the charge was renamed Inverkeithing St John's Church of Scotland. In 1958 a link was established between Inverkeithing St John's Church of Scotland and North Queensferry Church of Scotland and the linked congregation remains active today, under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Dunfemline.

• North Queensferry Free Church, United Free

North Queensferry Free Church began with the provision of regular services from 1874. A church was opened in 1878 and the charge sanctioned in 1881. It passed successively to the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland, but was reduced in status in 1939 and worked thereafter by probationers until 1951. The Church of Scotland charge has been linked with Inverkeithing St John's since 1958. It is in the presbytery of Dunfermline (formerly Dunfermline and Kinross) and was in the synod of Fife until the abolition of synods in 1993.

• Rosyth Congregational Church

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• Rosyth Wesleyan Methodist Church

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Data provided by the  Scottish Archive Network (SCAN)

The Parish Church (Established Church, Church of Scotland):

The original Old Parish Registers (of baptisms / births, proclamations / marriages, and deaths / burials) of the Church of Scotland, which cover the years up to 1854, are held in the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, and they can all be consulted there at the National Records of Scotland. The baptisms / births, proclamations / marriages and deaths / burials indexes can be searched at the ScotlandsPeople website. Copies of the register entries may be purchased.

Parish reference number: 432

The Old Parish Registers (OPRs) span the following dates (although there are gaps within these ranges):

Inverkeithing OPR	Births / baptisms	Proclamations / marriages	Deaths / burials / mortcloths
432/1	1675-1774	1676-1710	1702-1710
432/2	1772-1819	1748-1819	1783-1784
432/3		1698-1749	1698-1843
432/4	1820-1854	1820-1854
432/5 (not on microfilm or fiche index)	1710-1744	1711-1718	1711-1717

(Data supplied by the National Records of Scotland)

 

The Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland, published 1872, provides this information about the content of the OPRs, including the gaps within them:

B.  and M.  intermixed till Dec. 1697. No entries March 1684 - March 1685. The Records of B. and M. 1698 - 1710, and of D. 1702 - 1710, bear to be for 'the United parishes of Inverkeithing and Rosyth'.
B.  blank Jan. 1711 - April 1725, Dec. 1734 - May 1737, and (exc. one entry) Nov. 1738 - July 1744.
M.  Separate Record from April 1698. Blank Dec. 1710 - Dec. 1748, exc. entries of Proclamations 1710 - 1718, and of Contract or Proclamation fees 1734 - 1749.
D.  Burials till 1708. Blank April 1708 - 1710. Deaths till Dec. 1710, then blank till Nov. 1783, after which date Burials. Occasional entries of payments, for ringing the bell at funerals, bet. 1698 - 1815 in vol. 3.
[Subsequent to publication of the Detailed List, a Register was found within the Court of Session records (CS96/3152) which contains, for 'the united parishes of Inverkeithing and Rosyth', Baptisms 1710 - 1744, Marriages 1711 - 1718 and Deaths 1711 - 1717. This is now included in the OPR Records as 432/5.]

Copies of the registers on microfilm may be consulted in some local libraries and at LDS Family Search Centres around the world. The indexes to baptisms / births and proclamations / marriages can also be searched on the LDS Family Search website or on the IGI on microfiche in local libraries.

LDS Library Film Numbers:

1040384 Items 3 - 4	Baptisms, 1676-1711, 1725-1774, 1772-1805; Marriages, 1676-1710; Burials, 1702-1710.
1040112 Items 1 - 3	Baptisms, 1805-1854; Marriages 1748-1819, 1734- 1749. 1736-1743, 1770-1855; Burials, 1783-1784, 1740-1760, 1803-1843; Session book (includes Marriage proclamations and Mortcloth dues [burial records]), 1698-1721.

(Data provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

Deaths / burials are listed on Fife Family History Society's  Pre-1855 Fife Deaths CD.

Further information on the main Fife page.

Kirk Session records are held at the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Heritors' Records (HR279) are at the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh.

At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• CH2/195
  Inverkeithing St. Peter's Kirk Session
  Minutes, 1688-1698, 1721-1744, 1769-1802 and 1839-1960; Poor's Fund Accounts, 1737-1739 and 1764-1802; Cash book, 1735-1764, 1803-1819, 1825-1845 and 1936-1965; Accounts, 1924-1964; Baptismal Register, 1876-1919; Proclamation register, 1856-1977; Communion roll, 1846-1887 and 1902-1949; Electoral roll, 1834-1844 and 1895-1897; Miscellaneous papers, 1666-1918; Midwife's list of children born in Inverkeithing, 1829-1850.

Included in the Old Parochial Registers on microfilm and at the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh but not online:

• Inverkeithing Kirk Session
  413/1
  Minutes, 1698-1721.

At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• HR/279
  Inverkeithing and Rosyth parish heritors' records
  Minutes, 1796-1927; Cash book, 1844-1927

Other Churches:

At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• CH2/1406
  Rosyth Parish Church
  Kirk Session minutes, 1928-1983; Sederunt book, 1977-1989; Board of management minutes, 1932-1984; Fabric and works committee minutes, 1963-1967; Woman's guild minutes, 1949-1953 and 1975-1992; Woman's Guild roll book, 1964-1973 and 1976-1981; Proclamation register, 1932-1944 and 1952-1978; Communion rolls, 1932-1966; Statement of accounts, 1948-1959; Cash book, 1956-1994; Treasurer's book, 1939-1941 and 1949-1990; 1st Rosyth Company BB accounts, 1977-1982; Woman's Guild cash book, 1956-1992.

• CH3/452
  Inverkeithing Associate Congregation (later United Presbyterian, United Free and St John's Church of Scotland)
  Minutes, 1753-1802 and 1820-1881; Marriages, 1756-1758 and 1764-1772; Baptisms, 1756-1758, 1764-1775 and 1821-1847; Manager's minutes, 1776-1818; Proclamation register, 1932-1976.
  The registers are being made available on the ScotlandsPeople website.

  An index to the following records has been published by the Fife Family History Society Baptismal Registers No. 4. It is also available on CD:

  Inverkeithing Associate Congregation	Baptisms
  CH3/452/1	1753-1775

  An index to the following records has been published by the Fife Family History Society Baptismal Registers No. 3. It is also available on CD:

  Inverkeithing Associate Congregation	Baptisms
  CH3/452/5	1821-1847

  The LDS have filmed the following records which may be consulted at LDS Family History Centres.

  889483 Item 5

  Inverkeithing Associate Congregation

  Minutes and marriages, 1756-1852 and baptisms, 1764-1852.

  Original source: CH3/452 National Records of Scotland

  (Data provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

• CH3/1294
  North Queensferry Free Church, United Free
  Minutes, 1878-1927; Proclamations, 1932-1977.

• CH11/24
  Rosyth Wesleyan Methodist Church
  Building committee minutes, 1923-1926.

At the Glasgow City Archives:

• Rosyth Congregational Church
  TD1332
  Minutes, etc., 1918-1925

The Inverkeithing page of the LDS Family Search Research Wiki has more information about church history and records.

Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths began in Scotland on 1st January 1855. Full information on the main Fife page.

Registration districts covering this parish:

Registration districts did not necessarily coincide exactly with parishes. In the 20th century especially, there were frequent changes in registration districts. Parts of Inverkeithing parish were included in Dunfermline registration district, and parts of Dunfermline parish were included in Inverkeithing registration district, until 1891.

At the Local History Department, Dunfermline Carnegie Library:

• Inverkeithing Burgh Court records (from 1903).

At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• B/34
  Inverkeithing Burgh Records
  Protocol books, 1580-1683; Presentment books, 1837-1939; Register of deeds, 1716-1884; Court books, 1605-1801; Warrants of register of deeds, 1802-1884.

At Inverkeithing Museum (at the Friary):

• Magistrates Court Book, 1801-1845.

Surrounding parishes: Dunfermline, Dalgety.

• Geograph
• Flickr

The parish entry in Pigot's National Commercial Directory for the whole of Scotland, 1837, is online at Google Books.

Westwood's Parochial Directory for the Counties of Fife and Kinross for 1862 and 1866 are online at Google Books. On the Records pages of the Fife Family History Society website there is a transcription of the 1862 edition.

Several old gazetteers are available. They all contain descriptions of the parish and many are also worth searching for entries of places within the parish.

• David Webster's Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, published 1819, online at Google Books.
• Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, published 1846, online at British History Online.
• Barbieri's Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of the Counties of Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan, published 1857, is at Google Books.
• Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4) and John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887), are on A Vision of Britain (click on "Historical places and writing").
• Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland(1892-6) on Electric Scotland

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Inverkeithing to another place.

Prior to 1891, Inverkeithing parish had a detached portion entirely surrounded by Dunfermline parish. The village of North Queensferry, on the other hand, was part of Dunfermline parish.

On 15th May 1891, the following subjects were transferred from the parish of Inverkeithing to the parish of Dunfermline: Brucehaven, Milesmark, Whitemyre Foundry, Blackburn, Logie, Urquhart, North Urquhart, Lady's Park and some properties in Dunfermline Burgh.

On the same date, the following subjects were transferred from Dunfermline parish to Inverkeithing parish: Carlingnose, Ferryhills, North Cliff, Fernbank House, Ferrybarns, Rockville, St Margaret's, and the whole village of North Queensferry.

A Vision of Britain provides historical descriptions, population & housing statistics, historic boundaries and maps.

Details of historic buildings and archaeological sites in this parish held by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh, are catalogued at ScotlandsPlaces. In the results, click RCAHMS. Unfortunately, not all entries have digital images.

At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• VR41
  Valuation Rolls: Inverkeithing Burgh
  1885-1930; the Roll from 1930 is included in the Valuation Roll for the County of Fife

• VR101
  Valuation Rolls: Fife
  1855-1975; covers the part of the parish outwith the Burgh

• B/34
  Inverkeithing Burgh Records
  Protocol books, 1580-1683; Register of sasines, 1681-1939; Register of sasines minutes, 1716-1807, 1892-1924; Presentment books, 1837-1939; Register of deeds, 1716-1884.

On the Records pages of the Fife Family History Society website there is an index to Inverkeithing Burgh Register of Deeds (1716-1884).

Historic maps:

• On-line maps:
  • National Library of Scotland map collection - main page
  • For 17th, 18th and early 19th century maps, see the National Library of Scotland map collection.
  • Using the geo-referenced maps at the National Library of Scotland allows historic maps to be viewed on top of a modern map or satellite view
  • Ordnance Survey 6-inch, 1st edition (1855) Fife sheets 35, 38 & 39 at the National Library of Scotland (for the best images), or at old-maps.co.uk or British History online.
  • Ordnance Survey 6-inch editions of 1897, 1920 and 1938 at old-maps.co.uk.
  • Ordnance Survey 25-inch editions of 1896, 1915 and 1927 at old-maps.co.uk.
  • Town plan of Inverkeithing dated 1832 (Great Reform Act plan & report) at the National Library of Scotland
  • A Vision of Britain has the Ordnance Survey 1-inch, 1st edition (1850s) and the Ordnance Survey 1-inch, Popular edition (1920s) - both showing parish & burgh boundaries; Land Utilisation mapping (1930s); and more.
  • Ordnance Survey 1-inch, 1st edition (1857-1867) sheets 32 & 40; 2nd edition (1898-1899) sheets 32 & 40; and 3rd edition (1904-1906) sheets 32 & 40 at the National Library of Scotland.
  • Ordnance Survey 1-inch, Popular edition (1927-1928) sheet 67 and 68 at the National Library of Scotland.
  • Ordnance Survey 1-inch, 7th series (1950s-1960s) sheets 55, 56 and 62 at the National Library of Scotland.
• Paper maps:
  • The National Library of Scotland sells paper and digital copies of their maps (select "Enquiries & copies").
  • The Caledonian Maps Victorian Ordnance Survey Map Series sheets 32 & 40 (reprint of the 1898/1899 1-inch maps).
  • Old-maps.co.uk sell paper copies of all their on-line maps.
  • Ordnance Survey 1-inch, 7th series (1950s-1960s) sheets 55, 56 & 62
  • Alan Godfrey Maps produce a reprint of the large scale 1895 Ordnance Survey town plan of North Queensferry.
  • The best collection of large scale local and estate maps and plans is held by the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh. The RCAHMS also has some plans. They are catalogued on the ScotlandsPlaces website. N.B. Only a few maps and plans are available as digital images.

Present-day maps:

• On-line maps:
  • National Library of Scotland map collection - main page
  • Streetmap
  • Ordnance Survey maps
• Paper maps:
  • Ordnance Survey Landranger (scale 1:50000 -  about 1 inch to 1 mile) sheet 65 - Falkirk & Linlithgow
  • Ordnance Survey Explorer (larger scale 1:25000 -  about 2 and a half inches to 1 mile) sheet 367 - Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy & Glenrothes south

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NT136842 (Lat/Lon: 56.042807, -3.388099), Inverkeithing which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

War graves can be seen at the Scottish Wargraves Project and war memorials can be seen at the Scottish War Memorials Project.

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, 28.

The parish is included in Andrew Campbell's compilation of Fife Shopkeepers and Traders 1820-1870 taken from newspapers and directories. It is available in most Fife reference libraries, in the libraries of the family history societies, and at the Manuscript Department of the Special Collections Department of St Andrews University Library. It is also available as Fife Traders and Shopkeepers on CD from Fife Family History Society.

At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• CH11/18
  Rosyth Wesleyan Methodist Sailors' Home
  Trustees minutes, 1917-1918.

The relief of paupers after 1845 was carried out by theParochial Board and later by the Parish Council. Their records are at the Fife Council Archive Centre. See Public Records below.

Peter Higginbotham's website has a lot of information about Dunfermline combination poorhouse.

There is a page with census statistics from 1755 to 1961 here.

See also A Vision of Britain and Histpop for population statistics.

Probate records are 'Confirmations' in Scotland.

Prior to 1824, wills, testaments & inventories of residents of Inverkeithing may be found in either the St Andrews Commissariot (CC20) or the Edinburgh Commissariot (CC8) records. From 1824, commissary business has been 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 and Cupar Sheriff Court.

Parochial Boards and their successors, Parish Councils, administered many local functions including poor relief.

At the Fife Council Archive Centre, Kirkcaldy:

• FCC/6/29
  Inverkeithing Parochial Board / Parish Council
  Minute books, 1845-1930.

School Board records and school logbooks are held at the Fife Council Archive Centre. Inverkeithing records:

At the Fife Council Archive Centre, Kirkcaldy:

• Inverkeithing Public School
  Log books, 1873-1930.

• Inverkeithing Higher Grade School
  Log books, 1930-1940.

• Inverkeithing Continuation Classes
  Log books, 1893-1914.

• Inverkeithing Junior Secondary School
  Log books, 1940-1956.

• Inverkeithing Public School (later Inverkeithing Primary School)
  Admission registers, 1884-1980.

• Rosyth Kings Road School
  Log books, 1918-1939.

• Rosyth Public School
  Log books, 1914-1929.

• Rosyth Third Public School
  Log books, 1922-1926.

• Rosyth Park Road School
  Log books, 1929-1978.

• Rosyth St John's Primary School
  Admission registers, 1919-1957.

• North Queensferry Primary School
  Log books, 1874-2001; admission regaisters, 1913-2001.

• Inverkeithing School Board
  Minute Books 1873-1919.

• Inverkeithing School Management Committee
  Minute Books 1919-1928; Letter Book, 1919-1931.

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.

Education statistics for Fife schools in 1891-2 list the following board schools in the parish:

"Statistical accounts" giving fascinating insights into the local topography and history, social and economic conditions, and even the daily lives of people, were written by the parish ministers in the 1790s and the 1840s. For more information see the main Fife pages

• The 'Old' Statistical Account is at The Statistical Accounts of Scotland and Google Books.
• The 'New' Statistical Account is also at The Statistical Accounts of Scotland and Google Books.

At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• B/34
  Inverkeithing Burgh Records
  Stent rolls, 1634-1752.

• E326
  Assessed Taxes Schedules 1748-1802
  Inverkeithing Royal Burgh

The hearth tax, clock & watch tax, male servants tax, female servants tax, and farm horse tax are all on ScotlandsPlaces.

See also the Early Taxation Records page.

Towns were usually referred to as Burghs in Scotland.

At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

• B/34
  Inverkeithing Burgh Records
  Inverkeithing burgh records, 1435-1939, including: Protocol books, 1580-1683; Register of sasines, 1681-1939; Register of sasines minutes, 1716-1807, 1892-1924; Presentment books, 1837-1939; Register of deeds, 1716-1884; Court books, 1605-1801; Council minutes, 1689-1830; Guildry minutes, 1590-1903; Letter book, 1828-1839; Minutes of Sailor's Society, 1835-1887; Warrants of register of deeds, 1802-1884; Treasurer's accounts, 1549-1898; Stent rolls, 1634-1752; Writs and papers, 1435-1896.

On the Records pages of the Fife Family History Society website there is an index to Inverkeithing Burgh Register of Deeds (1713-1801).

At the Local History Department, Dunfermline Carnegie Library:

• The more recent archives of the former Burgh of Inverkeithing including Minute Books (from 1831); Account Books (from 1866) and Burgh Court records (from 1903).

At Inverkeithing Museum (at the Friary):

• Burgess Roll, 1813-1883.