John ALLAN d 1784 Elie

[Duncan32]

Thank you both for your responses - you have both provided a lot of information for me to follow up on, so that will keep me out of trouble for a while !!

Best wishes
Duncan

[Duncan32]

And just to thank you Harry for the book recommendation - it has now come and I'm enjoying reading it !! Would you know if there are other similar books for any of the surrounding villages in the East Neuk area?

[hdw]

Good, I'm glad you're enjoying it.

For Elie itself, see Archie Rennie "The Harbours of Elie Bay. A History" (Elie and Earlsferry History Society, 2008).

For Fife villages generally, Raymond Lamont Brown "Discovering Fife" (John Donald, 1988).

My own book "Kilrenny and Cellardyke: 800 Years of History" was published by John Donald in 1986 and is now available from Birlinn -

https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Kilrenny-and-Cellardyke-9781904607083.html

A sister book to that one was Stephanie Stevenson "Anstruther. A History" (John Donald, 1989)

I don't think there is a good up-to-date history of Pittenweem.

There are several books about Crail:

John Murray "A Crail Scrapbook" (Crail Museum Trust, 2010)
Thomas Riis "Crail and its Fisheries 1550-1600" (The Strathmartine Press, 2016)
Crail Museum Trust "Looking Back. Crail in the 1920's and 30's" (2010)

And if you Google Stenlake Publishing, you'll get a full list of their excellent little books of old photographs of Fife villages with very informative captions.

Happy reading!

Harry

[Duncan32]

Thanks for these recommendations Harry - that's my Christmas list sorted !!