A burial place described in 1981 as “all locked up and overgrown” certainly suggests an old graveyard or churchyard rather than a municipal cemetery. Pathhead churchyard does seem a possibility here.
It is likely that the Brady family had moved from Pathhead to 8 Maple Street (where they were living in 1942 when Helen died) only a few years earlier. Maple Street was part of Kirkcaldy Town Council’s Hayfield housing development built between 1937 and 1938 and mainly intended to rehouse those living in overcrowded and/or substandard conditions elsewhere in the burgh. However, the family seem to have maintained links with Pathhead. “The Reverend” in the acknowledgements notice was Arthur Morton Price (1911-1983), who was the minister at the Evangelical Union Congregational Church in Pathhead from 1936 until 1944. There doesn’t appear to be a graveyard attached to this church, so Pathhead Parish Church graveyard is probably the nearest burial place.
Pathhead Parish Church was badly damaged by fire in 1953 and, as you suggest, any burial records may have been lost at this time. If you wish to make any further enquiries, you can email the Church <
pathheadchurch@btconnect.com>. Alternatively, you can email the current minister (Reverend Andrew Donald) <
minister@pathhead.co.uk>
Re members of the Buist family, there is a death notice in the Fife Free Press (2 May 1942) for Robert S. Buist who died at 8 Maple Street on 24 April 1942 aged 84. (Presumably the father of Jane Brady m.s. Buist ?) If Fife Bereavement Services can locate his burial record, they may be able to identify other burials in the same lair or nearby. (He is not one of the nine Buists listed at Pathhead Churchyard - with one exception they are all pre-1900.)
Margow
