Ancestry gets Fife records
New records of life in Fife are now available in three collections on ancestry.co.uk.
As part of its partnership with Fife Archives, the family history website has added the Rosyth Dockyard employee books. The dockyard was built in 1909 to strengthen the Royal Navy’s presence on the east coast at a time when Britain was engaged in a naval arms race with Germany. However, the books also hold earlier records of the workers’ employment at other dockyards around the country, so the collection covers from 1892 to 1967 in total.
It contains indexes and images of 18,474 records, including details such as each man’s date and place of birth, his job at the dockyard and rate of pay, and when and why he was discharged from the job.
Furthermore, Ancestry has also digitised the Burntisland 1892 directory and yearbook. The collection records 1,279 residents of the town, primarily male heads of household, including the name of their street and profession.
The 1899–1916 Kirkcaldy war albums, compiled as collections of photographic portraits of Kirkcaldy soldiers, are the third Fife dataset. The first volume covers the Second Boer War and the other three, the First World War. There are images of 1,511 men in all, with their rank and regiment.