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1. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1870 Record for David Mortimer Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number:6035516

   Record for David Mortimer
   Name: David Mortimer
   Gender: Male
   Birth Date: 4 Apr 1870
   Birth Place: Scoonie, Fife, Scotland
   Mother: Helen Mortimer
   FHL Film Number:6035516

2. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for David Mortimer Parish: Scoonie; ED: 3; Page: 26; Line: 24; Roll: CSSCT1871_78 1871 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1871 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 2/3 April 1871. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.

   Record for David Mortimer
   Name: David Mortimer
   Age: 62
   Estimated birth year: abt 1809
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse's name: Janet Mortimer
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Leven, Fife
   Registration Number: 456
   Registration district: Scoonie
   Civil Parish: Scoonie
   Town: Leven
   County: Fife
   Address: 4 Murray Place
   Occupation: Gardener
   ED: 3
   Household schedule number: 165
   Line: 24
   Roll: CSSCT1871_78
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   David Mortimer 62 Head. Gardener. Scoonie
   Janet Mortimer 63 Wife. Cupar
   Helen Mortimer 25 Daughter. Scoonie. Mother of David Mortimer
   David Mortimer 1 Grandson. Mother Helen Mortimer

3. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Helen Mortimer and David Mortimer Helen Mortimer: Parish: Kinghorn; ED: 5; Page: 17; Line: 21; Roll: CSSCT1881_121 David Mortimer: Parish: Kinghorn; ED: 5; Page: 21; Line: 9; Roll: CSSCT1881_121 1881 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1881 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 3/4 April 1881. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online Helen Mortimer: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1881Scotland&indiv=try&h=1876957 David Mortimer: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1881Scotland&indiv=try&h=1877045

   Record for Helen Mortimer and David Mortimer
   Name: Helen Mortimer
   Age: 36
   Estimated birth year:abt 1845
   Relationship: Inmate Kinghorn Combination Poorhouse
   Gender: Female
   Where born: Leven, Fife
   Registration Number: 439
   Registration district:Kinghorn
   Civil Parish: Kinghorn
   County: Fife
   Address: Road To Kirkcaldy Kdy Combination Poor House
   Occupation: Mill Lab. Flax
   ED: 5
   Household schedule number: 81/3
   Line: 21
   Roll: CSSCT1881_121
   Name Age
   Helen Mortimer Mother. Leven. Mill. Flax 36
   David Mortimer Son. Leven 10
   And others
   

4. Web Site Information, Record for Helen Mortimer an David Mortimer Helen Mortimer: Parish: Kinghorn; ED: 5; Page: 17; Line: 21; Roll: CSSCT1881_121 David Mortimer: Parish: Kinghorn; ED: 5; Page: 21; Line: 9; Roll: cssct1881_121

   Kirkcaldy Combination, Fife.
   
   The Kirkcaldy Combination was formed in around 1848 and comprised the 4 parishes of Abbotshall, Burntisland, Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy. The total population of the member parishes in 1881 was 23,434. Abbotshall later left the Combination.
   The Kirkcaldy Combination poorhouse was erected in 1849 at a cliffside location to the north of Kinghorn. The site location and layout are shown on the 1911 map below:
   The poorhouse originally had two single-storey blocks flanking its entrance at the east. One of these were probably a porter's lodge. The other may have contained a room for the receiving-officer and/or a probationary ward.
   The main building had two storeys with a T-shaped layout. The centre part contained the Governor's quarters with male accommodation to one side and female to the other. Each side had three dayrooms and a dormitory on the ground floor, and dormitories on the first floor.
   The rear centre wing may have housed the kitchens and dining-hall which in many poorhouses also served as a chapel. A small separate hospital block was later added to the rear of the site. It had two wards, one with 8 beds, the other with 10. After 1930, the poorhouse became the Abden Home Poor Law Institution.
   The surviving poorhouse buildings have now been converted for use as housing.
   
   Staff 1881 Census Inmates 1881 Census
   
   Records
   Note: many repositories impose a closure period of up to 100 years for records identifying individuals. Before travelling a long distance, always check that the records you want to consult will be available.
   • Fife Council Archive Centre, Carleton House The Haig Business Park, Balgonie Road, Markinch, Glenrothes KY7 6AQ. Holdings: Management Committee minute book (1917-28).
   • Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery, Abbotshall Road, Kirkcaldy KY1 1YG . Holdings: Poorhouse Management Committee minute book (1848-82); Furnishing and household accounts (1850-59); Medical register (1883-91); Letter book (1892-95); Register of inmates (1906-45); Poorhouse Diet book (1921-2).
   • Other Sources: From 1866 patient case books for Fife and Kinross District asylum (later Stratheden Hospital) include patients transferred from the lunatic wards of poorhouses
   

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