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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Mary Leitch: Birth: 1894 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland. Death: BEF 1921

  2. John Wilson Leitch: Birth: 1897 in Wemyss Parish, Fife, Scotland. Death: 14 APR 1920 in Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

  3. Andrew Rattray Leitch: Birth: 21 MAR 1898 in Windygates, Fife, Scotland. Death: 28 SEP 1940 in Thornton Fever Hospital, Fife, Scotland

  4. Annie Rattray Leitch: Birth: 22 JAN 1900 in Fernhill, Windygates, Fife, Scotland.

  5. James Wilson Leitch: Birth: 7 OCT 1901 in Fernhill, Windygates, Fife, Scotland.

  6. Person Not Viewable

  7. Person Not Viewable

  8. Person Not Viewable

  9. Agnes Wilson Leitch: Birth: 7 MAY 1909 in The Cottage, Cameron Bridge, Windygates, Fife, Scotland. Death: 1909


Family
Marriage: Children:

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Sources
1. Title:   1901 Scotland Census Ancestry.com
Page:   Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Markinch; ED: 2; Page: 10; Line: 8; Roll: CSSCT1901_144 1891 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. 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
2. Title:   1881 Scotland Census Ancestry,com
Page:   Record for John Leitch Parish: Aberdour; ED: 4; Page: 16; Line: 22; Roll: cssct1881_113 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
3. Title:   1891 Scotland Census Ancestry.com
Page:   Record for John Leitch Parish: Wemyss; ED: 3; Page: 2; Line: 18; Roll: CSSCT1891_141 1891 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. 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
4. Title:   1911 Scotland Census Scotlands People
Page:   1911 LEITCH, ANDREW (Census 447/2 3/ 14) Page 14 of 24 Parish: Markinch 1911 Scotland Census [Scotlandspeople.com] [Ancestry.com] The 1911 census was taken on Sunday 2 April under provisions in the Census (Great Britain) Act 1910. The records were released on 5 April 2011 following the end of their 100 year closure period. There were new questions relating to fertility of marriage: on duration of marriage; the number of living children born to each marriage; and the number alive at the time of the census. There were changes to several others: categories for people with disabilities were revised and the introductory section to the third report on the 1911 census refers to the intended use of the terms as: lunatic - in cases where the infirmity had been acquired during life imbecile - in extreme cases where the infirmity had existed from birth or an early age feeble-minded - in milder cases where the infirmity had existed from birth or an early age.
5. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855)
Page:   1876 LEITCH, ANDREW (Statutory registers Births 424/1 56)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
6. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855)
Page:   1944 LEITCH, ANDREW (Statutory registers Deaths 459/2 3)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
7. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855)
Page:   1893 LEITCH, ANDREW, JULIET SANDERSON WILSON (Statutory registers Marriages 447/ 13)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
8. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855)
Page:   1898 LEITCH, ANDREW (Statutory registers Births 447/ 55)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
9. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855)
Page:   1900 LEITCH, ANNIE RATTRAY (Statutory registers Births 447/2 8)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
10. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855)
Page:   1901 LEITCH, JAMES WILSON (Statutory registers Births 447/2 57)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
11. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855)
Page:   1904 LEITCH, THOMAS RATTRAY (Statutory registers Births 447/2 14)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
12. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855)
Page:   1905 LEITCH, EBENIZER (Statutory registers Births 447/2 46)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
13. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855)
Page:   1907 LEITCH, JULIET WILSON (Statutory registers Births 447/2 43)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
14. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855)
Page:   1909 LEITCH, AGNES WILSON (Statutory registers Births 447/2 25)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
15. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855)
Page:   1920 LEITCH, JOHN WILSON (Statutory registers Deaths 685/5 383) Includes RCE 1920 LEITCH, JOHN WILSON (Statutory registers Corrected Entries 685/05 001 80) (RCE)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
16. Title:   Publication
Page:   Record for Andrew Leitch Wheels around Kirkcaldy and East Fife by Alan Brotchie. Campbell's Steamboat Tavern in 1904
17. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855)
Page:   1926 LEITCH, JULIET SANDERSON (Statutory registers Deaths 447/2 16)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
18. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855)
Page:   1929 LEITCH, ANDREW MARGARET CUNNINGHAM (Statutory registers Marriages 685/4 71) Irregular Marriage
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
19. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855)
Page:   1893 LEITCH, ANDREW, JULIET SANDERSON WILSON (Statutory registers Marriages 447/ 13)
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;
20. Title:   Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855)
Page:   1929 LEITCH, ANDREW MARGARET CUNNINGHAM (Statutory registers Marriages 685/4 71) Irregular Marriage
Publication:   Location: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk;

Notes
a. Note:   1. The East Dock Bar, High Street, Methil, may be the Dock Tavern where Andrew Leitch died.
 This Bar is still open, (2012) and is around 100 yards from the Steamboat Tavern, where Andrew was Publican in 1921.
  2. Andrews son, John, died 14 April 1920 with Meningitis. Andrew was required to complete a form sent to him by the British Army, where he had to declare the living relatives of the dead soldier, on 2 December 1921. Andrew replied on 17th December 1921. The form had been sent to allow the Army to release the Medals that John was entitled to, to his Father, him being the next of kin.(NOK)
  3. LEITCH, Andrew (Windygates)
 View details for: Reference No. 49773
 Title: LEITCH, Andrew (Windygates)
 Description:
 Birth notice of a daughter
  Date published: 25/01/1900
 Photo: No
 Pages: 2
 Stored at:
 Kirkcaldy Galleries - Library, Museum, Art Gallery & Visitor Centre
 Methil Library
 Source: Leven Advertiser
  4. A marriage by 'Warrant of Sheriff' is a non-religious marriage unique to Scotland. The couple would testify before witnesses (2 required) and often in front of a solicitor. The testament would then be ratified by the local Sheriff Substitute (who did all the work) and would then be accepted by a registrar.
  5. A very clear explaination of all sorts of Scottish marriages on this site:
  http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/scottishwayofbirthanddeath/marriage/
  Sheriffs warrant was a type of 'Irregular'Marriage as follows:
  But Scotland's fame for distinctive marriage practices stemmed from 'irregular' marriages. There were three ways of forming a legal marriage without banns or a minister being present.
  a. A couple were legally married if they declared themselves to be so in front of witnesses, regardless of whether this was followed by a sexual connection.
 b. A promise of marriage, followed by a sexual relationship, was regarded as a legal marriage - but this had to be backed up by some kind of proof, such as a written promise of marriage, or an oath sworn before witnesses.
 c. Marriages 'by habit and repute' were also legal if a couple usually presented themselves in public as husband and wife, even if no formal declaration of marriage was made.
  Irregular marriages were frowned on by law and the churches, and couples who admitted to them were fined, but they had the same inheritance rights as regularly married couples, and their children were legitimate. Although the Church of Scotland did not approve of irregular marriages, it tolerated them because it feared that if the law did not recognize such relationships, the couple would end up 'living in sin.' The system was believed to protect women from unscrupulous men who might seduce them with promises of marriage or fake wedding ceremonies. After registration was introduced, an irregular marriage could be registered if the couple presented themselves before a sheriff or magistrate, were 'convicted' as parties to an irregular marriage, and paid a fine. Some found marriage by sheriff's warrant a cheaper and quicker alternative than all the expense of banns and a regular marriage ceremony. Marriages established in court by a Decree of Declarator could also be registered, on production to the registrar of an extract of the Decree and payment of £1, but this was not common. In fact, irregular marriages were infrequent in Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century, and fewer than 100 per year took place between 1855 and 1870. After that, the numbers rose steadily, and then rapidly in the early twentieth century, until they accounted for over 12% of all Scottish marriages in 1914. They remained at this level until the Second World War. Contrary to the national myth, most took place not on the Scottish border, but in the larger towns. This may have been due to a decline in the influence of the churches, or to the relative cheapness of irregular marriages, but it also reflected the growing number of divorces. Since many churches would not remarry a divorced person, and there was no civil marriage in Scotland until 1939, couples in this position had no alternative but to marry by sheriff's warrant. From 1916, irregular marriages were no longer technically an offence, and in 1939 marriage by sheriff's warrant ended, to be replaced by a civil ceremony in the registrar's office.
 
b. Note:   John Leitch 14 Son Wemyss Coal Miner Drawer
 Andrew Leitch 13 Son Wemyss
 Annie Leitch 11 Daughter Wemyss
 James Leitch 9 Son Markinch
 Thomas Leitch 7 Son Markinch
 Ebenezer Leitch 5 Son Markinch
 Juliet Leitch 3 Daughter Markinch

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