Fifeshire and Bells

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Scotland
Surnames/tags: Bell Beall Fifeshire

Places associated with Bells and Bealls who immigrated to North America

Contents 1 People 2 Places 2.1 Fife 2.2 Largo 2.3 St. Andrews 3 Sources

People

Places

Fife

Fife is a historic county of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. In some old documents it was known by the anglicized form of Fifeshire.

• Fife is a maritime county in the east of Scotland, bounded on the north by the river Tay, on the east by the German Ocean, on the south by the Firth of Forth, and on the west by the counties of Perth, Kinross, and Clackmannan. It is about 48 miles in length and 18 in extreme breadth, comprising an area of 504 square miles or 322,560 acres. It was anciently part of the extensive district of Ross, but after the union of the kingdoms of the Scots and the Picts in about the year 971, it was granted by Kenneth II to Macduff for his services in subjugating the Picts, and he was appointed hereditary thane of the lands he had helped conquer [for this reason, the county is still referred to as the Kingdom of Fife]. The county consists of 61 parishes and four civil districts of Cupar, Kirkcaldy, St. Andrew's and Dunfermline. Sheriff's courts are held at Cupar (the county town) for the first three and at Dunfermline for the last. Besides Cupar, the county contains fourteen royal burghs, nine other populous towns, and numerous smaller towns and villages. Many of the towns are seaports. The principal port is Kirkcaldy. The population in 1851 was 140,140. ^[1]

Largo

Largo -- Upper and Lower -- are seatowns on the north side of the Firth of Forth.

See: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Largo,_Fife,_Scotland

The distance from Largo to St. Andrews is about 12 miles.

St. Andrews

St. Andrews is an historic town located on the northeast coast of Fife. It is well known for the University of St Andrews, one of the most ancient universities in the world and is renowned as the home of golf. It is a former Parish on the East Coast of Fife. It is 10 miles southeast of Dundee and 30 miles northeast of Edinburgh.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: Samuel Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, 2nd ed., 1851. Family Hisotry Library book 941 E5L.