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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
NEWARK CASTLE Newark Castle
Newark Castle
Newark Castle
Newark Castle Newark Castle
Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Fogo Ph. [Parish] Manse
George Fargan Inch
John Oliphant St. Monance
William Peattie Craigiewells
Hist [History] of Fife page 110 by J.M. Leighton
026 An Ancient Castle now partly in ruins on the farm of Newark. It is a large stone building six stories high with thick massive walls six to seven feet in thickness. A part of it still retains its roof though in a broken state but the greatest of it has fallen down and is one broken mass of ruins on the top of the first floor which strongly arched with stone overhead It was formerly a baronial residence and was the property of James Sandilands of [Curry] who died in 1585. when it came to Sir W. Sandilands who was raised to the Peerage by Charles 1. by the title of Lord Abercrombie. - General David Leslie afterwards Lord Newark - purchased the barony & castle in 1549, from his family it passed to the "Anstruthers" of Anstruther by whom it was sold in the present year to a Mr. Baird who is the present proprietor.- the date of its erection is unknown. It was visited by a party of Highlanders in 1745, and by them plundered and partially dismantled, from it [privately] the Garrison on the "Bass" rock was supplied with provisions, while holding out for the "Stewart" Dynasty.

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100 List of Names Collected by Thomas Smith C. Asst. [Civilian Assistant]

[Parish of] St. Monance. Plan 26B Trace 4

[signed] T. Smith CA [Civilian Assistant] 28th February 1853

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The Authority "Leightons History of Fife page 110" refers to Volume 3 which is not currently available online. [2014]

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