1901
At Anstruther Burgh Court Monday, Thos. Murray, jun., fisherman. Shore Street, Cellardyke, was fined 15s, or 14 days, for breach of the peace committed in Shore Street on Saturday evening.
1905
A property in Tolbooth Wynd, Cellardyke, consisting of house, shop, and eight stalled stable, has been purchased by Mr George Kirkcaldy, butcher, for £713.
An Anstruther memorial.-there has just been erected in Shore Street, Anstruther on a site at the foot of the West Pier, fronting the harbour, a granite fountain to the memory of Mr S. Williamson, some time M.P. for the St Andrews Burghs, who was born at Cellardyke in 1827, and died at Copley, Cheshire, in 1903. The fountain has been put up by Archibald Williamson, Liverpool, as a memorial to his father.
1906
Crew Landed at Aberdeen
The steamer St Ninian, belonging to the North of Scotland Steam Navigation Company arrived in Aberdour last Friday with five members of the crew of fishing boat Puritan, of St Monance, which was wrecked on a reef of rocks off Green Holm, near Lerwick, during the severe storm about ten days ago. Those who were landed were James Wood skipper and owner the boat, St Monance; David Wood, 16 years, his son; Wm. Davidson, St Monance ; Thomas Swankey, Arbroath ; Patrick Rath, native of Ireland. Two of the members of the crew—Thomas Guthrie, St Monance who was badly injured; and Robert Smith, Arbroath left Lerwick for their respective homes several days ago. The crew of the Puritan had an exciting experience, and were in an exhausted condition when rescued by the steam drifter Vanguard 111., of Cellardyke (Mr Martin Gardener, skipper). The unfortunate men were taken to the Sailors’ Home on their arrival Aberdeen, and were provided with railway tickets to enable them to proceed to their homes.
1911
The cry in this district, like several other places in Scotland ‘this exceptionally dry season, is “More water.” In Pittenweem and the Anstruthers, where they have a joint supply, it has been agreed to get the old bore opened and pumping operations commenced. In Cellardyke they have had to resort opening several old wells which used to supply the community, but which have been closed since the present water supply was introduced. It is to be hoped that the present experience will the means the local authorities, once and for all, seriously facing the question of having an adequate supply, either jointly or severally, of good water, although there may be the usual grumbling by the discontented taxpayer.
1913
Mr Robert Ray, B.Sc. (St Andrews), son of the Rev. Mr Ray, the Manse, Cellardyke, who for the past year has been working on the Scientific Staff of the English Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, has just been appointed to the post of lecturer in Zoology in the University of South Africa, Cape Town. Besides taking high places other subjects, Mr Ray was doable medallist in the honour’s class in Zoology in St Andrews University. Recently he was awarded scholarship of £100 by the Carnegie Trustees to assist him the promotion of his research work in Liverpool. Mr Ray leaves for Cape Town about the middle of August to take up his new duties in the University there.
1914
The Journeys of Crabs
The Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats , Northumberland , has achieved a great many interesting results in its constant investigations of marine life , carried out under the able guidance of Professor Meek . The report of his work for the year ending June 30, 1913 , contains a most interesting account of an experiment in the migration of crabs , carried out over a period of three years 1902-1905 . About 800 crabs were marked and liberated, and after a lapse of two years a fairly accurate estimate of their movements was obtained, showing that the females moved far afield, invariably northwards ; while the males showed little tendency to move far in any direction , …… . The longest journey was performed by a female crab, which was captured in the Moray Firth, about 150 miles from home; two others were found near Stonehaven and Cellardyke respectively , and a number at St Abb’s . A mile a day was the maximum rate of progression, the average being about half a mile.