--- _id: cni00059230 data: actDates: - end: 1869 lang: eng start: 1849 text: 1849-1869 actNote: - intro: acti lang: eng text: 'booksellers, bookbinders, stationers, letterpress, lithographic and copperplate printers & engravers' extResource: - display: http://www.nls.uk/ note: - lang: eng text: Scottish Book Trade Index online (list) url: http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index external: - auth: NLS-SBTI country: UK date: 20080207 foundIn: - Schenck - Slater 1852 - Campbell Cupar generalNote: - lang: eng text: "Successors to G.S. Tullis of Tullis Press. When George Smith Orr died on 7 May 1848, he left a five-year-old son, Robert Tullis, as his heir. George's brother William took over the management of the firm for his nephew. He sold the firm and the copyright of the newspaper to James Whitehead and Walter Burns, but retained the ownership of the buildings. James Whitehead, who died in 1858, was the son of John Whitehead, a famer of Muthill in Perthshire. He may have benn the James Whitehead, bookseller in Kinross from at least September 1836 until October 1844, when he went bankrupt. In about 1845, he was manager of Tullis's bookshop in the Bonnygate, Cupar. Walter Burns, who was born 16 August 1824, was the son of the Rev, William Hamilton Burns of Kilsyth, and had been associated in running “The Fife Herald” since October 1846. He married Agnes Steen, daughter of Rev I Steen of the Royal Institution of Belfast on 30 October 1855. In April 1857, he decided to move to Ireland and settled in Newry. J.C. Orr bought the press from Whitehead and Burns in 1857 and went bankrupt in 1869." heading: - part: - entry: 'Whitehead [James] & Burns [Walter]' usedBy: - NLS-SBTI name: - note: - lang: eng text: '*at Burnside, **Cupar' part: - entry: '[James] Whitehead and [John Cunningham] Orr' start: 1857 tmp: sbti:confirm variant typeOfName: varn - end: 1869 note: - lang: eng text: '*at Burnside, **Cupar' part: - entry: J.C. Orr start: 1857 tmp: sbti:confirm variant typeOfName: varn place: - id: cnl00026617 part: - name: Cupar typeOfPlace: actv - id: cnl00026617 part: - name: Cupar - address: 6 Bonnygate typeOfPlace: actv - end: 1857 id: cnl00026617 note: - lang: eng text: Printing Works part: - name: Cupar - address: at Burnside start: 1849 typeOfPlace: actv typeOfEntry: 0 meta: history: - timestamp: 2014-03-14T12:00:00Z remark: - 'SBTI original entry: WHITEHEAD [James] & BURNS [Walter], sbti:squared heading Cupar' - 'Warning: the SBTI information was converted from unstructured format by automation. The assignment of data elements is to be regarded with caution.' status: n