CERL Thesaurus

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_id: cni00059230
_rights:
  delete: 0
  edit: 0
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'
  extDataset: []
  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
  location:
    point: {}
  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