Pittenweem Harbour; East Neuk of Fife
It is at least fifteen years since I first came across a reference to a John Auchinleck and his wife Isobel Wood, believed to be a granddaughter of Admiral Wood of Largo.
It was contained in an 1867 publication, Annals of Pittenweem by David Cook, town clerk of the royal burgh. He had been investigating documents relating to the buildings of the ancient priory and quoted the following from a charter of 1588: ‘the common gait and house now pertaining to James Stevenson and close of the house sometime pertaining to Umqle John Auchinleck respective on the west’.