Carnbee is a small, rural parish in the inland part of the East Neuk of Fife. It lies to the north of Anstruther and Pittenweem. There is no actual village and the church (dating from 1793) stands amid gently rolling agricultural land. The parish includes Kellie Castle, formerly the seat of the Earls of Kellie. Fife (Fìobh in Gaelic) is a unitary council region of Scotland situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. ... 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Carnbee originally belonged to the Abbey of Dunfermline, and, when it was formed into a temporal lordship, the patronage went along with the teinds and other church property.
The name of Melville, Laird of Carnbee, appears in public documents as early as 1466.,-the property having been acquired by that family in the reign of Robert the Bruce, and remaining in it till it was sold by Sir James Melville in 1598.
Carnbee Place (as the old mansion-house was called, and which was only taken down in 1813), was long the residence of the family of Lord Dunkeld, whose names are often mentioned in the parish records.
Pieter, Baron Melvill van Carnbee (1816-1856), Dutch geographer, was born at The Hague on May 20, 1816.
He traced his descent from an old Scottish family, originally, it is said, of Hungarian extraction.
Destined for the navy, in which his grandfather Pieter Melvill van Carnbee (1743-1810) had been admiral, be imbibed a taste for hydrography and cartography as a student in the college of Medemblik, and he showed his capacity as a surveyor on his first voyage to the Dutch Indies (modern Indonesia, 1835).
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