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Title: Link: 1843 Trade Directory
Post by: apanderson on Monday 28 November 11 11:03 GMT (UK)

1843 - "Directory to gentleman's seats, villages etc., in Scotland" (Giving the counties in which they are situated - the post-towns to which they are attached and the name of the resident)

http://www.archive.org/stream/directorytogentl00find/directorytogentl00find_djvu.txt (http://www.archive.org/stream/directorytogentl00find/directorytogentl00find_djvu.txt)

Choose either 'Read online' or 'PDF'.

Fantastic resource!!   ;D

Anne

Title: Re: 1843 Directory
Post by: Billyblue on Tuesday 29 November 11 05:03 GMT (UK)

And if that's not the right year, that site has over 700 Scottish directories available, up to 1912.

Not all counties represented, but lots for Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Renfrewshire, Angus/Forfar, Aberdeenshire, also Perthshire, Ayrshire and even a few for Stirlingshire.

Dawn M

Title: Re: 1843 Directory
Post by: apanderson on Tuesday 29 November 11 10:27 GMT (UK)

Thanks for that Dawn!

I believe these are all accessible through the National Library of Scotland, if, of course, you happen have a membership. (Which I do but was unaware of their existance).

Anne

Title: Re: 1843 Directory
Post by: Billyblue on Tuesday 29 November 11 14:36 GMT (UK)

No, you do not need to have a membership for NLS.

Archive.org has digitised them all for NLS, and NLS has made them all free online to look at, or download as .pdf files, via www.archive.org .  They are, of course, none of them under copyright.

Believe me - I'm overseeing cataloguing them all for our FHS library!

Dawn M