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I have free access from my home computer via my local lending library.
I've also found adverts, plus bmd's and was surprised to find the death of an ordinary blacksmith was announced in the 1850s. I've found mention of landlords of taverns - even found one such landlord was targetted by thieves in the late 1700s when they tried to steal the bed curtains. As transport was mainly by ship most newspapers gave information about arrivals/departures and names of captains which I found useful.
Prior to being a member I could see from bmds that family members moved about. Now that I have access to online newspapers I've discovered most reasons for the moves, e.g. one man followed his employer when he sold his tannery/leather works in Thornhil, Perthshire in 1794 (per newspaper adverts) and transferred the business to Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke