Scottish records - am I missing something?

[Dave106]

Hi Boo:
I tried your suggestion and no results found.
William Anderson - death, with several variations for the key word.
I only see 4 pages for Falkirk Herald dated 1845. I read pages 3-4 and then was advised my credits ran out. Based on the first reply above, of no information found, I am not buying credits at this time.
Anyway, thanks for trying to help me out.
Dave

[Tickettyboo]

Hi Boo:
I tried your suggestion and no results found.
William Anderson - death, with several variations for the key word.
I only see 4 pages for Falkirk Herald dated 1845. I read pages 3-4 and then was advised my credits ran out. Based on the first reply above, of no information found, I am not buying credits at this time.
Anyway, thanks for trying to help me out.
Dave

Sorry it didn't help. If you have an LDS Famiy History Centre in your area, they usually have access to Find My Past on their pcs (or your local library may have access)  FindMyPast have the same newspapers as the BNA. Or you could sign up for a free trial for FindMyPast and look from home (just remember to cancel before the end of the trial or it will auto renew)
Other than that the only other avenue I can find is this on the NLS site which says Falkirk Libraries has an INDEX of newspaper articles from the Falkirk Herald (not the actual newspaper images but it may at least tell you IF  there was an article for the name you are looking for)
https://digital.nls.uk/catalogues/newspaper-indexes/title/?id=17

and the Falkirk Libraries site has an email link at the bottom of this page
https://falkirk.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/HOME

or, a post in here headed Falkirk Library Look Up Request  may result in someone local to the area looking for you.

As I said it would depend on the type of article you are looking for, I have no experience of this area but if you are looking for a straightforward notice of death its possible that if there are any they may be just for the well known/well off and not for everyday folk - but would love to be proved wrong about that :-)

Boo

[purplekat]

You can get free online access to Scottish Newspapers if you live in Scotland by joining the National Library of Scotland's, (NLS), online service.

[Dave106]

Thanks for your help.
I will make this a task for next winter.
Dave

[Rena]

Hi:
My comment is not directly related to this discussion.
The initial post refers to a newspaper article dated in the 1800's.
I want to find out if there were newspapers for Doune or Kilmadock dating to 1846.
How do I find this out and if there are newspapers, where can I find them on-line?
Thanks,
Dave

Sometimes articles in newspapers refer to areas outside the distribution area of a newspaper.

For instance my gt. aunt "Tish" in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland paid to have an insert in her local newspaper which referred to the death of her relative in Yorkshire, England.

In those early newspapers they usually carried the arrival and departure dates of sailing ships in every British port and where it had sailed from and where it's next port of call would be, which also included the name of the ships captain.

Additionally newspapers had a section of "Intelligence Reports" that related to tidbits of news from further afield :  .... "It has come to our notice that ......"

It's many years since I did any online newspaper research, but everything I found was free by using a free membership number that I got by visiting my local library and stating I needed some form of registration number for doing my research from home and not in the library. 

The "Glasgow Herald" and "The Scotsman" which was published in Edinburgh are the main titles.  Local family history groups could give information about their local newspapers that do not show on any genealogy platform.   It was in one of these "unknown local" newspapers that I found a couple of lengthy articles and a long letter "Dear Editor",  about my grandfather's uncle who had been an upstanding member of the community, which also included a sketch of the man (wow!)

"The Scotsman" newspaper was first published on January 25, 1817. It was founded by solicitor William Ritchie and customs officer Charles Maclaren. At that time, the newspaper was one of many published in Edinburgh's High Street, then known as Scotland's Fleet Street.

P.S.  The name of the earliest Scottish newspaper is generally considered to be "Mercurius Caledonius". It was published in 1660 and 1661. This newspaper predates the well-known "Caledonian Mercury" which was published from 1720 to 1867.

[AlanBoyd]

Thanks Rena:
I have been on the newspaper records site before.
I will take another look later, but today I only see 4 pages for Falkirk Herald, dated 1845.
I read 2 pages with my free access. Nothing pertaining to my research.
I appreciate your assistance.
Dave

See below for information from BNA. It seems that in 1846 the Falkirk Herald was a monthly publication. From what I can see they have 11 editions of the paper from 1846 with an apparent gap for March, but perhaps it didn’t appear in that month for some reason. Each edition seems to have four pages.

Happy to do a search for you if you are prepared to say what you are looking for.

The Falkirk Herald first saw publication in 1845 as The Falkirk Herald and Stirlingshire Monthly Advertiser. It was established by Glasgow-based lawyer Alexander Hedderwick. In 1846, the Herald was published in Falkirk after being bought by Archibald Johnston, making it the first newspaper acquired by the Johnston family who went on to become major publishers Johnston Press. The Falkirk Herald became a weekly publication in 1851 as a broadsheet newspaper.

[Dave106]

Hi Alan: also others already contributing to me on this site.

I would definitely appreciate your assistance.

I am seraching for my great great grandfather William Anderson, born about 1812-1813 and died about 1846, both dates presumably in Perthshire.
I have been trying to find information for him for many years and the 1841 census record is the only document that has some information about him, and some of this information is in question.

My great grandfather William Stewart Anderson (the "Stewart" name may nave been added in Canada) was born 24 March 1846 in Doune, Perthshire. His birth record states his father is deceased. Therefore, his father must have died between September 1845 and March 1846. This is based on my opinion from what I see in the records.

There are no records on ScotlandsPeople that indicate his death. Having said this, I have not searched on ScotlandsPeople for about a year. Maybe records are still being entered on ScotlandsPeople site. It is not that long ago that I found my great great grandmothers death record after looking for many years for it.

Also I have not found a cemetery record that fits. Through this site I have had a person search cemeteries in and near Doune, and through a person on this site I have obtained cemetery records. So it is obvious my searches to date are not producing answers.

It is a remote possibility that a record of William's death may have been included in a newspaper.
As said previously, a general search for William Anderson in the Falkirk Herald did not produce any results, even close. William was a grocer and there are a few grocers noted but not my ancestor.

You can see my recent response to a posting under "William Anderson and Janet Stewart", just a few postings below this one we are on. I am fairly certain the author "doun" has passed away. He has a few more postings that have gone unanswered. I may even know his real name.

I repeat, I would definitely appreciate any help.
I also appreciate that everyone is busy so I do not expect anyone to spend too much time helping me. But I do look forward to your assistance and, if needed, I will provide addition information.

All the best, Dave