Essential sources of study of Scottish life from the 18th and 19th centuries.

[juliejtp]

Stastical accounts of Scotland covering the 1790s'and 1830's, based largely on information supplied by each parish church minister. I just browsed the scanned pages for non subscribers.

http://www.edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/description.html

 

[benny1982]

Hi Julie

Very interesting. Mine came from the Selkirk area of Scotland. Many of them were servants. The names are Stewart, Gib and Dickson.

Ben

 

[juliejtp]

Hi Ben,

It does make interesting reading. I just had a look at Cromarty 1791-1799, there was smallpox there in 1792 and something else about 40 inhabitants going to the South Country (did this mean England) could have been some of my lot!. In all it gives a picture of what life was like then.

 

[benny1982]

Hi Julie

My ancestor was born in 1738 in Selkirk, Scotland. He moved to County Durham in England in about 1765. He was married twice. I descend from his second wife and their son William Stewart born in 1800 in Bishop Auckland, Durham.

It is the baptism entry that gives his parents places of origin and it says "Son of John Stewart a native of Selkirk, Scotland and Patience his wife a native of this parish".

I was over the moon as before, the Scottish connection was an assumtion based on his surname, the migration of Scots to England and his absence from Bishop Auckland parishes before about 1785.

I wonder if tenant disagreements in Scotland in the mid 1700s accountered for Scot migration to England and overseas.

It is also esitmated that about 250'000 Russians have distant Scottish ancestry from the 1500s and 1600s.

Ben