Dumfriesshire Valuation rolls (1896-97)
Valuation rolls were collected annually from 1854 to 1988. For each property they record the name and designation of the proprietor, the tenant, the occupier and the annual rateable value. They do not list any other residents in a property.
I hope you find the valuation roll for Dumfriesshire (1896-97) that we a putting on-line helpful. For ease of access we are uploading them as PDF files but as they are quite large files customers without broadband may struggle to view the images. If this is the case please contact me for other possibilities.
Please note this is the landward part of Annan parish, the town section is in a separate volume. Annan part twoAnnan Letter
Letter sent from Mr. Little of Annan to a Carlisle Solicitor in April 1837. It is regarding Salmon Fishing in the River Annan.
Chambers' Historical NewspaperChambers’ Historical Newspaper, Conducted by William and Robert Chambers, editors of “Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal”. These are very interesting newspapers with a lot of source information useful in conducting genealogy in Scotland. Particularly helpful is the Birth, marriages and Death notices in each newspaper.
We have not indexed this newspaper however we are giving you a summery of its contents to aid your research.
Summery of Issue No.1:
Preliminary Explanations
Foreign Politics
Home Politics
The Currency question
Church Establishments
Foreign news – France, Holland & Belgium, Portugal, Turkey, Jamaica.
England – The Revenue, Proposed Railroad from London to Dover, Cholera, Annual cost of a private soldier, Madame Letitia Bonaparte’s Will, Preservation of dead bodies.
Ireland
Scotland – Sir Walter Scott, Preferments, Crimes, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Scottish Bankrupts, Cholera in Edinburgh, Dumfries, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness
Summery of Issue No.2:
History of the British parties (political)
A world for the working classes
The Funds: The funds, as they are called are pledges or promises of the nation to pay the debts, which it has from time to time contracted.
Foreign news: Holland & Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Church dissent in France.
England: Movements against the Dutch war, the election, falling of houses and Sunday trading.
Ireland
Scotland: The death of Sir John Leslie, Sir Walter Scott, County of Selkirk – suitable mark of respect to the memory of Sir Walter Scott, Desecration of the Sabbath, Popular Education, Cholera, Preferment’s, Trade and Manufactures, fairs and markets, crimes, birth, marriages, deaths and Scottish Bankrupts.