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Re: 60 Annfield Road, Dundee?
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 18 December 25 20:14 GMT (UK) »
I don't have an Ancestry subscription, but I think the 1881 census can be searched under street name there, so perhaps another Rootschat member might be able to help?
I don't have a subscription to Anc* either but I do have a set of the CD-ROM transcription of the 1881 census that was published many years ago by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons).

There were three households listed at 60 Annfield Road in 1881. The street is in the parish of Liff and Benvie, but much of the parish was then and is now actually in the city of Dundee, which had expanded well beyond the boundaries of the parish of Dundee. Many census transcriptions have an inconvenient tendency to omit the name of the town or city when it doesn't share the name of the parish.

The FindMyPast Verson of this census gives the address as '60, Annfield Road, Liff & Benvie, St Peter, Forfarshire (Angus), Scotland' which is not especially helpful if you're looking for Dundee, and the LDS one does the same, but omits St Peter.

Dwelling:   60 Annfield Road
   Census Place:   Liff & Benvie, Forfar, Scotland
   Source:   FHL Film 0203480     GRO Ref    Volume 282-1    EnumDist 27    Page 9
   Marr   Age   Sex   Birthplace
William WHITE   M   39    M   Muthel, Perth, Scotland
   Rel:   Head
   Occ:   Joiner
Eliza WHITE   M   39    F   Cromerty, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
   Rel:   Wife
John WHITE       6    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Son
   Occ:   Scholar
James WHITE       1    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Son
Margaret WHITE       8    F   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Dau
   Occ:   Scholar
Eliza WHITE       6    F   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Dau
Cathrine WHITE       4    F   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Dau

   Dwelling:   60 Annfield Road
   Census Place:   Liff & Benvie, Forfar, Scotland
   Source:   FHL Film 0203480     GRO Ref    Volume 282-1    EnumDist 27    Page 9
   Marr   Age   Sex   Birthplace
David FAIRWEATHER   M   41    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Head
   Occ:   Clerk (Gas Co)
Margaret FAIRWEATHER   M   42    F   Aberfeldy, Perth, Scotland
   Rel:   Wife
David A. FAIRWEATHER       12    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Son
   Occ:   Scholar
James FAIRWEATHER       1    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Son
Christina FAIRWEATHER       13    F   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Dau   Handicap: Blind
   Occ:   Scholar
Margaret FAIRWEATHER       3    F   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Dau
Agnes WILL   W   63    F   Lethnut, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Mother
   Occ:   Annuitant

   Dwelling:   60 Annfield Road
   Census Place:   Liff & Benvie, Forfar, Scotland
   Source:   FHL Film 0203480     GRO Ref    Volume 282-1    EnumDist 27    Page 9
   Marr   Age   Sex   Birthplace
George MC MILLAN   M   28    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Head
   Occ:   Mason
Margaret MC MILLAN   M   27    F   New Deer, Aberdeen, Scotland
   Rel:   Wife
Robert MC MILLAN       5    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Son
William MC MILLAN       3    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Son
John MC MILLAN       2    M   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Son
Mary MC MILLAN       6    F   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Dau
Jemima MC MILLAN       4 m   F   Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
   Rel:   Dau

It was actually quite interesting to see the distribution of house types in the street. On the odd-numbered side, there were 15 addresses occupied by a single households, and 12 occupied by from two to 16 households. No 43 and Nos 51 to 71 were not listed at all. On the even-numbered side, there were 12 addresses occupied by single households and 8 by three up to eight households. Nos 4 to 10, 18, 28 to 38, 50 and 62 to 84 were not listed at all.
   
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.