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Who lived there? Crail Fife 1898
« on: Monday 29 July 13 14:56 BST (UK) »
Hi!
How would I go about finding who exactly was living in a house in Crail in Fife in 1898? I only have the address, no names.
Thank you!!
Susan
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Re: Who lived there?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 29 July 13 15:34 BST (UK) »
Try this link which has some free census records: http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

I find it quite useful as you can search from house to house, but not every area in Scotland has been transcribed yet so see how you go.
Gr-Gr-Gr Grandparents and relevant areas: MacDonald (Skye/Renfrewshire/Glasgow), Johnstone (Inverness/Ayr/Glasgow), MacPherson (Ross/Glasgow), Irvine (Ireland/Glasgow), Berrie (Dunkeld/Glasgow), Biggar (Paisley/Glasgow), Bradley (Ireland/Glasgow), McCorkindale (Argyll/Glasgow), Hardie (Ireland/Greenock), Scott (Greenock) , Kane (Ireland), Maguire (Ireland), McLarty (Argyll/Greenock), McLean (Argyll/Greenock), Petrie (Fife/Dundee/Greenock), Graham (Argyll/Greenock).

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Re: Who lived there?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 29 July 13 15:47 BST (UK) »
Thank you CailleanMac....I'll have a look
good luck in your research
Susan
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Re: Who lived there?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 29 July 13 23:51 BST (UK) »
Quote from: susan j on Monday 29 July 13 14:56 BST (UK)
How would I go about finding who exactly was living in a house in Crail in Fife in 1898? I only have the address, no names.

You would look in the Valuation Rolls. They were compiled and published annually, and they list the name of the occupier of each house. Some of these are now online at Scotland's People. If you check the 1901 census and the 1895 Valuation Roll and find the same name in both, you can probably infer that that is who lived there in 1898. If not, you will need to get someone to go to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, or some other repository where they can check the 1897/8 and 1898/9 VRs.
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.

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Re: Who lived there? Crail Fife 1898
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 30 July 13 05:33 BST (UK) »
Thank you
Brown Burns and Brush Dundee; Thomson and Brown Perth; Burnett Fraser Sim and Burns Aberdeenshire; Stewart and Haggart Perth and Dundee; Barclay perthshire; Brown and Proctor, Mass. USA; Robertson Selkirk, Jedburgh; Scott Selkirk and Roxburghshire; Gill India/Australia/England
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