Hi, Could someone please advise me if there is an Aberdeen city directory available for the time frame of 1850-1855? I am looking for a James Garden in Short Loanings. I know that a James Garden married to a Grace Corbett died in 1853. I am looking for his father who was born about 1782/83 to see when he is not at this address. Hoping someone is able to help please. Cheers Roslyn Garden.

Greg Garden wrote: > > Could someone please advise me if there is an Aberdeen city > directory available for the time frame of 1850-1855? > > I am looking for a James Garden in Short Loanings. I know that a > James Garden married to a Grace Corbett died in 1853. I am looking > for his father who was born about 1782/83 to see when he is not at > this address. There is a continuous run of Dircetories for Aberdeen starting in the 1820s (Aberdeen Public Library has a set). But absence from the Directory would not necessarily mean that James was not living there - you had to pay for inclusion in the Directory, so while shopkeepers and other people in business might find inclusion to be a useful advertisement, and grand folk in the West End might feel they owed it to their status to be listed, a great many people were simply never included. And in any case, there is only ever one name listed per household, not a list of everyone there. Gavin Bell