Gavin, Thanks for the reply. It is greatly appreciated. Cheers Roslyn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gavin Bell" <g.bell@which.net> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Re James 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 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >