> Anne: You refer to these "valuation rolls." Could you > elaborate as to what they are/were, and where I might find > them today? (ie what jurisdiction in Forfar, Angus, Dundee > or ....? might have these "valuation rolls"? that I might > contact for more info?) They were compiled by the burgh (town) councils for their burghs, and by the county councils for the parts of their counties not covered by the burghs. The National Archives of Scotland has a research guide to VRs at http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/valuationRolls.asp There are also copies of Angus VRs in Angus Archives at Restenneth near Forfar, and in both the City and University Archives in Dundee. I do not know how complete or otherwise these holdings are for the middle of the 19th century. > My John Powre, salmon fisher, would have been involved in > salmon fishing in the 1830-1860s. (Although in 1841, 1851 > Census was always a weaver, High Street, Errol, Perth, Angus. Well, salmon fishing is a seasonal occupation, linked to the migration of the fish, so a salmon fisher would have needed some other job to keep him during the winter. Some might have gone for other forms of fishing, but there's not a lot of scope for catching herring, haddock, cod or mackerel in the Tay near Errol! So it would make sense to supplement his income by weaving outside the fishing season. Anne