Let me suggest to everyone who is planning a trip to Scotland that they buy ahead of time some maps of the area. Specifically I find the Ordnance Survey Landranger series and theOrdnance Survey Pathfinder series to be excellent as they have a multitude of historic places marked that the regular road maps do not and cannot. The Landranger series covers a much larger area than the Pathfinder series do. Both are excellent and when used in conjunction with each other will make planning a vacation trip to Scotland much more enjoyable. I wish that I had had them when we were there 10 years ago. Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "jody allen" <fraochale@gmail.com> To: "Iain Hutchison" <iain@keapub.fsnet.co.uk> Cc: "D&G Mailing List" <dumfries-galloway@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 5:45 AM Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] !851 Church Census > Yes this is what I was looking for and because it was statistical (not > typical of regular 1851 census) it is more helpful for local/social > historians than say a family genealogist because if I remember they may > only > list who the ministers were, it was more of report on what the religious > climate was for a given parish and what the attendance was like as well as > report on other denominations in a parish, which is helpful for family > research if you haven't found your family in the traditional OPR or on > census. > I was looking for this because of the statistics rather than names. I will > keep searching to see if I can find an online index or source. > Unfortunately > I am across the pond in the US and don't have access to a library with > this > source. But thank you for posting it so I can add to my list of things to > look up on my next trip to Scotland. > > Jody > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Iain Hutchison > <iain@keapub.fsnet.co.uk>wrote: > >> I can't claim to know much about the 1851 census, but I believe it came >> under the auspices of the government decennial census, and it was an >> exercise that was not attempted again until 2001. >> >> For each decennial census, reports were published. These are sizeable >> tomes >> and contain some narrative, but lots of statistical tables on the >> different >> areas of census enquiry. On this basis, I would expect to local data >> covered in the 1851 Census Report, split down into county and perhaps >> also >> parish. Indeed it seems that a specific volume was published in >> connection >> with the relgious survey and one is held in Glasgow University Library: >> >> http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/search~S6/?searchtype=Z&searcharg=1851+census+report+scotland&searchscope=6&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=Z1851+census%26SORT%3DD >> >> There should also be copies in the National Library in Edinburgh and >> other >> large reference libraries. >> >> Iain >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Neil Beattie" <neil@clueful.co.uk> >> To: "D&G Mailing List" <dumfries-galloway@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 1:05 PM >> Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] !851 Church Census >> >> >> > >> > Hi Jody >> > This church census is new to me but may be very useful. I'm aware of >> > the national census which took place in 1851 but not one udertaken by >> > the church. Was there a special one for Kircudbright burgh itself? >> > Neil >> >> I'm looking for an on line access to the Church census that was done >> >> in >> >> 1851 >> >> by Parish ministers. Does anyone know if there is an online source for >> >> the >> >> burgh of Kirkdcudbright. I need the information for a class paper. >> >> Jody >> >> >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1806 - Release Date: >> 22/11/2551 >> 18:59 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Jody Allen, > Scottish Scribbles Blog > http://scottishscribbles.blogspot.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Researching: > Scotland: Wallace, Mctaggart, Clarke, Mckean(d), McCartney, Stewart > Ireland: Lynch, Drought > Wales: Williams, Walsh > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message