As per the Tailor record, you can contact the D/G Council Archives<http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2300>now to see if they have a listing of tailors in any of their archival records. If you contact the Stewartry Museum<http://www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk/stewmuse.html>they may have in their archives a listing of Tailors for that era in their archives. BTW If you send me the name I am currently working on a project for a class and i have some records such as voting records for Kirkcudbright of that time period if i had the name I could see if he was a voter. The D/G Family History Society <http://www.dgfhs.org.uk/> is really small but I would contact them on line to find out if you need to make reservations. As to death records you probably will find it difficult to find them as they weren't required to register deaths until 1855 but you may find them. Have you tried looking on Scotland people<http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/>site in the OPRS that they have, you may have good luck because it was closer to the registration time (1855) I also have a number of grave inscription books for the D/G area if you send me the names I can look it up for you to see in the books I have. I would think you could do a lot of this before you get there. And you might want to spend some time in Edinburgh at the National Archives<http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/>because they now have such things such as the Kirk Session records on computes and you can read them on there. USing the archives is very easy and if you go to the NAS site before you co and get the items numbers of records you want, you can call them or contact them and have them ready for when you get there. I did this and it made my research time way more effective. Jody On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Irene Coutts <irenecoutts@hotmail.com>wrote: > > I hope to visit Dumfries next May and am trying to organise my research. > I would like to know if I need to make any bookings for film or fisch > readers > and also where I need to look for these records. I am interested in trying > to > find out the following: > > When and where my ggg-grandmother died (probably between 1841-1851) as > she is listed on the 1841 Census in Trohoughton (hope I have spelt it > correctly). > The 1851 Census shows her husband as a "widower" in England. I haven't > found > her in the English Death records. She was born in Kirkcudbrightshire in > 1786. > > Where she was buried. > > If possible where Nith Lodge was back in the 1890's > > Burial records for another member of the family who died in 1906 in > Dumfries. > > Any obituary notices in the Dumfries newspapers. > > Any information on tailors in the Cargensbridge area of Kircudbrightshire > between > 1841 and 1848, > > Thank you for any suggestions,Irene > _________________________________________________________________ > It's simple! Sell your car for just $40 at CarPoint.com.au > > http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fai%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT > > ------------------------------- > 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