Where I live I can still see concreted over spaces where a window might have been. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Dash" <[email protected]> > The 1861 Census recorded, for the first time, the number of windowed > rooms (i.e. rooms with one or more windows) in each dwelling. Why > this information was recorded is unclear because the Window Tax ended > in Scotland more than 60 years before in 1798 (this from > ScotandsPeople). However the data do give us an idea of the typical > Tiree dwelling in 1861, which had 2 or 3 windowed rooms (79% of all > dwellings) and accommodated 5-6 people. Dwellings with none, no > recorded windows, or just one windowed room accounted for a further > 16% of dwellings, and 5% had 4 or more windowed rooms. > > The illustrations of a Tiree thatched dwelling in "The Land Below the > Waves: Tiree Past and Present", by Donneil Kennedy, and the excellent > pamphlet of the Sandaig Museum by the Hebridean Trust, show a house > with 3 windowed rooms typical of the 1850s and 1860s. > > > ___________________________________________ > Keith Dash > Sydney, Australia > Isle of Tiree Genealogy: www.tireegenealogy.com > Isle of Coll Genealogy: www.collgenealogy.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message