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  • Scotland’s 1885 Valuation Rolls go digital

    From the WDYTYA Magazine website:

    Thousands of Victorian property records have been made available to explore on the web.

    Added to http://scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ yesterday (11 February), the 1885 Valuation Rolls provide a record of every property in Scotland that was assessed as having a rateable value, including details of owners, occupiers and tenants.

    Searchable by name and address, the scanned pages feature details of more than 1.4 million people across all social classes.

    As well as famous figures such as ‘Britain’s worst poet’ William Topaz McGonagall, the records also contain names of crofters who were embroiled in the famous ‘Battle of the Braes’ on the Isle of Skye in 1883.

    Elsewhere in the dataset are the names of working class tenants who had recently moved into Edinburgh’s Well Court estate, which was set up by The Scotsman proprietor John Ritchie Findlay.
    However, his more famous project of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery was still under construction at the time, and is shown to have been valued at just £40.

    Annelies van den Belt, CEO of DC Thomson Family History, which runs ScotlandsPeople on behalf of National Records of Scotland, said she was “extremely pleased” the records are now online.

    “We’ve now released five sets of Valuation Rolls, covering the years 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915 and 1920,” she said.

    “With this new release we’ve again chosen a mid-point between censuses, as we believe this will help family historians to find out more about those ancestors who moved address or changed jobs between census years.”

    Carol

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    You can browse the Valuation Rolls for free until 6th January, You will need your credits to view the images.

    For the 12 days of Christmas, the Valuation Rolls are completely FREE to search!
    From now until 6th January 2015, you can browse the index searches for Valuation Rolls 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, 1920 and the newly-released 1925 free of charge.


    What will you discover?
    The Valuation Rolls, which are fully searchable by address, are an excellent companion to the census and are a useful aid to locating where and how your ancestors lived. Find out more about searching the Valuation Rolls.Christmas babes
    As it’s Christmas day, we thought we’d highlight some entries we’ve recently discovered. Clara Christmas Scott was born on December 25th, 1892. With such a special birth date, we can see why she was given such a festive forename! View Clara’s Christmas birth entry.

    Festive Wishes from ScotlandsPeople
    We'd like to wish all of our customers a very Merry Christmas, and a happy and prosperous New Year to come.

    All the best,
    The ScotlandsPeople team
    www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
    Caroline
    Caroline's Family History Pages
    Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

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      My landowning ancestor died in 1882!
      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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