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
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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