Genealogy Ebooks Under each County the several Parishes, Towns and principal Villages have been arranged in strict Alphabetical order, with a view to facility of reference, and the names of the Magistrates, the Members of the County Councils, the County Officers, &c, have been given. The Cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, with a Street Directory in each case, are given separately. In addition to the ordinary lists of the private residents and trading classes, there is also one of the " Principal Seats," with references to the pages on which these are…]]> The name "Dundee" is made up of two parts: the common Celtic place-name element dun, meaning fort; and a second part that may derive from a Celtic element, cognate with the Gaelic dè, meaning 'fire'. Dundee, and Scotland more generally, saw rapid population increase at end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, with the city's population increasing from 12,400 in 1751 to 30,500 in 1821. The phasing out of the linen export bounty between 1825 and 1832 stimulated demand for cheaper textiles, particularly for cheaper,…]]> In presenting the " Dundee Post Office Directory" to their Subscribers and the Public, the Publishers have to apologize for the length of time that has passed between the announcement and the appearance of that Work; but a number of unforeseen circumstances, inseparable from the preparation of a new Work, coupled with an anxious desire to be as correct as possible, in connexion with deference to the opinion of many friends as to the time of publication, will, it is hoped, be accepted as an excuse for the delay. That the " Directory"…]]> The 19th century was a time of considerable expansion in Aberdeen. The increasing economic importance of Aberdeen and the development of the shipbuilding and fishing industries brought a need for improved harbour facilities. During this century much of the harbour as it exists today was built including Victoria Dock, the South Breakwater and the extension to the North Pier. Such an expensive building programme had repercussions, and in 1817 the city was in a state of bankruptcy. However, a recovery was made in the general prosperity which followed…]]> FIFESHIRE is an extensive and populous maritime county in the east of Scotland; it is a peninsula, having the Firth of Forth on the south, the German Ocean on the east, and the Firth of Tay on the north, which river separates it from Forfarshire and Perthshire. Its western border is very irregular ; commencing at Newburgh, on the Tay, it follows that of Perthshire south to near Auchtermuchty, turning west as far as Damhead, whence it extends with Kinross south to the Leven and west nearly as far as Humbling Brig, when the Perthshire border again…]]> Forfar is a royal burgh, parish, seat of a presbytery and head of a poor law combination, a small debt court district and a registration district; it is 57 miles north from Edinburgh, 15 northwest from Arbroath, 15 north-by-east from Dundee and 11 southwest from Brechin, and has a station on the Caledonian railway, whose lines from Newtyle, Brechin, Broughty Ferry and Arbroath (this latter a joint line witn the North British) meet here, and there are two other stations in the parish, Kingsmuir and Clocksbriggs.The town is supplied with gas from…]]> Lanarkshire or as it is sometimes designated Clydesdale, is a large, populous, and highly important manufacturing district, in the western part of the Lowlands or south division of Scotland; bounded by Dumfriesshire on the south, the counties of Ayr and Renfrew on the west, those of Dumbarton and Stirling on the north, Linlithgowshire and Edinburghshire on the south-east, and Peebles on the east. Its extreme length (from south-south-east to north north-west) is somewhat more than fifty miles, and its greatest breadth in the middle (from east to…]]> Glasgow the ' Metropolis of the West,' as it is commonly designated in Scotland, is in the county of Lanark, situate on the banks of the Clyde; 397 miles from London, 44 from Edinburgh, 137 from Aberdeen, 34 from Ayr, 29 from Stirling, 213 from Manchester, the like distance from Liverpool, 95 from Carlisle, 196 from Dublin, and 127 from Belfast. Glasgow is divided by the river Clyde into two unequal parts, that portion occupying the northern bank being the chief: this comprehends the old and new towns, with the suburbs of Calton, Bridgeton,…]]> In preparing the present volume, the Publisher's aim has been to attain the greatest accuracy and extent of useful local information, of which such a Work is capable. To that end, the Town of Dundee and its neighbourhood, as well as the villages of Broughty Ferry and Lochee, have been carefully surveyed by competent persons ; and a correct Eoll of all the principal inhabitants, with their occupations and places of business and residence, has been obtained, and afterwards compared with the Police Lists.]]> When the Publishers of this Directory first proposed it to the Public they were not properly aware of the great difficulty in procuring the necessary Lists. They only regret the trouble they have had in collecting the materials of the following pages so far as it has too long retarded the publication beyond the period originally fixed for its appearance. The Lists however, which they have collected, will, they trust, be found highly useful and necessary: they are not inserted in the regular manner at first intended, as the publishers were either…]]> This important and extensive county is situated in the north-east part of Scotland, and is bounded on the north and east by the North Sea; on the south by the counties of Kincardine, Forfar, and Perth; and on the west by Inverness-shire and Banffshire. In form it approaches to that of an oval, the length of which, from north-east to south-west, is about eighty five miles, and its extreme breadth about forty. It is estimated to comprise 1,970 square miles, or 1,260,625 acres. There is a characteristic difference to be observed in the inhabitants…]]> The origin of Edinburgh, as of many other towns of high antiquity, is shrouded in great obscurity ; there can be little doubt, however, that the town grew up around the lofty castle rock, a fortress almost impregnable before the introduction of gun powder, find which rises abruptly with precipitous sides on the north, west, and south, sloping eastward iuto a ridge, steep both on its northern and southern sides. It was on this ridge that the town first began to be built. The most ancient name on record applied to the rock fortress is Casteth Mynyd…]]> Glasgow the ' Metropolis of the West,' as it is commonly designated in Scotland, is in the county of Lanark, situate on the banks of the Clyde; 397 miles from London, 44 from Edinburgh, 137 from Aberdeen, 34 from Ayr, 29 from Stirling, 213 from Manchester, the like distance from Liverpool, 95 from Carlisle, 196 from Dublin, and 127 from Belfast. Glasgow is divided by the river Clyde into two unequal parts, that portion occupying the northern bank being the chief: this comprehends the old and new towns, with the suburbs of Calton, Bridgeton,…]]> KiLMARNOOK though now the greatest manufacturing town in Ayrshire is of no note in history ; even of him from whom it derives its name tradition furnishes us with but a frail memorial. St. Marnock is said to have died here about the beginning of the fourth century. But Kilmarnock is unnoticed in the annals of our country until nearly a thousand years later, and even then it is mentioned, not as a town, but as a territorial possession, conferred by Robert Bruce on his devoted follower Sir Robert Boyd. Prior to this it had been the property of Balliol,…]]> As the augmentation of information introduced into this Directory, is so considerably more weighty than was originally intended, or at all contemplated, the Editor judges itexpedient to explain the mode of its arrangement, and he begs to impress on the recollection of the Subscribers, and others who may have the Work in their possession, that the alphabetical lists of the names, which are annexed to London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc, are as plain, simple, and easy of comprehension, as the alphabet of a Ledger, and are for the express purpose of finding…]]>