Dumfriesshire Valuation rolls (1896-97)

Valuation rolls were collected annually from 1854 to 1988. For each property they record the name and designation of the proprietor, the tenant, the occupier and the annual rateable value. They do not list any other residents in a property.

I hope you find the valuation roll for Dumfriesshire (1896-97) that we a putting on-line helpful. For ease of access we are uploading them as PDF files but as they are quite large files customers without broadband may struggle to view the images. If this is the case please contact me for other possibilities.

Please note this is the landward part of Annan parish, the town section is in a separate volume.

Annan part one

Annan part two

Applegirth/Applegarth

Caerlaverock


Historical letters and other ephemera

Gretna letter Two very socially interesting letters. Two letters sent from Annan on June 1873 regarding Mrs Mary Cron or Scott, wife of John Scott Riggfoot, Graitney (Gretna). It would seem Mary has been in receipt of benefit from the parochial Board and now that she has inherited money from her sister it is being requested she pays it back.

Hawick Rugby dinner card Hawick Rugby football club Complimentary dinner card. Friday 29th April 1927. This card belonged to Robert Archibald Vivian Grieve born on the 28th of October 1907 and died on the 24th of October 1942. It is signed by all members of that year’s team who are; C.H. Farmer, R.A.V. Grieve, A. C. Pinder, W.A. Mactaggart, R.N.R. Storrie, R. Irvine, A. Bowie, R.P. Miller, C. Keillor, W. Corbett, G.R. Cairns, D.S. Davies, J.B. Stevenson, W.B. Welsh, J. Fraser, W.E. Anderson, R. Foster, T. Glendinning, R. Knox, J. Beattie, F. Gillingan and J. Corbett

Annan letter Letter sent from Mr. Little of Annan to a Carlisle Solicitor in April 1837. It is regarding Salmon Fishing in the River Annan.

Buccleuch Thank you card 1909 Thank you card sent from The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch to Mr. Robert Grieve thanking him for a wedding anniversary gift in 1909.

The Edinburgh Gazette From Tuesday the 28th of December 1847.

Chambers Edinburgh Journal No. 2 From Saturday the 11th of Febuary 1832.

Chambers Edinburgh Journal No. 386 From Saturday the 22nd of June 1839.


Chambers' Historical Newspaper

Chambers’ Historical Newspaper, Conducted by William and Robert Chambers, editors of “Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal”. These are very interesting newspapers with a lot of source information useful in conducting genealogy in Scotland. Particularly helpful is the Birth, marriages and Death notices in each newspaper.

We have not indexed this newspaper however we are giving you a summery of its contents to aid your research.

Issue No.1- November 2nd 1832

Summary of Issue No.1:
Preliminary Explanations
Foreign Politics
Home Politics
The Currency question
Church Establishments
Foreign news – France, Holland & Belgium, Portugal, Turkey, Jamaica.
England – The Revenue, Proposed Railroad from London to Dover, Cholera, Annual cost of a private soldier, Madame Letitia Bonaparte’s Will, Preservation of dead bodies.
Ireland
Scotland – Sir Walter Scott, Preferments, Crimes, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Scottish Bankrupts, Cholera in Edinburgh, Dumfries, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness

Issue No.2- December 1st 1832

Summary of Issue No.2:
History of the British parties (political)
A word for the working classes
The Funds: The funds, as they are called are pledges or promises of the nation to pay the debts, which it has from time to time contracted.
Foreign news: Holland & Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Church dissent in France.
England: Movements against the Dutch war, the election, falling of houses and Sunday trading.
Ireland
Scotland: The death of Sir John Leslie, Sir Walter Scott, County of Selkirk – suitable mark of respect to the memory of Sir Walter Scott, Desecration of the Sabbath, Popular Education, Cholera, Preferment’s, Trade and Manufactures, fairs and markets, crimes, birth, marriages, deaths and Scottish Bankrupts.

Issue No.3- January 3rd 1833

Summary of Issue No.3:
Positions of the parties (political) The currency Foreign news – Surrender of the citadel – America England General Election Scotland – Sabbath Profanation, Destructive fire in Leith, BMD’s, Preferments, Scottish Bankrupts