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 summary 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


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