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Prison registers | ScotlandsPeople
Select prison registers with dates of admission up to and including 1921 are available to search and view on ScotlandsPeople. Perth Prison registers (male), 1888 to 1897, 1902 to 1909, 1913 to 1921. Those Perth Prison registers dated between 1867 and 1879 (NRS, HH21/47/1-4) are described as ‘convict journals’.
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/prison-registers
Crime and Criminals | National Records of Scotland
The Admiralty Court dealt with crimes committed on the high seas or in harbours, including smuggling, piracy and trading with the enemy. The records of the court cover the period from 1557 to 1830, when the court was abolished. They include criminal trial reports for the period 1705-1830 (AC16).
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/crime-and-criminals
Birth, Death and Marriage Records - National Records of Scotland
Statutory Register of Dissolutions (from 2007) The majority of Scottish birth, death and marriage records are held in the custody of the Registrar General for Scotland at New Register House in Edinburgh. There are separate guides to each of the registers which you can access at the links below. You can order an official extract (or certificate ...
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/birth-death-and-marriage-records
Scottish Indexes - Helping you trace your Scottish family tree
Try widening the birth year range if you do not find the person you are looking for. Enter a parish name in the first box; a county name in the second box; and a country name in the third box. Sometimes the birthplace is given as only a country, or is not known, so if you don’t find the result you are looking for try leaving some (or all) of ...
https://www.scottishindexes.com/prisonsearch.aspx
Scottish Indexes - Helping you trace your Scottish family tree
If you can’t see the one you need please get in touch with our genealogists, Graham and Emma Maxwell. The Prison Register record set now contains 501,749 entries. Aberdeen Prison 1836-1839, 1879-1880, 1884, 1888-1911. Ayr Prison 1888-1905. Banff Prison 1848-1878. Campbeltown Prison 1840-1882. Cromarty Prison 1841-1871. Dumbarton Prison 1828-1840.
https://www.scottishindexes.com/coverageprison.aspx
Advanced Search | ScotlandsPeople
Search church registers of births (or baptisms), marriages and burials in Scotland from 1553 onwards. Census returns. Search the lists of people recorded in censuses taken every 10 years in Scotland from 1841 onwards. Valuation rolls. Search lists of owners and occupiers of buildings and other properties in Scotland from 1855 onwards. Legal records
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/advanced-search/prison-registers
Unlocking Scotland’s past: Perth Prison registers now online
Thursday, 24 Feb 2022. National Records of Scotland (NRS) have today released Perth Prison registers online, the first time records like these have been made available digitally. The names of men, women and children held at HMP Perth – Scotland’s first general prison – can now be searched free of charge via ScotlandsPeople, NRS’s family ...
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2022/unlocking-scotland%E2%80%99s-past-perth-prison-registers-now-online
Statutory register of births | ScotlandsPeople
Register of Corrected Entries. The statutory register of births dates from 1 January 1855 when compulsory, civil registration was introduced in Scotland. The records are indexed by personal name. If you need a birth certificate for official or legal purposes please go to Certificates and copies for guidance about online ordering.
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/record-guides/statutory-register-births
Certificate Search | ScotlandsPeople
Certificate Search. You can order birth, death, marriage, civil partnership, divorce and dissolution of civil partnership certificates online here. Select a record type from the drop-down menu, search for the register entry and click order certificate. You need a credit or debit card to use this service. You can also order official certified ...
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/certificate-search
Find your Scottish ancestors | ScotlandsPeople
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Search our records | ScotlandsPeople
Place search. Search for records relating to specific places across Scotland. Place search. Virtual Volumes. Use to find records for kirk sessions, other courts, and government bodies, including the Scottish Cabinet. ... A partnership between the National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon ...
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