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e-Library

The ScotlandsPeople Centre provides access to digital publications to aid your research. These electronic resources can be accessed from the computer network in the Dundas Room, Matheson Dome and Reid Room.

Please note that printing and downloading is not permitted.

Click on the links below to view and search the publications which are in portable document format (PDF).

1851 seamen’s crew lists

Lists, held by The National Archives in series BT98, that provide information about merchant seamen who were in port or away from home at the time of the 1851 census. The details recorded include: age, place of birth, rank and ticket number, previous and current ships with ports of registration, dates and places of joining and leaving, reason for leaving.

— Aberdeenshire

— Angus

— Lanarkshire

— Renfrewshire

— Scotland South-East

— Scotland South-West, Highlands and Islands

— Master index for Scotland, Ireland and Wales

Miscellaneous transcripts and indexes

— List of the poor of Dundee 1840

— Maryculter, Kincardineshire: Church of Scotland parish registers 1696-1855

— St Ternan’s Episcopal Church register 1729-1881

Monumental inscriptions

— Barry

— Carmyllie

— Dunbarney

— Leuchars

— Logie

— Kilmany

— Sidlaw

Statistical accounts of Scotland

Other electronic reference resources are available in Useful websites and on the stand alone computers.

The main Library collection is available in the Dundas Room.