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FAMILY NAMES

  • Caithness Family History Society
  • Caithness Surname List

    GOVERNMENT SITES

  • The Highland Council

    HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • The Highland Clearances - its causes, effects and results.
  • The Highland Clearances - details of the evictions of Highland residents during the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • Highland Clearances chronology - a list of significant dates between 1762 and 1856 from the excellent book 'The Highland Clearances' by John Prebble (1969).

    Newhaven fishwives

    LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES

  • North Highland Archive - index
  • Highland Archives - North of Scotland, local & military history from 13th Century onwards from the Highlands & Islands.
  • Highland Council Archive - holds the records for Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty, Inverness-shire, & Nairnshire. In addition it is responsible for the records of 13 Burghs within the Highlands.
  • Highland Photographic Archive
  • North Highland Archive - Caithness & Sutherland information covering parish records, historical and family documents. Searches can be carried out on your behalf by staff for a fee.
  • Highland Council - Thurso Library.
  • Highland Council - Wick Library.
  • Highland Council - Museums list.

    LOCAL WEBSITES

  • LONACH - Highland & Friendly Society list of members.
  • THURSO - Undiscovered Scotland - general information and history from this pretty site.
  • WICK - Undiscovered Scotland - general information and history.
  • WICK & LATHERON - combination Poorhouse, list of residents from the 1881 Census.

    MAPS, GAZETTEERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  • Ordnance Survey maps - free online maps covering the period 1860-1870.
  • Town Plan of Wick - surveyed 1872

    MILITARY

  • Caithness War Memorials
  • Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in the Highlands
  • Caithness Roll of Honour

    NEWSPAPERS

  • The John O'Groats and Caithness Courier - recent online archives available.

    Highland women at work. The couple on the left are grinding at a quern, others are 'waulking' (fulling) cloth with their feet. They are singing as they work.

    OTHER BITS AND PIECES

  • Poorhouses in Scotland - Latheron Combination & Thurso Combination.
  • Caithness Parish and Probate Records - include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists & wills.
  • GENUKI's Caithness Genealogy Page
  • UK FreeCEN Project - Caithness 1841, 1851 & 1861 Census Project status page
  • Ships in Port in Caithness, Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty - 1881
  • Caithness Cemeteries - index of pre-1855 Tombestone Inscriptions
  • Highland Homecomings Research Project - research project exploring journeys made by people of Scottish descent from throughout the world back to Scotland researching genealogy, visiting ancestral places, etc. Based at the Highland Folk Museum, Kingussie, Scotland.
  • Highland Council Genealogy Centre
  • 1841 Caithness Free Census Project

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