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FAMILY NAMES
Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society
GOVERNMENT SITES
Dumfries & Galloway Council
HISTORY AND CULTURE
Stranraer and District Local History Trust
Dumfriesshire & Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES
Dumfries & Galloway Council - Archives Centre.
Dumfries & Galloway Council - Museums Service.
LOCAL WEBSITES
CRUGGLETON & KIRKMADRINE - churchyards names index.
GLASSERTON - census of 1851 index of heads of family.
GLENLUCE - 1851 census.
INCH - 1851 census.
KIRKCOLM - 1851 census.
KIRKCOWAN - 1851 census.
KIRKINNER - churchyard name index.
KIRKINNER - 1851 census.
KIRKMAIDEN & DRUMMORE.
LESWALT - 1851 census.
LESWALT - parish deaths 1815-1843.
MINNIGAFF - 1851 census.
MOCHRUM - 1851 census.
NEW LUCE - 1851 census.
OLD WHITHORN - St. Ninians Church name index.
PENNINGHAME - churchyard name index.
PENNINGHAME - parish census of 1851.
PORTPATRICK - death entries 1738-1818.
PORTPATRICK - 1851 census.
SORBIE - churchyard name index.
SORBIE - 1851 Census.
STONEYKIRK -
death Entries 1778-1797.
STONEYKIRK - 1851 census.
STRANRAER - 1851 census.
STRANRAER - residents of Combination Poor House 1881 census.
STRANRAER - 1881 Census residents of Combination Poor House, Dalrymple St, Inch, Stranraer.
WHITHORN - Kirkyard Name Index.
WHITHORN - 1851 census.
WIGTOWN & MINNIGAFF - 1851 census.
WIGTOWN - 1855 death index.
WIGTOWN - 1912 Trade Directory.
MAPS, GAZETTEERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Ordnance Survey maps - free online maps covering the period 1860-1870.
Wigtownshire - historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:10,560 scale.
STRANRAER - town plan surveyed 1847.
STRANRAER - town plan surveyed 1863-77.
STRANRAER - town plan surveyed 1893.
WIGTOWN - town plan surveyed 1848.
WIGTOWN - town plan surveyed 1894.
MILITARY
Wigtown Roll of Honour
Napoleonic Militia List - During the Napoleonic wars (1799-1815) each parish had to supply men for the Militia. The system was that all the eligible men in the parish had their names put in a barrel and the required number were drawn out.
Wigtownshire War Memorials
Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in Dumfries & Galloway / Shetland Isles
Chelsea Royal Hospital discharged soldier list - These Discharged Soldiers lists are from the records for the Royal Chelsea Hospital in London, which was founded by King Charles II. The famous buildings of the hospital, designed by Sir Christoper Wren and opened in 1691 by William and Mary, still provide a London home for over 400 disabled ex-servicemen. All the Chelsea Pensioners are discharged veterans of the British Army, and even today they are readily recognizable on many formal occasions in their striking red uniforms. Both In-pensioners and Out-pensioners are in this well known group, and many of the latter have appeared in emigration records, especially for Australia and New Zealand.
Glasgow & South Western Railway - names from WW1 war memorial at Ayr Station
NEWSPAPERS
Stranraer & Wigtown Free Press
The Galloway Gazette
Wigtown Free Press - index, limited free search.
OTHER BITS AND PIECES
Poorhouses in Scotland - Linlithgow Combination.
GENUKI's pages for Wigtownshire
Shipping Registers Database - shipping registers of
Dumfries (1824- 1904), Kirkcudbright (1824-1841), Stranraer (1824-1908) & Wigtown (1836-1920).
Parish Lists - of Wigtownshire & Minnigaff 1684 - Index of Names.
The Wigtown Directory of 1912
The Wigtownshire Pages - genealogy site with some original databases.
Wigtownshire GenWeb - part of the British Isles GenWeb Project which was created to help researchers find local resources and reference information.
Wigtown Wills 1700-1800
Wigtownshire Churchyards
Dumfries & Galloway Council - 1851 census.
UK FreeCEN Project - Wigtownshire Census project status page.
Wigtownshire 1851 Census - partially completed.
1851 Census - Heads of Household Heads of Household Wigtownshire Parishes.
1851 Census - of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire & Wigtownshire.
1855 death records
M'Kerlie's Wigtownshire Estates - Properties and Farms (pub. 1870 & 1877).
Dumfries & Galloway Council - burial grounds.
IGI Batch Numbers for Wigtown
Dumfries-Galloway moumental inscriptions - partial list of over 50 churchyards.
Miscellaneous Dumfries & Galloway graveyard inscriptions
Ports of Wigtownshire, Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire Shipping Registers. - the Shipping Registers of Dumfries 1824-to-1904, Kirkcudbright 1824-1841, Stranraer 1824-1908 and Wigtown 1836-1920 have been indexed by two of the "Friends of the Archives of Dumfries and Galloway."
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