ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) has added a million or so mother's maiden names to its online death record indexes, from between 1855 and 1880. Here's the announcement:
Update on mother’s maiden name for statutory death records
We are pleased to advise that updates are currently being made to the mother's maiden name search field in the statutory register of deaths index, as part of our ongoing improvements to our website and in response to your requests in our customer survey. Before 1974 the deceased's mother's maiden name was not routinely included. Where this information was included on the death records before this date we are retrospectively adding this to the index beginning with the years closest to the introduction of statutory registration in 1855. We have now updated most years up to 1880, adding mother’s maiden names to more than 1 million records, and plan to have completed records up to 1883 by the end of this year. You can populate the name search fields and also choose to 'include unrecorded mother's maiden surname'. You may find that if you enter a name in this search field and the information has not yet been added or it was unavailable at the time of registration then a result will not be found.
In addition, ScotlandsPeople has also added a further 1,000 more maps and plans of areas of Scotland:
We have uploaded almost 1,000 more maps and plans of areas of Scotland, all with a link to the Year of Coasts and Waters 2020.
We have published a new article which focuses on several of these plans
and their connection with surveyors and engineers of Scotland's past,
including the drafted plans of Thomas Telford the Scottish civil
engineer, architect and stonemason.
If you are interested in discovering more about Scotland's industrial history, the image library is a great place to visit.
The
library holds diverse collections of photographs, and we have explored
the images to learn more about the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders with a new
feature article. The shipbuilding image collection consists of almost
1,200 photographs of various ships built in John Brown & Company's
shipyard, Clydebank, including HMS Hood, SS Avila Star, RMS Queen Mary
and RMS Queen Elizabeth 2. Find out about all of the ships featured in the image library in our new research guide.
With thanks to ScotlandsPeople via email - the full newsletter is online at http://email.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/q/17FfLWsTOUcYaDMYnZesLg/wv
Chris
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Although more than 90% of my ancestry traces to the geographical region of France, that of my husband, George Montgomery Sommerville, leads to Scotland in the 18th and 19th century. When I was researching his family, I was delighted to find that the records I accessed almost always gave a maiden name for a wife or mother. I thought immediately of the Olde Alliance that had existed between Scotland and France, one that George, a history teacher, reminded me about when he proposed. Thanks for this reference. I will investigate to see if I can find some missing names.
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