The Newport, Wormit & Forgan Archive

1891 Census

About the 1891 census

The 1891 census was taken on the night of Sunday 5 April, 1891. The following information was gathered:

• Number of schedule (allocated consecutively from 1 in each enumeration district)
• Name of street, place, road, etc.
• House number or name
• Whether a house was inhabited, uninhabited or being built
• Name of each living person that had spent the night in that house
• Relationship of person enumerated to the head of the family
• Person's marital status
• Age at last birthday (sex is indicated by which column the age is recorded in)
• Person's profession, or occupation
• Person's place of birth - county and place (if outside of Scotland, only the country may be given)
• Whether from birth: deaf and dumb; blind; lunatic, imbecile or idiot
• Number of rooms with one or more windows
• Is Gaelic only spoken, or Gaelic and English?
• Whether an employer, a worker, or neither employer nor employed but working on own account. [Not transcribed here]
• A separate house is defined as '(1)every dwelling with a distinct outside entrance from a street, court, lane or road, etc., or (2) with a door opening directly into a common stair; but any such dwelling, if subdivided and occupied by different families, is reckoned as only a single house'.
• Lodgers and separate occupiers are given their own schedules and separated from other occupiers in the same house by a single stroke.

The remainder of this page is transcribed in full from the census returns.

The parish was split into 5 Enumeration Districts:

Enumeration District 1

Part of the Civil Parish of Forgan and of the School Board District of Forgan.
The northern boundary of this enumeration division extends from the South Lodge of Tayfield westward to Newport Castle (opposite Pluck-the-Crow Point) and thence along the seacoast to Wormit Bay. Along this boundary line are Pluck-the-Crow, Fishers Cottages, Cow Hole, the small villages of Woodhaven, Scroggieside and Wormit.
The farms of Wormit and Newton form the western boundary and separate between the Parishes of Forgan and Balmerino. The farms and cottar houses are the only houses along the boundary line.
The southern boundary extends from Newton Hill eastward to Bogton, the houses of which on the north side only belong to Forgan and form part of the boundary between Forgan and Kilmany. The southern boundary is continued from Bogton by the south of the Links and Morendy Woods, separating between Forgan and Logie and Leuchars, and meeting the southern extremity of the eastern boundary close to but not including Pickletillum.
The eastern boundary of this division extends along the main road leading from Leuchars to Newport from Commerton houses and includes along the line St Fort Smithy and Forgan Schoolhouse and ends where the northern begins at the South Lodge of Tayfield.
In the centre of this district are St Fort House and servants' houses connected therewith, the farms and cottar houses of Wester Friarton, South Friarton and Flass, Seggieden, Tayfield Mains and Waterston Crook.
James Murray, Enumerator.

Enumeration District 2

Part of the Civil Parish of Forgan and of the School Board District of Forgan.
The northern boundary of this enumeration division extends from where the southern boundary of Newport quoad sacra parish crosses the Turnpike or Cupar Road (one half mile directly south from High Water Mark) and continues east along the southern boundary of said parish to the boundary line between the parishes of Forgan and Ferry-port-on-Craig. The houses near the boundary are Cliff Terrace, Castle Hill or Chester Hill, and Knowhead.
The eastern boundary of this division is Morton Estate in Forgan parish between Forgan, Ferry-port-on-Craig and Leuchars, extending to the farms of Ninewells and Kirktonbarns. The houses along the boundary line are Morton Farm and cottar houses, Ninewells, Burnside and Lawhouses.
The southern boundary passes along the north of Cowbakie Hill and Craigie Hill to the Turnpike Road from Leuchars to Newport. The houses near the line are Cauldhame, Forgan Manse, Myreside and Easter Friarton.
The western boundary of this division is the Turnpike Road to Newport on to the boundary line of Newport quoad sacra parish.
In the centre of this enumeration district are the farms and cottar houses of Inverdovat, Causewayhead and Roseberry.
Robert Keith, Enumerator.

Enumeration District 3

Part of the Police Burgh of Newport, of the Civil Parish of Forgan, of the quoad sacra Parish of Newport and of the School Board District of Forgan. This enumeration division comprises the western half of the village of Newport, commonly called West Newport, and Tayfield.
Its northern boundary is the Firth of Tay and extends from and includes Cunningham's Land opposite the east end of High Street Newport, to Wellgate House.
Its western boundary extends from Wellgate House to Waterston Crook .
Its southern boundary extends from Waterston Crook along the Kirk Road and main road to Newport.
Its eastern boundary is the main road down to east end of High Street Newport.
With the exception of Tayfield House, Westwood, Kinbrae and Balmore, the houses in this district are close together and commonly known as Tayside.
John Langlands, Enumerator.

Enumeration District 4

Part of the Police Burgh of Newport, of the Civil Parish of Forgan, of the quoad sacra Parish of Newport and of the School Board District of Forgan. This enumeration division comprises the whole of Easter Newport.
Its northern boundary is the Firth of Tay.
Its western boundary is the same as the eastern boundary of No. 3 Enumeration division.
Its southern boundary is the northern boundary of No. 2 Enumeration division.
The eastern boundary is the boundary between the quoad sacra Parish of Newport and the Parish of Ferry-Port-on-Craig.
It consists of Darvel Lodge, Linden Avenue, Laurel Terrace, Youngsdale Place, Station House, Struan Place, Myrtle Terrace, Hillside Crescent, St. Phillans Place, William Street, Robert Street, James Street, Tay Street, Union Street, King Street, Queen Street, Woodbine Terrace, Maryfield Terrace, Bellevue Terrace, Tay Terrace, Woodriffe Terrace, Prospect Terrace, and Tayview Terrace; also the Farms of Craighead and Northfield and cottar houses. John Melville junior, Enumerator.

Enumeration District 5

Training Ship 'Mars'
In the River Tay, off Woodhaven Pier
Charles C. Scott, Captain Superintendent.

Statistics

Note: Nobody spoke Gaelic only.

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