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The Newport, Wormit & Forgan Archive

Directories

A directory of Newport and (later) Wormit appears in the Dundee Directory in 1834, 1853, and from 1867 to 1974. There is a complete run of this publication at the Local History Centre, Dundee Central Library. National directories (e.g. those by Slater, Pigot and McDonald) also have sections for Newport or Forgan.

All known directories have been included here, giving complete coverage from 1825 to 1974, when the Dundee publication ceased. There are over 125900 entries in this database.

The latest entries in this database are for 1974.

These pages allow you to

Directories usually list only the head of the household (rather like present-day telephone directories). However, not every householder is included, as the entries had to be paid for.

Directory entries are always in alphabetical order by surname, with the surname given first. The surname may or may not be followed by a comma; don't search for "J Mudie" but for starts with Mudie and contains J .

Example entries:

The original Dundee directories can be found at the Dundee Central Library; or online at the National Library of Scotland's Scottish Directories pages (for years up to 1911), and at the Internet Archive (for years up to 1941) . Early editions of national directories (by Pigot, Slater, and others) are also online there.
Information about this transcription is on the Methodology page.

For complete directories, select the appropriate link at the foot of the page.

To search across different directories, enter your search criteria in the boxes below.   (You can use * or ? wildcards)

Searching for Macs? Mc, Mac, M' and M (space) may exist. To search for them all, use M* in the search box. (e.g. M*Intosh or M*Donald)
Old spellings can be unusual. You may need to search several times.
Search terms are not case-sensitive, i.e. searching for 'smith' will find Smith or smith.

Each search term can be either    'starts with'    or    'contains'   ['starts with smith' will find Smith or Smithson, 'contains smith' will find Smith, Smithson, or blacksmiths]

Only the first search box is required. All others are optional.

Try just one surname first then take it from there.

Search for:
starts with   or    contains       Required field   (You can use * or ? wildcards)

and   or  

starts with   or    contains   

name, A-Z
date (oldest first)
reverse date (newest first)

The following Directories are included:

1825 Pigot ;

1834 Dundee ; 1837 Pigot ;

1842-43 Dundee ; 1842 Gentlemen's Seats ; 1845 Dundee ; 1846-47 Dundee ;

1850 Dundee ; 1852 Slater ; 1853 Noblemen ; 1853-54 Dundee ; 1856-57 Dundee ; 1857 Noblemen ; 1858-59 Dundee ;

1861 Slater ; 1862 Fife ; 1862 County ; 1866 Fife ; 1867 Slater ; 1867-68 Dundee ; 1869-70 Dundee ;

1871-72 Dundee ; 1873 Slater ; 1874-75 Dundee ; 1876-77 Dundee ; 1877 Worrall ; 1878 Slater ; 1878-79 Dundee ;

1880-81 Dundee ; 1882 Slater ; 1882-83 Dundee ; 1884-85 Dundee ; 1884 Macdonald ; 1885 Clark ; 1885 Macdonald ; 1885-86 Dundee ; 1886 Slater ; 1886-87 Dundee ; 1887-88 Dundee ; 1888-89 Dundee ; 1889 Slater ; 1889-90 Dundee ;

1890-91 Dundee ; 1891-92 Dundee ; 1891-92 Macdonald ; 1891-92 Lamburn ; 1892-93 Dundee ; 1893 Slater ; 1893-94 Dundee ; 1894-95 Dundee ; 1895 Edinburgh Almanac ; 1895 Clarke ; 1895-96 Dundee ; 1896-97 Dundee ; 1896 Slater ; 1897-98 Dundee ; 1897-98 Macdonald ; 1898-99 Dundee ; 1898-99 Macdonald ; 1899 Telephone ; 1899 Slater ; 1899-00 Dundee ; 1899-00 Macdonald ;

1900-01 Dundee ; 1900-01 Macdonald ; 1901-02 Dundee ; 1901-02 Macdonald ; 1902-03 Dundee ; 1902-03 Macdonald ; 1903 Slater ; 1903-04 Dundee ; 1903-04 Macdonald ; 1904-05 Dundee ; 1904-05 Macdonald ; 1905-06 Dundee ; 1905-06 Macdonald ; 1906-07 Dundee ; 1906-07 Macdonald ; 1907 Slater ; 1907 Tayside Annual ; 1907-08 Dundee ; 1907-08 Macdonald ; 1908-09 Dundee ; 1908 Tayside Annual ; 1908-09 Macdonald ; 1909-10 Dundee ; 1909-10 Macdonald ;

1910-11 Dundee ; 1910-11 Macdonald ; 1911-12 Dundee ; 1911 Slater ; 1911-12 Macdonald ; 1912-13 Dundee ; 1912-13 Macdonald ; 1913-14 Dundee ; 1913-14 Macdonald ; 1914-15 Dundee ; 1914-15 Macdonald ; 1915-16 Dundee ; 1915 Slater ; 1915-16 Macdonald ; 1916-17 Macdonald ; 1917-18 Macdonald ; 1918-19 Dundee ; 1918-19 Macdonald ; 1919-20 Macdonald ;

1920-21 Dundee ; 1921 Slater ; 1921-22 Macdonald ; 1922-23 Dundee ; 1923-24 Dundee ; 1923-24 Macdonald ; 1924-25 Macdonald ; 1925-26 Dundee ; 1925-26 Macdonald ; 1926-27 Dundee ; 1926-27 Macdonald ; 1927-28 Dundee ; 1927-28 Macdonald ; 1928-29 Dundee ; 1928 Kelly ; 1928-29 Macdonald ; 1929-30 Dundee ; 1929-30 Macdonald ;

1930-31 Dundee ; 1930-31 Macdonald ; 1931-32 Dundee ; 1931-32 Macdonald ; 1932-33 Dundee ; 1933-34 Dundee ; 1933-34 Macdonald ; 1934-35 Dundee ; 1934-35 Macdonald ; 1935-36 Dundee ; 1935-36 Macdonald ; 1936-37 Dundee ; 1936-37 Macdonald ; 1937-38 Dundee ; 1937-38 Macdonald ; 1938-39 Dundee ; 1938-39 Macdonald ; 1939-40 Dundee ; 1939-40 Macdonald ;

1940-41 Dundee ; 1940-41 Macdonald ; 1941-42 Dundee ; 1941-42 Macdonald ; 1942-43 Dundee ; 1942-43 Macdonald ; 1946-47 Dundee ; 1947-48 Dundee ; 1948-49 Dundee ; 1949-50 Macdonald ; 1949-50 Dundee ;

1950-51 Dundee; 1951-52 Dundee ; 1952-53 Dundee; 1953-54 Dundee ; 1954-55 Dundee ; 1955-56 Dundee; 1956-57 Dundee; 1957-58 Macdonald ; 1957-58 Dundee; 1958-59 Dundee ;

1960 Dundee ; 1961 Dundee ; 1962 Dundee ; 1963 Dundee ; 1963-64 Macdonald ; 1964 Dundee ; 1965 Dundee ; 1966 Dundee ; 1967 Dundee ; 1968 Dundee ; 1969 Macdonald ; 1969 Dundee ;

1970 Macdonald ; 1970 Dundee ; 1971 Dundee ; 1972 Dundee ; 1973 Dundee ; 1974 Dundee

 

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