The Newport, Wormit & Forgan Archive

Changes, Updates and Corrections

6 October 2024	Added: Plan of part of Scotscraig (covering East Newport), John Hope 1769, - geo-referenced overlay Updated: Railway Plans Added: The Tay Bridge & Dundee Union Railway, 1864 Added: The Newport Railways, 1865, 1866 & 1869
1 August 2024	Added: Testaments of William Gordon, Woodhaven, died 1802 - details of 2 vessels owned by him Updated: 1909-10 Finance act : Valuation Office - pages re-written and updated. Added: more 1909-10 Finance Act : Valuation Office maps giving locations of properties - now cover Newport and Wormit
4 July 2024	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1972-73 (burgh only), 1974-75 (burgh only) Added: Testament of James Oven, 1719 Added: Testament of Stephen Downie, 1773 Added: The Just family - family group sheets Added: Town Councillors: added for years to 1975
4 June 2024	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1968-69 (burgh only) Added: Inventory of David Brown, farmer & innkeeper, died 1825 Added: Plans of the Caledonian Railway (Tay Ferries), 1869 & 1872 Added: Maps of the Ferry Pier area, 1845 - 1966
5 April 2024	Added: Town Council Minutes: newspaper reports to cover missing volume for 1896-97
1 March 2024	Added: Town Council Minutes: newspaper reports to cover missing volume for 1895-96
3 January 2024	Added to the Library: Regulations Concerning the Ferries Over the Tay, 1809 Added: diagram showing the right of sepulture of heritors inside the old church at Forgan Added: Geo-referenced overlay - Plan of Newport 1825, John Steedman
1 October 2023	Added: Town Council Minutes: newspaper reports to cover missing volume for 1894-95
1 August 2023	Added: Town Council Minutes: newspaper reports to cover missing volumes for 1892-93 & 1893-94 Added: Valuation Rolls: 1973-74 (burgh only)
30 June 2023	Added: Thomas Roger, grocer, invoices
2 April 2023	Added to the Library: Evolution of the "Mars" Ship, A L Scott, October 1917 Reference links to sources added to Directories
1 March 2023	Added: Information and statistics for the 1921 census Technical: Moved the whole site and domain to a new host: Zen hosting Technical: Following an unsuccessful site intrusion in December, the software used for the blog was updated. Moral: keep everything backed-up and updated.
6 February 2023	Vicarsford Cemetery pages updated The Lairs & Stones page now includes all visible gravestone inscriptions up to early 2022. The Vicarsford name index and Which Cemetery? have also been updated.
5 January 2023	Added: Index to Dean of Guild Plans 1890-1907 (incomplete) - Index only, no plans on site
1 December 2022	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1966-67 (burgh only)
1 Nov 2022	Added: 1857 Register of Voters Added: 1859 voters at the Fife County Election - which also lists who they voted for
1 Oct 2022	Added: Town Council Minutes: newspaper reports to cover missing volume for 1891-92
1 Sep 2022	Added: Railway Plan - Parts of Newport & Woodhaven 1845 - the Glasgow & Dundee Junction Railway Company, and accompanying explanation in the blog Added: Railway Plans - map showing some of the railways - planned or built - in Forgan parish Added to the Library: the original rules & regulations for Vicarsford cemetery Added: Statistics from the 1801 - 1831 censuses
4 Aug 2022	Vicarsford Cemetery pages completely rewritten - with grateful thanks to Alan Reid: Lairs & Stones are indexed by the original cemetery lair numbers. The surnames of all purchasers (up to early 2022) are given. The 1992-3 recorded gravestone inscriptions are included in the new listing. A new lair plan is given. The Vicarsford name index and Which Cemetery? have also been updated.
25 Jun 2022	Added: Railway Plan - Part of Newport 1845 - the Edinburgh & Northern Railway Company, and accompanying explanation in the blog
10 May 2022	Added: Which Cemetery? - a combined listing of those named on stones in Forgan Kirkyard and Vicarsford Cemetery, plus links to Newport / Forgan residents who are in the Dundee Howff Burials Index or who purchased lairs in Dundee Western Cemetery
23 Apr 2022	Sasines from 1782 to April 1894 (for Newport) and to December 1896 (for Wormit) are now complete, plus a few earlier and a few later. All bar 6 plots are recorded and mapped. (If a property is not included, then it was not mentioned in the sasines during that period.)
13 Feb 2022	Added: Sasine Abridgements up to 1892 now listed Added to the Library: Tayfield Recollections by Jim Smith, 2002 Added: list of Town Councillors (to 1961)
5 Jan 2022	Sasines pages completely rewritten, added explanations and methodology
20 Dec 2021	Added: Sasine Abridgements up to 1886 now listed Corrected: Map showing very early feus on Tayfield Estate now working properly
19 October 2021	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1971-72 (burgh only) Added: Town Council Minutes: newspaper reports to cover missing volumes for 1889-90, 1890-91 Added: Map showing very early feus on Tayfield Estate Added to all maps: the choice of map or aerial view as a base layer. (This was always available, now it is more visible.) Added: Sasine Abridgements up to 1875 now listed Added: improved property links to Newport History Group's website
1 July 2021	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1925-26 (complete), 1958-59 (complete)
1 June 2021	Added: Registers of Voters: 1879-80 Added: Valuation Roll: 1920-21 (complete)
1 April 2021	Added: Map of Place Names & Old Places which links to information about their meanings and their earliest occurrences (from The Place-names of Fife). 'Old Places' added to present-day addresses Added: Valuation Roll: 1930-31 (complete), 1935-36 (complete) Late 19th-century estate boundaries added to 19th-century feuing areas & estates map.
1 March 2021	Added: 18th century Taxation Records, 1748 - 1798 : completed, with window tax. Identifiable locations have been added to the property page information. Added: Valuation Roll: 1940-41 (complete); 1958-59 (landward) Added: property pages now have links to 1914 Ordnance Survey 25-inch maps (but markers cannot be shown)
1 February 2021	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1901-02; 1905-06; 1920-21 (landward); 1925-26 (landward); 1930-31 (landward); 1935-36 (landward); 1940-41 (landward);
1 January 2021	Added: more links to maps of the area at the National Library of Scotland Added: Valuation Roll: 1899-1900 Added: transcripts of about a quarter of the 1909-10 Finance Act - Valuation Office: Field Surveys for properties in Newport Burgh and Forgan
1 December 2020	Added: Map - Proposals for the original Burgh Boundary, 1887 Added: Valuation Roll: 1969-70 Added: 18th century Taxation Records, 1748 - 1798 : carriage tax, cart tax, clock & watch tax, etc Added: Town Council Minutes: newspaper reports to cover missing volume for 1888-89
1 November 2020	Added: links to Newport History Group's website Added: Valuation Rolls: 1897-98, 1915-6, 1969-70 (a few entries) Added: some older directories: 1842 Gentlemen's Seats, 1842-43 Dundee, 1845 Dundee, 1846-47 Dundee, 1850 Dundee, 1853 Noblemen, 1856-57 Dundee, 1857 Noblemen, 1858-59 Dundee, 1862 County ; but only 110 entries between them Added: Town Council Minutes: newspaper reports to cover missing volumes for 1887-88, 1898-99 Solved: the location of Newport Golf Course
1 October 2020	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1894-5, 1895-6 Added: Early Land Taxation records, 1649 - 1820
2 September 2020	Clicking the links to old Ordnance Survey maps on the property pages now gives a marker showing the location of the property (previously it merely centred the map on the property). Almost all linkages from directories, valuation rolls and later censuses to the properties are now done. Still outstanding are: James Square pre-1885, and many entries in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses.
8 May 2020	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1890-1, 1891-2, 1892-3, 1898-9 (Wormit only), 1909-10 (Wormit & part of West Newport only), 1910-11 (Wormit and part of West Newport only) Added to the Library: History of the Church in Forgan Parish, Rev. A P Bogie, 1974
1 October 2019	Added: Vicarsford Cemetery - from a survey taken in 1992 - 1993: Vicarsford Cemetery - the stones Notes about the Cemetery Vicarsford plan Vicarsford name index
1 May 2019	Added: links to aerial photos on the Maps Index page Added: links to 'Information and Photographs on Other Sites' on some property pages
1 December 2018	Added: Forgan Kirkyard - this has been a long time coming (sorry): Forgan Kirkyard - introductory page Forgan Kirkyard Stones - inscriptions and photos Forgan Kirkyard Plan Forgan Kirkyard Gravedigger's Book burials from 1899 onwards (198 entries)
1 November 2018	Added: Newport Burgh boundary map
1 October 2018	Added: Properties map - shows all proeprties existing in 1964 and many earlier ones. Provides links to individual property pages Removed nearly all Googlemaps and replaced them with OpenStreetMaps At last! removed Google Streetview interior shots
1 July 2018	Added: Ordnance Survey [Map] Name Books, 1854 Added to Maps: link to 1966 25-inches to the mile, geo-referenced for all except the extreme west of Wormit & Newton, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1 May 2018	Added: Valuation Roll: 1967-68 Added to the Library: Newport and the Dundee Guildry, from Burgh Laws of Dundee ..., A J Warden, 1872 Newport-on-Tay - from J M Beatts Reminiscences of an old Dundonian, 1882
1 February 2018	a few introductory notes on individual properties, now searchable Kirk Session Minutes (1695-1884) & Heritors' Records (1845-1921) - notes and extracts from them
3 January 2018	Added: Valuation Roll: 1964-65
12 November 2017	Added: Valuation Roll: 1961-62 some Sasine entries (not for the faint-hearted)
7 October 2017	Added: Valuation Roll: 1957-58 Added: Testament of James Farmer, died 1763, with a commentary on Jottings
5 August 2017	Added: Valuation Roll: 1952-53
2 July 2017	Added: Valuation Roll: 1947-48 Added to the Library: Newport United Presbyterian Church - from History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 by Robert Small, 1904
12 June 2017	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1937-38, 1942-43 Completed improvements to make the site more mobile-friendly
5 May 2017	Added: Valuation Rolls: 1927-28, 1932-33 Start to make improvements to make the site more mobile-friendly
2 April 2017	more linking of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls a couple more Jottings
5 March 2017	Photo Galleries - three collections of photos of the Norwegain Air Force at Woodhaven 1942-45 - over 840 photos just a few more linkings of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls
11 February 2017	Jottings, a blog which will contain articles about specific topics, background information and comments on local history, leaving the rest of the site purely for the records themselves.
4 February 2017	more linking of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls
1 January 2017	just a few more linkings of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls
3 December 2016	even more linking of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls map showing location of Wormit Bay Golf Course removed restriction displaying only the most recent 20 entries in Directory listings on Property Pages
1 November 2016	more linking of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls Valuation Roll: 1922-23
1 October 2016	even more more linking of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls
2 September 2016	more linking of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls
1 August 2016	more linking of properties to the directories, censuses & valuation rolls an indication on the present-day address page of which properties are linked
1 July 2016	An updated and searchable list of house names and old addresses giving their present-day locations and linked to the Property page An updated list of present-day address linked to the Property page An updated Property page, linked from Directories, Census, Addresses, etc. This will bring together all the information on a particular property in one place and will allow the history of a property to be displayed. Note: it will take a while for all this information to be gathered and linked, meanwhile a considerable amount is already there. More links about the Tay Bridges
1 June 2016	new website address : newportarchive.co.uk sorted annoying menu display problem on tablets
6 May 2016	Added to the Maps page: links to 1914 Ordnance Survey 25-inches to the mile, for the landward areas of the parish Added to the Library: Forgan section of A H Millar's Fife Pictorial & Historical, 1895
6 April 2016	Added: Valuation Roll: 1903-04
3 March 2016	Added to the Library: Introduction from Westwood's Parochial Directory for the Counties of Fife and Kinross, 1862 Introduction from Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland, 1867 Introduction from Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland, 1889 Introduction from Slater's Royal National Directory of Scotland, 1911 and 1921 Newspaper report: seizure of geneva, 1841
2 February 2016	Added: Valuation Roll: 1900-01
2 January 2016	Added: Valuation Roll: 1896-97
1 December 2015	Added: Valuation Roll: 1893-94 Added to the Library: Transcripts of remaining chapters of Neish's History of Newport and the Parish of Forgan; and Rambles Round the District, 1890 Transcripts of the Forgan sections of some Early Gazetteers - Chalmers 1803, Constable 1806, Webster 1819, Turnbull 1825, Chambers 1838 Transcript of relevant sections of Francis Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1901)
1 November 2015	Added: Valuation Roll: 1889-90 Download page: brings all downloads into one location; includes several items with no relevance to Forgan whatsoever names recorded on the St Fillan's U F Church War Memorial Added to updated Library Contents page: Transcript of Forgan section of The 'Old' Statistical Account of Scotland, 1793 Transcript of Forgan section of The New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1838 Transcript of Forgan section of History of the County of Fife, J M Leighton, 1840 Transcript of Forgan section of David Webster's Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1819) Transcript of Forgan section of Fullarton's Topographical, Statistical and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland (1842) Transcript of Forgan section of Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1846) Transcript of Forgan section of Barbieri's Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of the Counties of Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan (1857) Transcript of the Forgan section of Wilson's Gazetteer of Scotland, 1882 Transcript of relevant sections of Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4) Transcript of relevant sections of Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1892-6) Transcripts of some chapters of Neish's History of Newport and the Parish of Forgan; and Rambles Round the District, 1890 Links to relevent entries in Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - (biographies of Church of Scotland ministers)
1 October 2015	Added: Valuation Roll: 1907-08
1 September 2015	Added: Valuation Roll: 1917-18
1 August 2015	Added: Valuation Roll: 1912-13 Added to the Library: Newport Revisited - from The Dundee Yearbook 1910
1 July 2015	Added to the library: Talk on the History of Newport by Provost Newell, 1964 Dear Old Home Town poem
1 June 2015	Added: More Directories: 1907 Tayside Annual, 1908 Tayside Annual, 1924 Macdonald, 1925 Macdonald, 1926 Macdonald, 1927 Macdonald, 1928 Macdonald All known directories now included. Added to the Library: Life in Newport and Wormit in 1906 - from the Tayside Annual 1907 Life in Newport and Wormit in 1907 - from the Tayside Annual 1908 Notable dates in local history - from the Tayside Annual 1908
1 May 2015	Added: More Directories: 1895 Clarke, 1917 Macdonald, 1918 Macdonald, 1919 Macdonald, 1921 Macdonald, 1923 Macdonald, 1929 Macdonald, 1930 Macdonald, 1931 Macdonald, 1933 Macdonald, 1934 Macdonald, 1935 Macdonald
1 April 2015	Added: More Directories: 1915 Macdonald, 1916 Macdonald, 1936 Macdonald, 1937 Macdonald, 1938 Macdonald, 1939 Macdonald, 1940 Macdonald
1 March 2015	Added: More Directories: 1909 Macdonald, 1910 Macdonald, 1913 Macdonald, 1914 Macdonald, 1941 Macdonald
1 February 2015	Added: Valuation Roll: 1885-6
1 January 2015	Added: More Directories: 1903 Macdonald, 1904 Macdonald, 1905 Macdonald, 1906 Macdonald, 1907 Macdonald, 1908 Macdonald, 1911 Macdonald To the Library: Talk on the History of Newport by ex-Provost Forrest, 1966
2 December 2014	Added: More Notes on the Newport Town Council Minutes: 1941/42 - 1955/56. This completes the Notes on the Town Council Minutes.
1 November 2014	Added: More directories: 1885 Macdonald, 1891-2 Macdonald, 1897-8 Macdonald, 1898-9 Macdonald, 1899-00 Macdonald, 1900-1 Macdonald, 1901-2 Macdonald, 1902-3 Macdonald, 1912-3 Macdonald, 1942-3 Macdonald Results of the general search now lead directly to the relevant pages, you no longer have to do each individual search again. Overall search added to Old Parish Register Baptisms and Marriages pages.
2 October 2014	Added: More Notes on the Newport Town Council Minutes: 1929/30 - 1940/41, including Gas Statistics (1925-1949)
1 September 2014	Added: More Notes on the Newport Town Council Minutes: 1919 - 1928
1 August 2014	Added: More directories: 1949-50 Macdonald, 1957-8 Macdonald, 1963-4 Macdonald, 1969 Macdonald, 1970 Macdonald More Notes on the Newport Town Council Minutes: 1904 - 1912
8 July 2014	Added: More directories: 1884 Macdonald, 1896 Slater, 1899 Slater, 1907 Slater, 1911 Slater, 1915 Slater, 1921 Slater, 1928 Kelly This completes the Kelly and Slater Directories. There are some Macdonalds directories still to be added.
1 June 2014	Added: More directories: 1960, 1962, 1966, 1968 This completes the Dundee Directories. There are some Slaters and Macdonalds directories still to be added.
5 May 2014	Added: More directories: 1930-31, 1932-33, 1938-39, 1970, 1972 More Notes on the Newport Town Council Minutes: 1897-98, 1899-1900, 1900-04
5 April 2014	Added: this Updates & Corrections page. Directories: Correction - some 1920/21 entries were appearing as 1906 entries. This gave the unfortunate impression that people who had not been born were living in houses that had not been built. Directories: Correction - 1923/24 Church Officers were listed as Chemists.
2 April 2014	Added: More directories: 1936-37, 1950-51, 1952-53, 1956-57, 1957-58 Notes on the Newport Town Council Minutes: 1912-19, 1956-57, 1959-62
1 March 2014	Added: More directories: 1923-24, 1927-28, 1928-29 A list of local men who signed up as Special Constables, 1914 - 1920 More texts in the library: Some old Trophies The Building Trade - from The Dundee Yearbook, 1893 - 1900 The general search now searches all individual text pages too.
1 February 2014	Added: More directories: 1940-41, 1941-42, 1947-48, 1948-49 More texts in the library: Constitution of the Comerton Children's Home Schoolmaster's return to the Education Select Committee 1838
1 January 2014	Added: The library: Library contents, major published sources, links to other sites Minister's report to the Poor Law Inquiry, 1844 Index to Neish's History of Newport Maps: Map index, links to maps on other sites Forgan parish boundary; maps from directories 1903-1949; map of 19th century feuing areas
1 December 2013	Added: More directories: 1903 Slater, 1933-34, 1953-54, 1963, 1973 Improved search options on directories page
5 November 2013	Added: More directories: 1897-98, 1898-99, 1903-04, 1905-06, 1907-08, 1908-09, 1931-32, 1937-38, 1951-52, 1967, 1971 More old street names Corrections to valuation rolls
1 October 2013	Added: 1891 census
1 September 2013	Added: 1851 census Link to Births and Marriages 1855-1875 - link now removed Improved printed output
8 August 2013	Added: More directories: 1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1926-27, 1935-36, 1955-56, 1965 1871 census
15 July 2013	Added: 1901 census first draft of a property location page
17 June 2013	Added: More directories: 1900-01, 1901-02, 1902-03 1881 valuation roll 1881 census
21 May 2013	Added: 1841 and 1861 censuses

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