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This project - to transcribe and key into computer the returns of the 1851
Census for all the parishes of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and
Wigtownshire - was begun in 1990 and undertaken by the Friends of the Archives
of Dumfries and Galloway and other volunteers, as listed
below*.
KEY: DMS = Dumfriesshire
KBT = Kirkcudbrightshire
WGT = Wigtownshire
The number at the end of each entry is that of the household within each
enumeration district (eg 4/3 means the 3rd household visited in enumeration
district 4).
* "Friends" and others involved : Mrs Margaret Bold, Mrs
Jan Donowho, Mr John Drummond, Mrs Stella Marrs, Miss Viviennne Orr and Mrs
Betty Paisley; assisted by : Mrs Deirdre Brown, Mrs Sheila Crossthwaite, Miss
Lucy Gibbon, Mrs Margaret Hugo, Miss Andrea Mallaby, Mrs Doreen Morgan, Mrs
Margaret Robinson and Mr Alan Sinclair.
Grateful thanks are due to the Department of the Registrar General for Scotland
and the [former] HMSO for permission to carry out this project.
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