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|    MB to john    |
|    Re: Addresses of manses . . .    |
|    07 May 18 10:32:09    |
      From: MB@nospam.net              On 03/05/2018 09:19, john wrote:       >       > Ancestry has British Phone Books 1880-1984. A search with an Event in       > the 1940s Location Inverness and Keyword Manse gives results but you       > will need to look at each directory page to get the address itself.              I use the phone books a lot but the search system is very poor.              It insists on a surname so I can't see how you can search just on       keyword "manse".              Ancestry have some issues of Crockford's but latest is 1932 and it is       the Anglican church which probably means they have the Scottish       Episcopal church but not the Church of Scotland.              Crockford's also have a website but not sure what you can search.              Ancestry have the CoS Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae but again older       editions though might give a clue to manse locations.              The newspaper archive might give some references to manses and incumbents.              1940s might not be too difficult because it is in more recent years when       many manses have been sold and the church bought a smaller house.              Another source will be the Valuation Rolls on ScotlandsPeople, I think       they have an issue in the 1930s free.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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