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From: "Kay Williams" <>
Subject: [AYR] House numbering and church location Saltcoats
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:06:08 -0000

Dear Deborah and friends,

Houses would not necessarily be numbered. As a research student I did some work using the Scottish Valuation Rolls (listing the local authority rateable value of each property and produced annually). Even where properties were numbered, this could and did change between valuation rolls for what was quite clearly the same property. If memory serves me right, there were also number differences between the roll and the Census. Where there were tenements, the number applied to the entry to several dwellings. Each door would have a plate with the householder's name on. I lived in a flat like this in Dundee in the 1980s and I expect this is still the case. (Note that in Scotland a tenemented property was a block of flats or apartments, where in England a tenemented property generally meant the flat or apartment.)

The location of the Free Church in Saltcoats can clearly be seen on the Ordnance Survey map for 1860 (Grid Ref: 224500,641500). You can download this from the Old Maps website http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ or alternatively from their list for the county of Ayrshire http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/10ayrs561/10ayrs561gazS.htm

Best wishes, Kay

Dr JK Williams, Edinburgh.

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