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From: Gavin Bell <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] returning to Boddoms
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:29:19 +0100
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Jim wrote:

>After reading about the Poll Books. Would anyone know if these books are
>also available for Banffshire. More preciously for Inveravon and Kirkmichael
>covering the years between 1750 and 1780.
>

I've already responded to this enquiry on another List, but to avoid
building up any false hopes, I will repeat:

No. The survival of the 1695/6 Poll Books for Aberdeenshire is a
fortunate but one-off historical accident. I have never heard that
similar documents for any other county have survived. And while there
were similar "Poll Taxes" in the some of the later years of the 17th
century, I have never heard that details of the returns of any of them
have survived.


Gavin Bell

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