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Excise Officers in Scotland
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Alastair | Report | 3 Mar 2007 16:25 |
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My GGGrandfather and his father-in-law were Excise Officers, GGGF John Ramsay in Rothes, Dunbar and Edinburgh in the 1840s and 1850s, and his FiL Colin Chisholm in Kirkintilloch, where his children were baptised in 1816-1824. Does anyone know of any records (www or archives) for the Scottish Excise service - ideally personnel records, but I'd also be interested to know what categories of tax they were expected to collect, etc. John Ramsay is in the 1841 census in Rothes, & that was a couple of years after the start of the Glen Grant distillery there, so he probably had to help collect tax on the whisky. But many other things were also taxable - salt, textiles,windows, etc - I;d like a clearer idea of when these taxes came and went. |
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ErikaH | Report | 3 Mar 2007 16:28 |
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Have you tried googling? Any relevant sites should show up there........... Reg |
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Mhairi Queen of Scots | Report | 3 Mar 2007 16:28 |
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This is the web address for the National Archives of Scotland online catelogue website www.dswebhosting.info/nas You could check to see if they hold any of the excise records. Other than that i would try googling. Mhairi |
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