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Wigtownshire Free Press Announcements for
Births, Marriages, & Deaths

Transcribed by Diana Henry and Compiled by Randy Chapple
Web Update: February 2006

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The Wigtownshire Free Press, now known as the Stranraer & Wigtownshire Free Press, has been published since 1843.

Diana Henry's herculean efforts transcribing the announcements represents a breakthrough for those who cannot access the archived copies of the actual paper, viewable only through fiche at the Ewart Library in Dumfries or regional libraries at Stranraer, Newton-Stewart, Wigtown, Dalbeattie, Lockerbie, Georgetown (Dumfries) and Annan. Prior to this transcription, researchers could refer to an index for the papers, which provides the scant information of year, month and date of the issue for the surname reference. Additional heartfelt thanks go to Randy Chapple for the hours spent compiling the transcriptions into the following useful indeces.

There is only one entry per listing for males.

Females may have multiple listings:

• one listing if only the married name is given.
• two listings if the married name is listed along with what appears to be a probable Maiden Surname
• and very rarely, three listings if there is a married name, maiden name and first marriage listed.

We recommend checking for middle names in female death records, as occaisionally it is difficult to interpret whether an additional name is a middle or maiden name.

As not all years have been transcribed, this is a a work in progress. [Click here] to see which fiche have been transcribed.

Acknowledgement: The Wigtownshire Pages are grateful to Diana Henry for her tireless efforts transcribing these notices, and Randy Chapple for the many hours spent compiling the transcriptions into indices.

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When searching the indeces, please note that M' has been used for Mc or Mac.

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Abbreviations found within the transcription

• Curt = Current = current month
• ult = ultimo = last month
• inst = instant = this month
• prox = proximo = next month
• penult = penultima = 2nd last month
• W.S. = Writer to the Signet

Caution: Despite our best efforts, transcription by nature is prone to omisions and errors.

Found an error? Email Randy Chapple.