Scotland, Newspaper Death Reports & Obituaries

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Search for your Scottish ancestors’ death report and obituary in these newspaper reports. Discover more about your relative’s life, while searching these publications you may be able to find out the date of their death and the name of their spouse or parents.

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What can these records tell me?

Each record includes a transcript and the original newspaper announcement. The amount of information listed varies, but the records usually include a combination of the following information about your ancestor:

  • Name
  • Age
  • Birth year
  • Death date
  • Spouse’s name
  • Parents names
  • Periodical
  • Publication date
  • Page number
  • County

Discover more about these records

Explore this collection of newspaper death reports and obituaries to unearth interesting or undiscovered stories about your ancestors’. Discover how the events were originally reported and reveal fascinating details about the world in which your ancestors lived.

Death reports and obituaries were paid announcements usually written by a family member and sent to the newspaper. It would have been a cost to the family to have a notice printed in a newspaper.

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Newspapers included in this collection are the following:

Aberdeen Evening Express

Aberdeen Press and Journal

Ayr Advertiser or West County Journal

Courier & Advertiser

Dumfermline Saturday Press

Dumfries and Galloway Standard

Dundee Advertiser

Dundee Courier and Daily Argus

Dundee Evening Telegraph and Post

Dundee Perth and Cupar Advertiser

Edinburgh Evening News

Inverness Advertiser

Inverness Herald

Inverness Journal & Northern Advertiser

Northern Ensign & Weekly Gazette

Stirling Observer

The Aberdeen Journal

The Scots Magazine

The Scotsman

The Shetland News

The Shetland Times