Search Scotland, People of Dundee & Forfarshire (angus) 1550-1799
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- Source – this field may contain an abbreviation. A full list of abbreviations is available below.
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Below is a list of the abbreviations found in these records and the meaning for each.
AA - Angus Archives, Restenneth
ACB - Admiralty Court Book, 1557-1562, [SRS.1937]
AMW- Accounts of the Masters of Works, [Edinburgh, 1957]
ASW - Aberdeen Shore Works Accounts, 1596-1670
BCB - Dundee Burgh and Head Court Books
BCP - Bamff Charters and Papers, 1232-1703, [Edin.1915]
BL - Burgh Laws of Dundee, [London, 1872]
CW - Charters, Writs, of the Burgh of Dundee 1292-1880,
CCW - Charters of the Corporation of Weavers [1881]
CRB - Convention of Royal Burghs
CRBD - Charters Writs of Royal Burgh of Dundee. [1880]
DBR - Dundee Burgess Roll
DCA - Dundee City Archives
DCW - Dundee and the Civil Wars, 1639-1660, Dundee, 2007
DD - Dundee Delineated, 1822
DHR - Dundee Hammermen Records
EB - Roll of Eminent Burgesses of Dundee, 1513-1886, Dundee, 1887
ER - Exchequer Rolls of Scotland
GLB - Glover Craft Lockit Buik ms
HOD - History of Old Dundee, A Maxwell, 1884
LC - Laing Charters, Edinburgh University
MD - Mariners of Dundee, Dundee 2006
MHD - Municipal History of Dundee, Dundee, 1873
NIT - The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee
NRK - Nederlands Rekeningen in de Tolregisteren van Konigsberg , 1588-1602, P H Winkelmen, s’Gravenhage,
1971
OD - Old Dundee prior to the Reformation, Alexander Maxwell, 1891
PBB - Port Book of Boston , Lincolnshire
RGSS - Register of the Great Seal of Scotland RPSS = Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland
SHS - Scottish History Society
SSNE - Scots in Scandinavia & Northern Europe, Steven Murdoch
STR - Sound Toll Register
TR - Should Auld Aquaintance …, Thomas Riis
WB - The Wedderburn Book
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