Down and Out in Scotland

Down and Out in Scotland: researching ancestral crisis is a genealogical guide written by Chris Paton. We are used to using birth, marriage and death records to explore the history of previous generations of our family but other records can also provide valuable information. In this guide published by Unlock the Past, the author introduces us to records that provide information about people in the past encountering hard times.

Chapters include:

• Family events and relationships - illegitimacy; foundlings, orphans and adoption; marriage, bigamy and divorce; homosexuality; and death
• Law and order - the Kirk; the Crown; franchise and burgh courts; criminal prosecution; murder; additional courts; police and prison records; transpotation; execution
• Poverty - the Old Poor Law; the New Poor Law; the records
• Debt - put to the horn; debts upon inheritance; cessio bonorum and sequestration
• Medical problems - hospital records; asylums; suicide; accidents
• Them and Us - the Covenanters and the Killing Time; the Jacobite rebellion; the expulsion of the Gael, the vote
  

Other books in this series by Chris Paton include Discover Scottish church records, Discover Scottish land records, Discover Scottish civil registration records and British and Irish newspapers.