Scotland, Edinburgh St Cuthbert's Census 1790

This early Scottish census listed the names of each of the head of the household and within each family unit the number of parents, children, lodgers, and servants. Then each category was separated into male and female.

• Name

• Title / status

• Year

• Abode

• Parish

• Place

• County and country

• Total persons

• Parents (male)

• Parents (female)

• Children (male)

• Children (female)

• Servants (male)

• Servants (female)

• Lodgers (male)

• Lodgers (female)

• Notes

Lodgers may have been a person paying to stay at the house or a visiting family member. Also, the servants were not always domestic servants but may have been apprentices.

The original census record can be found at the National Records of Scotland and has been transcribed by The Scottish Genealogy Society.

• When you search for the family name, we recommend that you use the name variant option. In many cases, the Scottish family name was anglicised, for example, Thomsons became Thompson.