Robert Scot Skirving
1821–1900
Farmer. Farmed at Camptown, Haddington, East Lothian, 1851 and 1861. Lived in Edinburgh, 1871, 1881 and 1891. Author of several tracts on the labour question in Scotland.
Sources
BLC
Census returns of Scotland 1851 (The National Archives of Scotland: Haddington 3B/5), 1861 (Haddington 13/7), 1871 (Edinburgh St Cuthberts 69/4), 1881 (Edinburgh St Andrew 80/19), 1891 (Edinburgh St Mary 97/8)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 1 May 2015)
NUC
Scotland old parish register births 703/00 0030 0009 Athelstaneford (Scotlandspeople.com, accessed 1 May 2015)
Bibliography
BLC: The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975. 360 vols. and supplement (6 vols.). London: Clive Bingley; K. G. Saur. 1979–88.
NUC: The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols.). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81.
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