The Dundee Directory (1922-1923) - Searchable PDF & Surname Index | Dundee, Angus & North Fife Genealogy

Break through your early 20th-century Scottish genealogy brick walls in Dundee, Broughty Ferry, Lochee, Angus (Forfarshire), and North Fife. Originally compiled and published in 1922 by James P. Mathew & Co. of Caxton House, Cowgate, The Dundee Directory for 1922–1923 is a massive, 1,192-page historical census substitute documenting over 28,000 households, tradespeople, mill workers, shipmasters, clergy, and rural farmers immediately following the First World War and the 1921 Scottish Census. Restored and enhanced by Fairbairn's Crests, this every-word searchable digital edition includes a newly compiled Historical Introduction, an exact Printed-to-PDF Page Offset Guide, and a comprehensive Alphabetical Surname & Parish Index.

What's Inside This Enhanced Fairbairn's Crests Digital Edition:

• 1,192 High-Resolution, Every-Word Searchable Pages: Complete original scan (984 main directory pages + 188 pages of illustrated interwar Dundee trade advertisements and 5 historical town plans) paired with a clean OCR text layer for instant Ctrl+F / Cmd+F searching.
• Dundee General Alphabetical Directory (pp. 161–556): Thousands of heads of household, business owners, widows, clerks, engineers, and textile workers across Dundee, Broughty Ferry, West Ferry, Lochee, and Downfield, complete with occupations and exact workplace and home (h.) addresses.
• Street-by-Street Tenement & Householder Directory (pp. 557–799) + Registration District Key (pp. 19–34): Reconstruct entire neighborhoods stair-by-stair and instantly identify which of Dundee's 6 statutory Civil Registration Districts (St Mary & St Peter, St Clement, St Andrew, Lochee, Mains, or Monifieth West) an ancestor lived in.
• Suburban & Coastal Burgh Directories (pp. 885–963): Complete standalone residential, municipal, and commercial directories—plus original folding street plans—for Monifieth, Carnoustie & Barry, Newport-on-Tay, Wormit, Gauldry & Balmerino, and Tayport.
• 15-Parish Rural Farmers & Crofters Directory (pp. 964–984): Full listings of farmers, crofters, estate grieves, blacksmiths, and schoolmasters across Auchterhouse, Duntrune, Fowlis Easter, Invergowrie, Kingennie, Liff & Benvie, Longforgan, Lundie, Mains & Strathmartine, Monikie, Murroes, Newbigging, and Tealing.
• Civic, Ecclesiastical, Military & Maritime Lists (pp. 45–160): Full rosters of Town Councillors, Justices of the Peace, Parish Councils, Nine Incorporated Trades, clergy and session clerks across every Presbyterian, Episcopal, Catholic, and Nonconformist kirk, Territorial Army officers (4/5th Black Watch, Highland R.F.A., R.G.A.), and every vessel and master registered at the Port of Dundee.
• NEW Fairbairn's Crests Front & Back Matter: Includes our newly written Historical & Genealogical Introduction, Gaelic/Scots Spelling Variant Guide (M' / Mac / Mc), Deterministic Page Offset Table, and Automated Alphabetical Surname & Place Index.

Historical Overview: Post-WWI Dundee & Tayside in 1922–1923

Few periods in Scottish urban history were as turbulent or transformative as the years 1920–1923 in Dundee. Home to 168,217 residents at the 1921 Census, "Juteopolis" was navigating the aftermath of the Great War, an unprecedented global textile slump, and the historic September 1920 amalgamation of its legendary family jute empires—Cox Brothers of Lochee, Gilroy, Grimond, Bell, Sandeman, and Walker—into Jute Industries Ltd. At the same time, the city was expanding outward with pioneering garden-suburb housing estates at Logie, Stirling Park, Hospital Park, and Taybank, opening the gift of Caird Park, and launching the Eumaeus from the Caledon Shipyard.

Because statutory Scottish census records after 1921 remain closed to the public, city and county directories from the 1920s are the single richest primary source for tracing parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents between the wars. Whether your family worked in the flax and jute mills of Lochee and Stobswell, sailed aboard the steamers of the Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company, practiced law in Reform Street, or farmed in the Carse of Gowrie and Braes of Angus, this volume places them at an exact street address and occupation in 1922–1923.

Surnames & Families Indexed in This Volume:

Abbot, Adam, Adams, Adamson, Aitken, Alexander, Allan, Allen, Allison, Anderson, Andrew, Andrews, Anton, Archer, Armstrong, Arthur, Bain, Baird, Balfour, Band, Bannerman, Barclay, Barnet, Barnett, Barrie, Batchelor, Bathie, Baxter, Beaton, Beattie, Beedie, Bell, Bennet, Berry, Beveridge, Birrell, Birse, Bisset, Black, Blair, Blyth, Boase, Boath, Bonar, Bowden, Bowie, Bowman, Boyack, Boyd, Boyle, Braid, Brand, Bremner, Briggs, Brodie, Brough, Brown, Bruce, Bryson, Buchan, Buchanan, Buist, Bulk, Burgess, Burke, Burnett, Burns, Burry, Butchart, Butter, Caird, Cairncross, Cairns, Caithness, Calder, Cameron, Campbell, Cant, Cargill, Carmichael, Carnegie, Carr, Carrie, Carswell, Cathro, Chalmers, Chapman, Chisholm, Christie, Clark, Clarke, Cochrane, Cockburn, Colville, Connelly, Constable, Conway, Cook, Cooper, Couper, Couttie, Coutts, Cowan, Cox, Coyle, Crabb, Crabbe, Craig, Craik, Crawford, Cree, Crichton, Crighton, Croll, Crowe, Cruden, Cruickshank, Cumming, Cunningham, Curr, Cuthbert, Cuthill, Dargie, David, Davidson, Davie, Dawson, Deas, Dempster, Deuchars, Dewar, Dick, Dickie, Dickson, Doig, Don, Donald, Donaldson, Dorward, Douglas, Dow, Downie, Drummond, Dryden, Duff, Duffus, Duguid, Dunbar, Duncan, Dundas, Dunn, Durkie, Duthie, Easson, Edinburgh, Edward, Edwards, Elder, Elliot, Ellis, Eraser, Ewen, Fairweather, Falconer, Farquhar, Farquharson, Fenton, Fenwick, Ferguson, Fergusson, Fernie, Ferrier, Fettes, Findlay, Finlay, Fisher, Fitzgerald, Fleming, Foggie, Foote, Forbes, Ford, Forrest, Forrester, Forsyth, Fox, Fraser, Fullerton, Fyfe, Fyffe, Gall, Galloway, Gardiner, Geekie, Gellatly, Gibb, Gibson, Gilchrist, Gillies, Gilroy, Glass, Glen, Goodfellow, Gordon, Gorrie, Gourlay, Gow, Gowans, Graham, Grant, Gray, Green, Gregory, Greig, Grewar, Grieve, Grubb, Guild, Guthrie, Haggart, Halley, Hamilton, Hardie, Harley, Harris, Harvey, Hay, Heggie, Henderson, Hendry, Henry, Herd, Heron, Hill, Hogg, Hood, Howe, Howie, Hunt, Hunter, Husband, Hutcheson, Hutchison, Hutton, Hynd, Imrie, Inglis, Ingram, Innes, Ireland, Irons, Irvine, Jack, Jackson, Jamieson, Jeffrey, Johnston, Johnstone, Jolly, Jones, Kay, Keay, Keddie, Keill, Keiller, Keir, Keith, Kennedy, Kerr, Kidd, Kiddie, Kilgour, Kinnear, Kirk, Knight, Kydd, Laburn, Laing, Laird, Lamb, Lamond, Langlands, Latto, Lawrence, Lawrie, Lawson, Learmonth, Lee, Leighton, Leitch, Leslie, Lindsay, Livingstone, Longair, Lorimer, Lowden, Lowe, Lowson, Lumsden, Lyall, Lynch, M'Call, M'Culloch, M'Donald, M'Dougall, M'Ewan, M'Farlane, M'Gill, M'Glashan, M'Gregor, M'Intosh, M'Intyre, M'Kay, M'Kenzie, M'Kinnon, M'Lagan, M'Laren, M'Lean, M'Lennan, M'Leod, M'Mahon, M'Millan, M'Nab, M'Naughton, M'Nicoll, M'Pherson, M'Rae, M'Walter, MacEwan, MacLean, Macdonald, Macdougall, Macfarlane, Macgregor, Macintosh, Macintyre, Mackay, Mackenzie, Mackie, Maclagan, Maclaren, Maclennan, Macleod, Macnaughton, Macpherson, Macrae, Main, Maitland, Malcolm, Mann, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Mathers, Mathewson, Mathieson, Matthew, Maxwell, Mechan, Meek, Meldrum, Melville, Menzies, Methven, Middleton, Millar, Miller, Milne, Mitchell, Moir, Mollison, Moncur, Moonie, Moore, Morgan, Morris, Morrison, Mortimer, Morton, Mudie, Muir, Munro, Murdoch, Murphy, Murray, Myles, Nairn, Napier, Neave, Neill, Neilson, Neish, Ness, Nicholson, Nicol, Nicoll, Niven, Norrie, Ogg, Ogilvie, Ogilvy, Parker, Paterson, Paton, Patrick, Patterson, Pattullo, Patullo, Paul, Pearson, Peat, Peddie, Peebles, Pennycook, Peters, Petrie, Philip, Phillip, Phillips, Philp, Phin, Pirie, Powrie, Prain, Pratt, Pringle, Rae, Ramsay, Rattray, Rea, Reid, Reilly, Rennie, Reoch, Richardson, Ritchie, Robb, Robbie, Roberts, Robertson, Rodger, Rollo, Rose, Ross, Roy, Russell, Rutherford, Salmond, Samson, Sandeman, Saunders, Scott, Scrimgeour, Scrymgeour, Sellars, Sharp, Shaw, Shearer, Shepherd, Sim, Sime, Simpson, Sinclair, Skinner, Slidders, Small, Smart, Smith, Soutar, Souter, Spalding, Spark, Speed, Spence, Stalker, Stark, Steel, Steele, Stephen, Steven, Stevenson, Stewart, Stirling, Stirton, Stiven, Stott, Strachan, Stuart, Sturrock, Sutherland, Suttie, Swan, Sword, Tait, Tasker, Taylor, Thompson, Thoms, Thomson, Thornton, Tindal, Todd, Tosh, Tough, Tullis, Tulloch, Turnbull, Tyrie, Urquhart, Valentine, Walker, Wallace, Watson, Watt, Webster, Welsh, Westwood, White, Whitton, Whyte, Wighton, Wilkie, Will, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Winter, Winton, Wishart, Wood, Wright, Yeaman, Young, Yule.

Parishes, Burghs, Townships & Settlements Indexed in This Volume:

Abernyte, Angus, Arbroath District, Auchterhouse, Baldovan, Baldovanfield, Balgay, Balmerino, Balmuir, Balnuith, Baluniefield, Barnhill, Barry, Benvie, Birkhill Feus, Blackness, Bridgefoot, Broughty Ferry, Buddonness, Bullionfield, Camperdown, Carnoustie, Carse of Gowrie, Chapelshade, Clepington, Craigie, Cupar District, Denhead of Gray, Downfield, Dryburgh, Dudhope, Dundee, Duntrune, East Newport, Fairmuir, Ferry-Port-on-Craig, Fifeshire, Forfarshire, Forgan, Fowlis Easter, Gauldry, Gotterstone, Hawkhill, Hilltown, Hospital Park, Inchture, Invergowrie, Kellyfield, Kingennie, Kinnaird, Kirkton of Mains, Law, Liff, Lochee, Logie, Longforgan, Lundie, Magdalen Green, Mains, Maryfield, Mill of Mains, Monifieth, Monikie, Muirhead of Liff, Murroes, Mylnefield Feus, Nethergate, Newbigging, Newport-on-Tay, Overgate, Panbride, Panmure, Perthshire, Pitempton, Pitkerro, Rosebank, Scotscraig, Seagate, St Andrews District, Stirling Park, Stobswell, Strathmartine, Taybank, Tayport, Tealing, Wallacetown, Wellbank, Wellgate, West Ferry, Westgreen, Westhall, Wormit.