Edinburgh, Scotland, Lord Provost Passports, 1845-1916, sourced from the Edinburgh City Archives, is a collection of 17,112 handwritten records.
Passports from Scotland before 1916 are rare.
Records, typically for business travellers or the wealthy, may include the following information:
- Person’s name
- Residence
- Date of residence
- Spouse’s name
- Names of next of kin (or reference)
- Relationships to next of kin (or reference
- Destination (often just “continent”)
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