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)

Volumes

8,13,18