Angus, Scotland Genealogy: Difference between revisions

[[Image:Scotland-angus.png|thumb|left]]Angus (formerly Forfarshire) is a maritime county in the east of Scotland.  It is bounded on the north by the counties of Aberdeen and Kincardine, on the east by the German Ocean, on the south by the Firth of Tay, and on the west by Perthshire.  It is about 38 1/2 miles in length and 37 1/2 miles in extreme breadth, comprising an area of 840 square miles or 537,600 acres.  The county or area was anciently called Angus after the brother of King Kenneth II to whom it was granted by the king after his victory over the Picts.  It was later called Forfarshire after the county town of Forfar.  [Apparently the name changed back to Angus in 1950.]  

Many census records have been indexed by surname. Some indexes cover one parish (and will be listed in the Wiki on the parish page) and some indexes are for the county as a whole. The Family History Library has county-wide census indexes for Angus for [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1195300&disp=1841+census+surname+index%2C+the+county+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1841] and [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=748020&disp=1881+census+of+Scotland+%5Btranscription%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1881].  See the parish pages for other census indexes.  

== Maps  ==

[Return to [[Scotland Old Counties pre 1974 and New Counties post 1974|county list]].]