Montrose Library
214 High Street
Montrose
DD10 8PH
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Montrose Library holds a collection of books and ephemera highlighting all aspects of Montrose past and present.  Many other areas of Angus are also represented. There is a microfilm viewer, microfiche reader and a photocopier for public use.

Old Parish Registers (OPR’s) are available on microfilm for every parish in Angus. A detailed list of holdings is available.

The Census for 1841 - 1891 for every Parish in Angus is available on microfilm. It is not indexed.

The International Genealogical Index (IGI) for Scotland is available in all full time libraries.

Newspapers

Voters Roll

Lists of Montrose voters can be found within the Montrose Yearbooks and in Oliver & Boyd’s Edinburgh Almanac. Angus & Mearns Supplement, which is held in Forfar Library.

Valuation Rolls

Angus Archives at the Angus Local Studies Centre holds Valuation Rolls for Montrose after 1902.

Directories

Monumental Inscriptions (M.I.’s)

Pre 1855 Gravestones in Angus - ed. A. Mitchell

St. Cyrus Kirkyard (Nether & Upper Kirkyards) at 80.929.5

Maps

The Library holds a collection of Ordnance Survey maps.

Indexes

+Craftsmen from the Montrose Yearbooks

Obituaries from the Montrose Yearbooks 1884 - 1899

*Original documents in Montrose Museum

+Duplicate in the Angus Archives, Montrose Library

Photographs

Angus Archives at the Angus Local Studies Centre holds a collection of original photographs of Montrose. Montrose Library holds the entire coll

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