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Bute Genealogy
 
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"BUTESHIRE. The Islands of Bute, Arran, Great and Little Cumbray (or Cumbrae), Holy Isle, Pladda, and Inch-Marnoch, compose this shire, which comprises 225 square miles of land, or 143,997 acres..According to the returns presented to Government in 1871 the population of the shire was 16,996"
from Slater's Directory of Scotland, Volume II, 1878

 Genuki - Bute
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Buteshire GenWeb
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Archives and Libraries
 
Argyll and Bute Council Argyll and Bute District Libraries - List of Holdings
Bute Message Board
post and read about Bute genealogy with other researchers
Local Genealogy Societies & Groups
Cyndi's List - Bute
largest private collection
of genealogy links on the web
 
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More Bute Genealogy Record Sources

many of these sites can provide source records of ancestors:
 
600 Million Name UK Database
search 600 million UK (including Scotland) records in over 60 individual databases
Births, Deaths and Marriages for Buteshire,
inlcuding Including the Isles of Arran, Bute, Cumbraes, Holy Isle, Inchmarnock and Pladda
due to emigration, Bute now has a massive off-island population,
many of whom still like to keep in touch with their spiritual homeland
War Memorials
Roll-of-Honour - Bute
Bute war memorials and rolls of honour
 
General Register for Scotland - Scotlands People Database
Pay Per View - Government index of Scottish births and baptisms 1553-1904,
marriages 1553-1929 , deaths 1855 - 1954 and censuses 1871- 1901
UK Electoral Rolls
search over 100 million people in UK electoral rolls
Cemeteries
links to cemetery transcriptions here
 
Censuses
FreeCen - Bute
1841-1891 Census transcriptions by volunteers
1851 Census - Bute
a 2% sample of 1851 Census for Bute - zip file (try it, you may be lucky!)
 
 
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