Civil Service Archives

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:00 am

I wonder if anyone knows if the Civil Service, Edinburgh, might hold records of former staff and if so, is there a website that is relatively easy to negotiate or is there an address for an archive I could contact?

I have a family member who passed the Civil Service Edinburgh exam in 1907 after working as a pupil teacher for two years at Invergarry School. She did not marry and neither did her two siblings, so I am wondering if I would be considered eligible to ask questions about her?

Any advice welcomed

Lorna

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:44 am

Hello Lorna,

You might get some info from the Edinburgh Gazette. I’m not really sure, but I think that Civil Service appointments, promotions, transfers, retirements & dismissals etc. would be listed there.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/

They appear to have recently given the site a makeover & I’ll have to relearn how to use it. On first try I think I prefer the old one. I’m not too sure about sorting results etc.

Hope this helps,
Alan

LATER - You could try searching for 'teachers' on the Scottish Archives Network (SCAN) and see what turns up.
http://www.scan.org.uk/aboutus/indexonline.htm

STILL LATER - If things get desperate try contacting the school. They should know where their old records are.
http://www.scottishschoolsonline.gov.uk ... ghland.asp

Alan

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:16 am

Thank you Andrew.

I will try Edinburgh Gazette site. I have been up to Invergarry and searched the school log for the period, in Inverness Library. It was surprisingly helpful about the family, possibly because they seem to have been rather good pupils and their achievements were mentioned. Otherwise most of the comments regarded the number of children absent because of the tattie howking and on shoots, the severe weather, the visits of the attendance officer and the local landowner's wife and the poor teacher forced to record whether the education officer thought he/she was good, bad or indifferent!

Seems the school grant was on a sliding scale according to results

I am hopeful of finding where Mary worked and I believe she was in Perthshire for a time and then Greenock. Having found the family grave up north I am trying to tie up some loose ends, before laying this little family to rest, in my mind.

Thank you very much for your interest and help.

Regards

Lorna