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21 City Square, Dundee DD1 3BY, Scotland, UK.
(Callers use 1 Shore Terrace)
Tel: +44 (0) 1382 434494 Fax: 434666
Email: archives@dundeecity.gov.uk
Genealogy Unit Email: Registrars@dundeecity.gov.uk
The pre-Reformation Hospital or almshouse in Dundee was on the site of the
present Dundee Contemporary Arts centre in the Nethergait, and a plaque on the
surviving boundary wall commemorates this fact. A lot of charter evidence
survives in the archives, and the surviving funds after the Reformation were
administered by the Hospital master. Records of the Dundee Royal Infirmary from
1798, together with other hospitals, are with the Tayside Health Board records
with Dundee University Archives. A link to their site can be found on the links
page of our website.
The Logie poorhouse of Liff & Benvie Parish, which dealt with the Lochee
area, was later incorporated within Dundee Combination parish and then became
the West Poorhouse. The site was under the Logie School, later Harris Academy
Annexe, Blackness Road, now again due for demolition and development. The Dundee
Combination Poorhouse on combination with Liff & Benvie became the East
Poorhouse, later known as The Rowans old peoples home before demolition in the
1970s. It stood in Molison Street. The minute books of Dundee Parochial Board
and Dundee Parish Council prior to 1930 document expenditure. Two registers of
inmates for the East House have survived, covering the years 1856-1878 and
1903-1908. Some years have been indexed by volunteers.
Yours sincerely
Iain Flett
Dundee City Archives
Page updated August 06, 2007
by Rossbret
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